“I think that [Clinton’s] bodyguards should drop all weapons”.
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“So I think this is part of his entire campaign of bigotry”.
Trump was referring to comments Clinton made at a fundraiser in which she said “you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”. What do you think? Yes?
“Let’s see how they feel walking around without their guns or their bodyguards”, he told the gun lobby group, speaking about Clinton and her Secret Service detail. She doesn’t want guns. “Take their, let’s see what happens to her”.
“It will be very risky”, the billionaire businessman added.
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said Friday’s remarks fall into a pattern of Trump inciting people to violence.
Clinton has called for tighter access to guns, including universal background checks, but has never said she planned to get rid of the Second Amendment.
At that time, Trump said: “Hillary wants to abolish – essentially abolish the Second Amendment”.
But Trump pressed forward Friday with his portrayal of Obama as a president who is treated with less respect than his predecessors, saying leaders of Cuba, Saudi Arabia and China had failed to greet him properly on trips overseas.
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign attempted to dispel rumors that their team started Obama “birther” rumors after Donald Trump pointed the blame their way, but now a D.C. bureau chief is saying they were the source. Kaine said. “And when you look at a series of these comments that he’s making, I do believe it is an (incitement) – or at a minimum, an expression of indifference to whether violence would occur”.
His appearance, in a sprawling ballroom at Trump International Hotel near the White House, turned into a de facto commercial for his campaign and property, as the major cable news networks aired the full event live in anticipation of comments Trump had hyped for hours. Even after President Obama released his birth certificate to quell the conspiracy, Trump continued to tweet and raise questions about Obama’s citizenship.
Her supporters also denounced his comment, saying it alludes to violence against the female nominee. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Phoenix Awards Dinner at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016.
Trump’s meaning was not immediately clear and a campaign spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for an elaboration.
Clinton recently rejoined the campaign trail after taking some time off.
On Friday, Trump ignored reporters’ questions about his abrupt change in stance this week over the place of President Obama’s birth.
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Secret Service agents protect both Trump and Clinton as presidential nominees.
