“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks”, he said.
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“Words matter, my friends”, the former U.S. secretary of state said a rally in Des Moines, Iowa. But I’ll tell you what: “that will be a frightful day”.
Last week, Burr distanced himself from Trump’s criticisms of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the Pakistani-born parents of Army Capt. Humayun Khan, who was killed in Iraq in 2004. He told Fox News that “there can be no other interpretation”.
“Every single one of these incidents shows us that Donald Trump simply does not have the temperament to be president and commander-in-chief of the United States”. With a seat now open on the nine-justice US Supreme Court, he said that Clinton would appoint a jurist who would weaken the Second Amendment. “Nobody who is seeking a leadership position, especially the presidency, the leadership of the country, should do anything to countenance violence, and that’s what he was saying”.
“The big part of the rigged system is the press itself, because they can take a little story that isn’t a story and make it into a big deal”, said Trump.
“We may not agree on everything, but this is not a normal election”, Clinton said.
“As a young man said to me in Florida the other day, ‘Friends don’t let friends vote for Trump, ‘” she added.
The firestorm will do little to allay Republican leaders’ concerns about Mr Trump’s inflammatory remarks.
The best moves for Mr Trump’s detractors may be withholding their endorsements, refusing to raise money for his campaign, throwing their weight behind Clinton or holding out hope that he voluntarily quits. “But Mr. Trump is making me very nervous”.
“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment”, he said to a crowd of supporters in the Trask Coliseum at North Carolina University in Wilmington. A day earlier, ME senator Susan Collins became the latest to declare she would not vote for her party’s nominee, explicitly pointing to his “constant stream of cruel comments”.
Republican Party rules and state laws would make it hard at this juncture to replace Trump on ballots ahead of the Nov 8 election.
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The former secretary of state called out Mr Trump for his recent row with the family of a fallen American Muslim soldier, which the military refers to as a Gold Star family.
