After doubting Clinton’s stamina and ability to stand and campaign in a hot, crowded room earlier this week, Trump lobbed similar attacks on Friday, saying the president needs to balance different responsibilities. In a tight presidential race, Clinton is hoping that African-Americans turn out like they did for Obama’s two victories when they comprised 13 percent of the electorate. Then, the press turned on him for his “political rick-roll” press conference and for barring reporters from the hotel “press” tour.
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Similarly, it’s doubtful that his latest remark will lose him a single vote.
Trump made false accusations against Clinton and told his supporters that she wants to “destroy your Second Amendment”.
In an interview Friday, Flake acknowledged that Clinton’s use of his words against Trump is “fair” and that he doesn’t begrudge her for it.
“I don’t view myself as cold or unemotional”, she said in her post to the popular website Humans of NY. I think that her bodyguards should disarm, right?
“I think they should disarm immediately”, he said. Yeah. Take their guns away. She doesn’t want guns. When Trump said, “Let’s see what happens to her”, and “It would be very unsafe”, he’s taking things to a new level and talking about the actual result – not just Clinton allegedly putting her money where her mouth is on how guns aren’t safe. “It would be very unsafe”. Contrasting her style and tone with her rival’s, she once again called Trump “a loose cannon” who would put America’s gains at risk. But then to suggest that something should happen to her that can only happen if her Secret Service agents aren’t armed? “Hillary wants to abolish-essentially abolish the Second Amendment”, he said at a North Carolina rally in August. The sign was a reference to Clinton’s labeling half of his supporters a “basket of deplorables”, a comment she later said she regretted. “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know”. Let’s see what happens to her. It’d be very unsafe. The Clinton campaign immediately criticized the remarks, saying they amounted to nothing less than an invitation to commit violence against the Democratic candidate.
On Friday morning, Trump falsely accused Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton of starting the birther controversy, but declined to apologize for building his campaign around the racist lie.
“Whether this is done to provoke protesters at a rally or casually or even as a joke, it is an unacceptable quality in anyone seeking the job of Commander in Chief”, Mook said in a statement.
It’s a reasonable question whether this was an intentional tactic.
He added that the people of Venezuela “are yearning to be free, they are yearning for help”.
No one from the campaign nor the Republican Party - nor the Secret Service, for that matter - has commented on the remark.
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“Part of what makes her so appealing and effective as a surrogate is that she’s relentlessly positive, even when things on the campaign trail get negative”, said Olivia Alair Dalton, Mrs. Obama’s former spokeswoman.
