Hillary Clinton has said that Donald Trump is “inciting violence” after he allegedly encouraged members of the gun lobby to assassinate her.
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In her first reaction to the furor Mrs Clinton told a rally in Iowa: “Words matter my friends”.
Rather questioned whether or not Trump had actually broken the law with his comment, asking “If any other citizen had said this about a presidential candidate, would the Secret Service be investigating?”
Clinton’s campaign now has a website for Republicans and political independents to sign up to pledge their support, listing 50 prominent Republicans and independents who have endorsed her so far, including Meg Whitman, a high-profile Republican fundraiser and chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
At a rally in North Carolina on Tuesday, Trump said that if Clinton were elected and appointed left-wing judges to the U.S. Supreme Court, there was nothing people could do.
“There is tremendous political power to save the Second Amendment, tremendous”, the NY businessman said.
“Hillary wants to essentially abolish the second Amendment”, Trump said in the rally, referring to the US Constitution’s clause that enshrines the right of Americans to carry firearms and weapons.
“There is tremendous political power to save the Second Amendment, tremendous”, the NY businessman said.
Rather, 84, took to Facebook to scold Trump for his comments.
Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who said she won’t vote for either party’s candidate, said on CNN’s “New Day” Wednesday that she did not think Trump was inciting violence, but that he has only himself to blame for people leaping to that conclusion because of his consistent “stream of inappropriate and reckless comments”.
There was understood to have been more than one conversation between agents from the elite agency responsible for presidential security and Trump’s campaign officials. But I’ll tell you what: “that will be a awful day”.
The comment was highlighted by United States media and social media users, who expressed concern that Mr Trump was advocating, in jest or not, that Mrs Clinton or the judges could be shot.
The Clinton campaign said neither of the emails involved her personally.
The National Rifle Association on Wednesday said it has placed a $3 million TV ad buy in OH criticizing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on the Second Amendment.
Trump Texas fundraising co-chairman Gaylord Hughey called the interpretation of his remark as condoning violence “ridiculous” and “ludicrous”.
“I spent nearly a year and a half trying to create a pathway for an independent to run for president, and I think that the system is very much rigged in favor of one Democrat nominee and one Republican nominee”.
The firestorm will do little to allay Republican leaders’ concerns about Mr Trump’s inflammatory remarks.
“I guess there’s a scenario in which this president could pick five supreme court justices, and if you pick two that are left, left, left, it’s going to be a disaster for our country”, he told supporters today.
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“Sometimes I think he has good intentions, but his mouth gets overloaded”, said McDaniel, a relocation director for a real estate company in Louisiana.
