If Hillary Clinton gets elected, I think she’s going to decimate the Second Amendment, if not abolish it, ” Trump said.
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Also Wednesday Trump again defended his remarks about Hillary Clinton and the Second Amendment, which some took as an incitement to violence against the former Secretary of State.
“Donald Trump must end his campaign for the White House in a reckoning with his own madness, while praying that nothing comes of his musing about an assassination of Hillary Clinton”.
“What he meant by that was you have the power to vote against her”, Giuliani said to cheers. Although the Second Amendment people – maybe there is. Seems like a lot, right? “Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate for president, will be getting my vote, not reluctantly, but with a strong conviction she will be a good president”.
“A person seeking to the be president of the United States should not suggest violence in any way”, Mook said. “I am open to all other options”, he said.
Trump’s campaign, however, responded in another communique in which communications director Jason Miller said the mogul was referring to the “power of unification” in his remarks, adding that “Second Amendment people have incredible spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power”.
On Tuesday, a former top Secret Service official told TIME the agency would likely speak with Trump’s campaign about the comments.
The controversy stems from comments Trump made at a political rally in Wilmington, North Carolina on Tuesday.
“You should never joke about something like that”, he said.
Former U.S. Rep. Chris Shays, the last Republican to represent CT in Congress, said Wednesday he’ll be voting for Hillary Clinton in November.
Clinton held a campaign event in Miami, Florida, where four cases of the Zika virus have been reported.
Hours later, Fox News host Sean Hannity told him the media had been “spinning it” differently.
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The campaign denied that inciting violence had been the intent of Tuesday’s remark, and yesterday said there had been no conversations with the Secret Service about it.
