The appearance at a rally in Wilmington, N.C., renewed Republican fears that Trump can’t be prevented from sabotaging himself.
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“It is not that her voters are in love with Secretary Clinton – they just dislike her less than they disdain Trump”, said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
Trump implied at the rally that should Clinton be allowed name Supreme Court justices that the second amendment would be abolished.
The U.S. Secret Service, responsible for both Clinton’s and Trump’s protection, said it was aware of what Trump had said but declined to say whether it planned to investigate.
Michael Hayden, a former Central Intelligence Agency director who on Monday was among 50 Republican national security experts to denounce Trump in a letter, said on CNN, “You’re not just responsible for what you say”.
He added that this latest bout of negative media attention only means that “most of the press is in the tank for Hillary Clinton”.
Trump’s ambiguous comments alarmed some political observers as to whether he was threatening her life or calling for increased political activity.
“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment”, said Trump. “There are some things you should not even joke about”, Duprey said. I’ve pointed out that I’ve always supported the party’s nominee in the past, and that I will continue to work very hard for Republican candidates across the country because I believe that retaining control of the House and Senate is essential, regardless of who is elected president. “The last few weeks have made it clear that Donald Trump poses a grave threat to this nation”.
Democratic lawmakers expressed shock about Trump’s comments. Pat McCrory to disavow Trump’s comments and rescind his endorsement of the NY real-estate mogul.
But the National Rifle Association said Trump was “right” and encouraged members to vote on Election Day.
“It’s an assassination threat, seriously upping the possibility of a national tragedy and crisis”, he tweeted.
Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the center-right American Enterprise Institute, called Trump’s comments “a reckless statement from a reckless maniac”.
“A little money can go a long way”, Tameron said.
Introducing Trump at a later rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani accused the news media of taking the remark out of context to help Clinton, a former USA secretary of state, get elected.
The Clinton campaign did not hesitate to express its disdain for the remark and let it be know they were not confused by what Trump was suggesting by invoking the Second Amendment. “And this year, they will be voting in record numbers”.
Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook said, “This is simple – what Trump is saying is risky”.
The NRA backed him up on the statement saying the only way to protect the Second Amendment was to vote for Trump.
And the Republican presidential nominee seemed to follow up this statement by suggesting Clinton, or her judges, be shot. Complete uberdrivel. The burps and burbles of internet sleuths who could not be bothered to so much as Google a man’s name in their quest to build a conspiracy theory suggesting that his death was all Hillary Clinton’s fault.
“That is what this election is about: protecting our individual right to keep a firearm in our home for protection and making sure that there isn’t one set of rules for political elites like Hillary Clinton and a different set for the rest of us”.
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John Podhoretz, of the New York Post, tweeted: “That Second-Amendment folks want to shoot politicians they don’t like is, let me just say, not a classic Republican theme”.
