Donald Trump’s inflammatory comments about “Second Amendment people” have rippled across the continent and now, veteran journalist Dan Rather says people should not stand for it. Addressing his supporters during a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina on Tuesday, Trump seemingly insinuated that the only way to stop Clinton would be to have her assassinated.
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Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, issued a one-sentence statement in response to Trump.
“Yesterday we witnessed the latest in a long line of casual comments by Donald Trump that crossed the line”, Clinton told supporters in Des Moines, Iowa.
Gun rights, which have long stirred strong emotions in America, have been a particularly potent issue in the 2016 presidential campaign as violence has convulsed some USA cities.
It gives space to Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman and MSNBC TV host, who calls for his party to ditch Mr Trump.
A generic Republican would have been a major upgrade over Trump earlier in the campaign; less than 100 days from Election Day, the sheer volatility involved in introducing a new variable into the campaign might scare people off.
Other top Republicans, including Senator Susan Collins of ME this week, have disavowed Trump but said they can not back Clinton.
The U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment guarantees a right to keep and bear arms.
During the event, he said falsely that Clinton “essentially wants to abolish the Second Amendment”.
“What it is is there’s a tremendous power behind the Second Amendment”.
Sands says he thinks most people don’t take Trump’s comments seriously, and that his many controversial comments are more attention-seeking than actual threats. But in subsequent interviews, Trump never did the one thing which would have put an end to the story-condemning violence and saying he misspoke.
She said: “Words matter, my friends”.
Democratic lawmakers expressed shock about Trump’s comments.
The furor erupted as a series of polls showed Trump losing ground to Clinton in the presidential race amid a portrayal of him by his critics as too mercurial, angry and nasty to be president.
“A bloody line has been crossed that can not be ignored”.
The Clinton campaign slammed Trump’s message. In truth, he represents no single constituency besides foreign policy elites based in Washington, D.C. And, while there can be no doubt that Clinton is a hawk, the decision to chase after Kissinger, who is anathema to the party’s left-wing and any person with a sense of morality, further alienates progressives. “I know he is a responsible man, a very, very successful man, a man who achieved a great deal and can be trusted much better than Hillary Clinton, who has been found to be extremely careless with the use of national security information”.
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“Once the words are out there they can not be taken back”, Rather wrote in his post.
