Al Baldasaro, a New Hampshire state representative, is now the focus of a Secret Service investigation for statements he made about the presumptive Democratic nominee. “Something’s wrong there. This whole thing disgusts me”, Baldasaro said, concluding: “Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason”.
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Despite Baldasaro’s belief that Clinton ought to be “shot for treason”, the New York Daily News points out that the Constitution describes treason as “levying war” against the United States and providing “aid and comfort” to enemies. On Tuesday night, the campaign released a lengthy statement that attacked virtually every speaker who addressed the convention that day, including high-profile Republicans such as Mr. Trump and Mr. Christie but also lesser-known politicians at the state and local level.
A Boston-based WRKO radio host, Kuhner is a self-described “conservative nationalist” who often refers to himself as “Liberalism’s Worst Nightmare”.
During the interview, Baldasaro criticized Clinton, as he has in the past, but this time went further.
“McMaster is such a fan of bipartisanship he once stated that ‘we hunt Democrats with dogs down here, ‘” the Clinton campaign said.
“I’m a military man first, and anyone who takes information about our Central Intelligence Agency or Secret Service and people at our embassy and puts it out on a server where anyone can grab it, putting Americans in danger to be killed, should be held accountable”. “You take them from the political appointee side into the civil service side, in order to try to set up… roadblocks for your successor, kind of like when all the Clinton people took all the Ws off the keyboard when George Bush was coming into the White House”.
“Al Baldasaro’s comments that Secretary Clinton should be “put in the firing line and shot” are disgusting, offensive and frighteningly commonplace in the party of Trump”, Buckley said.
Rausch said Trump officials should ask for Baldasaro’s resignation from all campaign activities, and distance themselves from the comments.
“Lock her up” – a message that gets the GOP base riled up but scares everyone else, I think.
“She is a disgrace for the lies that she told those mothers about their children that got killed over there in Benghazi”, he said. Hicks did not respond to a question asking whether Trump would cut ties with Baldasaro.
In a July CNN poll, 34 percent of respondents said Clinton was honest and trustworthy. That was down significantly from 55 percent in March 2014.
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Inside the convention hall here in Cleveland, Christie was followed by retired neurosurgeon and former presidential candidate Ben Carson.
