“By the way, and if she gets to pick – if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the 2 amendment people, maybe there, is I don’t know”, Trump said. I just don’t want you to be shot by someone who shouldn’t have a gun in the first place.
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When third-party candidates are included in the race in Florida, Clinton and Trump were tied at 43%.
“This is simple-what Trump is saying is risky”, said Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook in a statement.
Donald Trump has been so suspiciously quiet lately that you nearly started to wonder if someone had taken away his twitter account and enrolled him in a class on how not to say outrageous things.
The Republican presidential nominee made the comment on Tuesday at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina.
“This is a political movement. I mean, give me a break”.
Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday that there “were on Hillary Clinton’s private server, there were conversations among her senior advisers about this gentleman”.
“It’s called the power of unification – Second Amendment people have wonderful spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power”.
In a speech in Wilmington, North Carolina, Trump talked about what would happen if his opponent Hillary Clinton won the presidency in November; she would get to make the picks for the U.S. Supreme Court justices.
The former head of the Central Intelligence Agency, retired Gen. Michael Hayden, told CNN’s Jake Tapper: “If someone else had said that said outside the hall, he’d be in the back of a police wagon now with the Secret Service questioning him”.
Numerous signatories had declined to sign an open letter disputing Mr Trump’s national security qualifications that was published in March. “You are responsible for what people hear”. “That is a topic that we don’t ever come close to, even when we think we are trying to be lighthearted”. Chris Murphy, who has become one of the loudest gun control advocates in the Senate after his home state of CT was rocked by the Sandy Hook shooting. “It’s an assassination threat, seriously upping the possibility of a national tragedy & crisis”. If @HillaryClinton gets to pick her anti-#2A #SCOTUS judges, there’s nothing we can do. “#NeverHillary”, the group tweeted.
Many people feel Trump was condoning some sort of violence..
Trump’s campaign did not respond to queries about his remark, but at least one person attending the rally appeared to sense the comment was out of bounds.
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So, Trump’s statement perpetuates a myth sometimes put forward by gun rights advocates concerning the efforts of politicians, like Clinton and Obama, to curtail gun violence.
