Another day, another not-quite-threat from Donald Trump. “I mean, the point that he was making is that Hillary Clinton has had private security now in her life for the last 30 years, but she would deny the right of law-abiding citizens to have a firearm in their home to protect their own families. Disarm immediately”, Trump said in Miami, according to NBC and other news outlets. “I think they should disarm immediately”, Trump said. “It’s like he thinks that it’s a game, you’re playing a TV show”, he said.
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Asked her bodyguards to drop guns, said “Let’s see what happens”.
At a rally in August in North Carolina, he posited that “second amendment people” could stop her from picking pro-gun reform judges if she was elected to the presidency.
‘Take their guns away; let’s see what happens to her’.
‘It’ll be very risky, ‘ Trump added. This all fits into a pattern of inciting into his supporters the worst fears they can imagine: a president they don’t want stealing away their basic Constitutional rights.
Trump’s remarks came after telling the crowd Clinton wants to “destroy” the second amendment.
Later in the night, Clinton’s Campaign Manager Robby Mook issued a statement.
“Tonight, Donald Trump once again alluded to violence against Hillary Clinton”, said Elizabeth Shappell, spokeswoman for Correct The Record, a pro-Clinton media watchdog group.
The tycoon, who has the endorsement of the National Rifle Association, eventually used Twitter to say the Secret Service had not contacted him about the remarks. “I finished it”, Trump declared Friday in a brief statement at the end of a televised campaign appearance in which he touted his new hotel and his endorsements from military veterans.
Several federal law enforcement officials told CNN there is concern Trump’s rhetoric could lead to a Secret Service or law enforcement officer getting shot or killed.
Mr Trump said at a campaign event in Washington, “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period”.
“If she just was very transparent, even if it is something that’s a chronic disease that’s mildly debilitating, most Americans would have said: ‘Hey, you know what?”
“Hillary Clinton in her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy”.
President Barack Obama too has tried time and again to bring the legislation against easy access to guns in the country, which has a high rate of mass shootings.
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Donald Trump is gaining support among African-American voters – whose enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton is eroding, a tracking poll released Saturday revealed.
