NEWS BRIEF An uncharacteristically quiet Donald Trump didn’t confront his campaign’s latest controversy during a rally Wednesday-his recent off-the-cuff remarks suggesting gun-rights advocates could prevent Hillary Clinton from appointing Supreme Court justices.
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Clinton, making her first appearance in Iowa since the caucuses six months ago, took the opportunity to make a direct appeal for voters turned off by Trump, building on her new initiative, launched Wednesday morning, aimed at Republican and Independent voters that her campaign is calling “Together For America”. Veteran broadcast journalist Dan Rather, who covered John F. Kennedy’s assassination, called Trump’s comments a “new low” that “crossed a line with unsafe potential”. This media-magnified claim – just like other claims, whether true or not – helps the Democrats’ push their narrative that Trump is too unstable to risk putting in the White House.
Trump has repeatedly bashed his opponent for seeking to abolish gun rights, while Clinton has said she favors tougher gun controls.
Leftists are accusing Trump of trying to incite an attack on Hillary Clinton from “Second Amendment people”.
Around the same time, Trump gave an interview with the New York Times in which he displayed an nearly callous disregard for the traditional role of the United States on the world stage, and in particular within North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. “So if he’s saying “There’s nothing you can do about it, but you people (for) the Second Amendment who are fighting for the right to bear arms, maybe there’s something” – it kind of sounds like a veiled threat to me”.
James Rohrscheib, 74, a registered Republican and retired US Navy officer from Washington state, told Reuters the reality is the November 8 election will be a “tough one”. “And you look at the power they have in terms of votes and that’s what I was referring to, obviously that’s what I was referring to, and everybody knows it”.
Trump’s Republican supporters have downplayed the remarks, suggesting he was joking, or that left-leaning media outlets have intentionally inflated the story.
Plans to publish a letter by 50 former Republican national security officials criticizing Donald Trump were accelerated after a series of comments by the candidate in July sent alarm through much of the party’s foreign policy establishment.
The Clinton campaign swiftly declared Trump’s words to be “dangerous”. “I don’t like her”, said Smith, a 74-year-old retiree who lives in Clearwater, Florida.
Ms. Trudeau said the lower-level people handling open records requests never knew about Mrs. Clinton’s email, but the spokeswoman couldn’t account for why Ms. Mills was aware but didn’t set things right. “I don’t even think Trump thought he would get this far”. Many accused Trump of inciting violence.
At this stage, Hillary Clinton is crushing Donald Trump in the polls. “We were stablemates, and we did very well that night”, Trump said of Russian President Vladimir Putin, sparking waves on the United States political left and right.
A spokeswoman for a group called Direct Action Everywhere said the protester’s intent was to use “disruptive tactics” to draw attention to abuse of animals.
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He also angrily shot down a report by CNN that the Secret Service had spoken with his campaign about the remarks, saying on Twitter that “no such meeting or conversation ever happened”.
