“Look, this guy is coming pretty close to the edge here”, the anonymous, former official told Time Magazine.
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Trump has been accused of a making an “assassination threat” against Clinton at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, after riffing on the next president’s power to appoint supreme court justices.
“By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”, he said. Spokesman Jason Miller said Trump’s remarks were about the “amazing spirit” of Second Amendment advocates, “which gives them great political power”.
A US Secret Service official confirms to CNN that the USSS has spoken to the Trump campaign regarding his Second Amendment comments.
If Trump had referred to a group other than Second Amendment supporters on Tuesday, it’s unlikely that anyone would have taken these extreme interpretations seriously.
“As a young man said to me in Florida the other day, ‘Friends don’t let friends vote for Trump, ‘” she added.
“Donald Trump lost me a long time ago”, Shays told MSNBC in an interview.
The Democratic Coalition Against Trump today reached out to high-level contacts in the Washington, D.C. field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to voice concerns about Donald Trump’s call for violence against Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and to argue that Trump should be arrested for attempting to incite political violence. Contrary to Trump’s remarks, Clinton has made support for the Second Amendment a key piece of her usual campaign speech, though she supports stricter gun control measures. John Negroponte, former director of national intelligence under President George W. Bush, and former Republican US Representative Chris Shays of CT were among those that announced their support on Wednesday.
“They show the Clinton Foundation, Clinton donors, and operatives worked with Hillary Clinton in potential violation of the law”.
Joe Scarborough, the Morning Joe host and a former Republican congressman from Florida, said “a bloody line has been crossed”, and the Republicans should find a way to dump Trump.
Top surrogate Rudy Giuliani said on Wednesday that Trump responded to the firestorm by calling Clinton a word that “begins with a b”.
Several news organizations have rebuked Donald Trump for his comments during a rally on Tuesday, with many interpreting his comments as an insinuation to violence against rival Hillary Clinton.
Then Trump seemed to suggest, however, that gun-owners could stop her from doing so.
“It must be the responsibility of all Americans – from Donald Trump himself, to his supporters, to those who remain silent or oppose him – to unambiguously condemn these remarks and the violence they insinuate”, Arizona Rep.
There is no place in American politics for this kind of disgusting rhetoric. Of course, Trump didn’t actually say anything nasty whatsoever. Trump mocked 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney after Romney criticized him, saying the former MA governor would have “dropped to his knees” for Trump’s endorsement four years ago.
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Almost one-fifth of 396 registered Republicans in a Reuters/Ipsos August 5-8 poll released on Wednesday want Trump to drop out of the race for the White House and another 10 percent “don’t know” whether the Republican nominee should or not.
