Correspondent Lisa Desjardins has our report. The mines will be gone if she gets elected.
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While also avoiding mentions of gun rights supporters, Trump focused instead on the state of manufacturing in the USA and regulations on the coal industry.
“Hillary wants to abolish. the Second Amendment.by the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. I think it’s because you’ve been beaten so badly as an industry”, Trump said. There can be no other interpretation. “Very rarely do you see politicians mentioning the second amendment, violence, and a candidate in the same sentence”, he told CTV News Channel from Washington. But the dishonest people – what it is, there is a tremendous power behind the Second Amendment. It’s a political power.
And Erica Smegielski, daughter of Dawn Hochsprung, the school principal who died in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, said Trump was “distasteful and disgusting”.
More recently, Trump grabbed headlines by saying he wanted to retaliate against speakers attacking him at the Democratic National Convention and “hit them back so hard”. Even House Speaker Paul Ryan, celebrating his own primary victory last night, suggested the nominee explain. This is a strong powerful movement the Second Amendment.
A more likely scenario would be a replay of the 1996 presidential race, when the Republican Party essentially deserted nominee Bob Dole, who was badly trailing President Bill Clinton, to focus on congressional races. I think it’d be very interesting. You should never joke about something like that.
In her first reaction to the furor Mrs Clinton told a rally in Iowa: “Words matter my friends. And if you are running to be president or you are president of the United States, words can have tremendous consequences”, the former USA secretary of state told those attending a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa.
“I will absolutely do three debates”, Trump told Time magazine. Every single one of these incidents shows us that Donald Trump simply doesn’t have the temperament to be president and commander in chief of the United States.
Ms Clinton’s campaign called the remark “dangerous”.
Trump’s Republican supporters have downplayed the remarks, suggesting he was joking, or that left-leaning media outlets have intentionally inflated the story.
It’s led to a new line from the Democratic nominee.
Mr. Trump continued to grab the lion’s share of headlines with his political opponents saying his offhand comment that the “Second Amendment people” could stop Mrs. Clinton appeared to be a veiled threat against her.
Meanwhile, Clinton was enduring a fresh round of criticism over her emails from her time as secretary of state, which have been a thorn in her side and hurt her trustworthiness among voters.
In one exchange, a Clinton Foundation official asked top aides to Mrs. Clinton to set up a meeting between a State Department official and Gilbert Chagoury, who donated between $1 million and $5 million to the foundation, according to its disclosures.
Trump is talking about the difficulties facing the coal and other energy issues.
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He didn’t interpret Trump’s comments as a call to arms, but rather a case of his words coming out differently than his thoughts.
