The former Secretary of State is in favor of tighter gun controls, although she reassured supporters before the Democratic National Convention back in July that “I’m not here to take away your guns”.
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During his visit to South Florida Friday, Donald Trump met with Haitians in Little Haiti, and at a rally in downtown Miami he cheered Cubans and made promises to Venezuelans.
The Republican candidate told Cubans that if he was elected November 8th, he was going to reverse President Barack Obama’s decision to reestablish relations with the Communist island. He then quipped a sarcastic remark, saying “I think that [Clinton’s] bodyguards should drop all weapons”.
“Take their guns away”. Right? I think they should disarm. “Okay, it would be very unsafe”. By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks.
The Secret Service has declined to comment on Trump’s Friday night remark, spokeswoman Catherine Milhoan said. Speaking at a rally in North Carolina, the Republican nominee erroneously said his opponent wants to “abolish, essentially, the Second Amendment”. This wasn’t the first time he appeared to incite violence against his rival, as he has done so in a speech last August claiming that “second amendment people” could stop her from appointing Supreme Court justices once she’s elected. The New York businessman’s admission came hours after his campaign spokesman released a statement saying Mr Trump now believed Mr Obama was born in the US.
The Trump camp later said he was referring to action through the ballot box, not violence.
Trump’s remarks came just hours after the real estate magnate was forced to reverse his long-held position that President Barack Obama was not born in the U.S., the BBC reported.
At the end of a campaign event Friday, Trump declared that “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period”.
Among those, he said, would be religious and political freedom for the Cuban people and the freeing of all political prisoners.
Mrs Clinton said Mr Trump’s birther campaign was founded on “an outrageous lie” and there was “no erasing it in history”.
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Trump also said the US has a broader obligation to stand with oppressed people – a comment that seems at odds with his “America first” mantra. “But the people are great”.
