Rivera tweeted that Trump is a longtime friend, but added, “his #SecondAmendmentPeople bullshit was unsafe incitement”.
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He continued: “You know how speeches go”. “And what he meant by that was you have the power to vote against her”. That’s what he was talking about.
It is nearly sad that the Trump campaign is so delusional that they think they can use his remarks to help themselves with voters in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia.
The NRA, which has endorsed Trump, agreed with his explanation.
The former mayor defended Trump some more in the ABC interview. Yes, Donald Trump said something remarkably very bad AGAIN. Clinton led Trump by more than 7 percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday, up from a less than 3-percentage-point lead late last week.
Trump found himself embroiled in yet another controversy on Tuesday after saying at a rally that gun rights activists could act to stop Clinton from nominating liberal US Supreme Court justices – a comment his campaign said was misinterpreted, but that Clinton’s campaign called “dangerous”.
To a torrent of boos from the audience, Mr Trump said: “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the second amendment”.
USA Today says Mr Trump regards the “Second Amendment people” as his “secret weapon” in the campaign, but the Los Angeles Times concludes he is “stuck in a destructive loop of his own making, his words increasingly at odds with his needs” as the campaign enters the final stage.
Ryan reiterated his past statements that Donald Trump would be better for picking Supreme Court justices than Hillary Clinton.
Trump was immediately savaged for the comment he made at a rally in North Carolina and partisans claimed he was inciting someone to shoot Clinton.
Mrs Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook, swiftly responded to Mr Trump’s remarks, stating: “This is simple – what Trump is saying is unsafe”.
Hillary Clinton was quick to reply, tweeting: “A person seeking to be the President of the United States should not suggest violence in any way”. “You have the power to campaign against her”. “I’ve known him for 28 years”, Giuliani said.
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The Secret Service also said it was aware of the remarks.
