Republican Donald Trump and his allies are suggesting that rival Hillary Clinton’s emails may be responsible for the death of an Iranian nuclear scientist who was executed for spying for the United States, even though there is no credible evidence of any such link.
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Trump did not elaborate on his meaning.
Breitbart News reported that Trump gave a speech in which he warned that “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment”. By the way, and if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges- nothing you can do folks.
“I think it’s just, you know, steadiness”, Trump told Fox Business.
“Donald Trump might astound Americans on a routine basis, but we must draw a bright red line between political speech and suggestions of violence”, Giffords said in a joint statement with her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly.
Trump then noted the power Clinton would have to nominate justices to the high court.
“It’s called the power of unification – Second Amendment people have wonderful spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power”, said Jason Miller, Trump’s senior communications adviser.
Trump’s campaign, however, responded in another communique in which communications director Jason Miller said the mogul was referring to the “power of unification” in his remarks, adding that “Second Amendment people have unbelievable spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power”.
Trump’s team fired back to say the 70-year-old Manhattan billionaire simply meant that gun rights advocates were a powerful voting force.
In an interview later to a local television channel, Trump refuted such an allegation. I’m a member. If you, we can add, I think the National Rifle Association, we can add the Second Amendment to the justices, they nearly go, in a certain way, hand in hand.
Mr Trump’s intended message was not immediately clear, but lawmakers, former national security officials and other critics expressed concern that he had advocated, possibly in jest, that Mrs Clinton or her Supreme Court nominees could be shot. “Now, is there anybody here that doubts that”. Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said then that neither Trump nor his campaign agree with Baldasaro’s comments.
“So this is very important in November, if you care about your Second Amendment rights, to get out there and vote”.
Within minutes, Clinton’s campaign and an outside group backing her candidacy denounced the celebrity businessman’s remarks as an attempt to incite violence. You have the power to speak against her.
And Trump running mate, Mike Pence, told reporters Tuesday afternoon that Trump “is clearly saying is that people who cherish that right, who believe that firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens makes our communities more safe, not less safe, should be involved in the political process and let their voice be heard”.
It was hardly surprising that critics piled on – from assassination attempt survivor and former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords to CT senator Chris Murphy, whose electorate includes the Sandy Hook school, where 20 children and six staff were massacred in 2012.
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Murphy tweeted: “Don’t treat this as a political misstep. It’s an assassination threat, seriously upping the possibility of a national tragedy & crisis”.
