Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine broke with his running mate Hillary Clinton over her comment that some Trump supporters are “irredeemable”. In Miami on Friday, his riff about confiscating the agents’ guns went further. “I know I speak for not just everyone in this room, but so many tens of millions of Americans”, Clinton said during a pointed speech at the Congressional Black Caucus gala in Washington, D.C., “Mr. President, not only do we know you are an American”. “I knew this was going to happen”, he added. “Take their guns away, OK? They will take that person and they’ll check them”, Trump said. “It will be very risky”, he added.
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Trump’s meaning was not immediately clear and a campaign spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for an elaboration.
4 Trump claimed that the USA under the leadership of President Barack Obama, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “coddled” extremists. A Secret Service spokeswoman declined to comment.
Trump made the statement before city officials had publicly confirmed details of the incident or what caused the explosion, said CNN, nothing that “typically, national political figures use caution when describing unfolding investigations and law enforcement actions”. What do you say to voters who may see this as a reason to consider supporting Trump’s approach to terror and immigration? By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks … “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know”, he said.
Within minutes, the Clinton campaign condemned the remark.
Trump for years elevated false claims that Obama wasn’t born in the United States, raising it repeatedly in interviews and on Twitter.
Meantime there’s plenty of evidence that Trump, beginning in 2011, became the chief promoter of “birtherism” as he considered running for president in 2012.
She also urged a greater role for Silicon Valley in aiding the United States government in tracking terrorists online and countering Isis recruitment and called for measures to build up trust between Muslims and police. In other instances when his words have blown up into full-scale brouhahas, he’s said he either misspoke, the media was out to get him, or, in the case of his suggestion that Russian hackers located “her missing emails”, that he was only being sarcastic.
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Clinton didn’t shy away from taking a harsh tone about the threat of terrorism, saying, “We will defeat the evil, twisted ideology of the terrorists”.
