After Donald Trump called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”, New Hampshire state Rep. Al Baldasaro (R), the co-chair of Trump’s state veterans coalition, did his best to defend the candidate’s proposal. Added Baldasaro: “I believe Hillary Clinton committed treason. I want to honor the people with the truth and nothing else”, his nose must have grown a few inches longer after those words left his mouth. When people take confidential material off a server, you’re sharing information with the enemy.
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Baldasaro likened Clinton to Jane Fonda, the actress who famously visited Hanoi as part of her opposition to the Vietnam War. She dropped the ball on over 400 emails requesting backup security.
Baldasaro, a state representative who flirted with a senate run in 2014, gained notoriety as one of Trump’s biggest defenders when the media grilled the candidate in May over the disbursement of money collected during a fundraiser for veterans he had held during a Fox News Republican debate.
“I heard “Lock her up” last night and thought it would be amusing if I went out and bought an orange prison jump suit”, he said.
‘This whole thing disgusts me, ‘ he said.
He’s also calling Clinton a “piece of garbage” for using a private email server while she was President Barack Obama’s secretary of state.
Baldasaro is representing New Hampshire as a Trump delegate at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week.
And on the campaign trail, reports show that Trump supporters have repeatedly called for her death.
But Baldasaro isn’t backing down.
And he told WMUR-TV, a New Hampshire ABC affiliate, that ‘as far as I’m concerned, it is treason and the penalty for treason is the firing squad ― or maybe it’s the electric chair now’.
Earlier in the week, Baldasaro made the controversial remarks on the Jeff Kuhner radio show when asked about Clinton’s role in the deadly 2012 attack on USA embassy facilities in Libya.
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“His constant escalation of outrageous rhetoric is in danger of mainstreaming the kind of hatred that has always been relegated to the fringes of American politics where it belongs”, the spokeswoman told the Globe. “What makes her above the law?”
