PRESIDENTIAL candidate Donald Trump has suggested that his opponent Hillary Clinton could be stopped by his supporters using their gun rights. His comment sounded as if it were conditional on Clinton winning – and on the notion that only Second Amendment supporters could stop her at that point.
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And while Trump did again dishonestly repeat his thoroughly debunked claim that Hillary Clinton wanted to abolish the second amendment, the problem people have is with what he said AFTER THAT.
At a rally in North Carolina, Trump warned a cheering crowd that Clinton was determined to abolish their constitutionally protected right to bear arms.
“Hillary wants to invade foreign countries”, said Trump. “The last few weeks have made it clear that Donald Trump poses a grave threat to this nation”.
But Trump seemed to be going down the path of rocker/NRA board member Ted Nugent, who received a visit from the Secret Service after suggesting extra-legal action against President Obama.
The official said that if they were still working at the U.S. Secret Service, they would contact someone on Trump’s campaign staff to have a conversation about whether the understands the consequences of that rhetoric.
Trump sent Jason Miller, a senior communications adviser, to bail him out of the jam.
Trump’s campaign quickly responded to critics, saying that any suggestion that the billionaire businessman was advocating violence against Clinton was a media overreaction.
There are jokes, and then there’s the stuff that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth.
The Clinton campaign wastes no time condemning the comments.
The Clinton campaign quickly slammed the remarks, with manager Robby Mook saying in statement: “This is simple – what Trump is saying is risky”.
Speaking on CNN, Trump spokesman Katrina Pierson said Trump simply meant “Hillary Clinton is a gun grabber” who will appoint anti-gun Supreme Court justices if she’s elected president. And she’ll do that through judges, through the justices of the Supreme Court.
“It’s called the power of unification – 2nd Amendment people have wonderful spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power”, Miller’s statement read.
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And recently, Trump spoke of a desire to “hit” certain anti-Trump speakers at the Democratic National Convention.
