Republican candidate Donald Trump has appeared to suggest assassinating Hilary Clinton to stop her from reaching the White House. “Although the second amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know“, said Trump. 50% of Trump supporters say they vote for Trump “enthusiastically”, compared to 63% of Clinton voters who vote for her “enthusiastically”.
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Many Democrats sided with the Clinton campaign, who called the remarks risky.
Reiner suggested Trump should now be disqualified from running for president, saying, “It’s not as though there haven’t been political assassinations in our country, there have been”. The attacks on opponent and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton continued, but this time Trump used a comparison of their policies to do it. It’s too bad for Trump and his supporters that his comments related to what Hillary Clinton would do after being elected and nominating Supreme Court justices that gun owners would not like.
“Clinton is good for United States versus Donald Trump”, he said in broken English, adding that he was invited because he’s a “member” of the
Democratic Party.
One group supporting Trump – the Rebuilding America Now PAC led by Florida Governor Rick Scott – said it was rolling out an anti-Clinton ad on cable and local television stations in Ohio, Florida and North Carolina this week.
The US Secret Service, responsible for both Clinton’s and Trump’s protection, said it was aware of what Trump had said but declined to say whether it planned to investigate.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the liberal Democrat who has tangled frequently with Trump online, said on Twitter that Trump “makes death threats because he’s a pathetic coward who can’t handle the fact that he’s losing to a girl”.
The Clinton campaign immediately expressed its outrage at Trump’s remarks. Buzzfeed News checked in with Trump supporters after the rally to hear their reactions.
By day’s end, Trump was drawing criticism on several fronts, another chapter in a campaign marked by bitterness and partisanship.
“I think that my temperament has gotten me here”, said Trump in an interview with Fox Business Network. As the North Carolina crowd started booing, Trump went on: “Although the Second Amendment people – maybe there is, I dunno”.
An anti-Trump super PAC “Democratic Coalition Against Trump” said the FBI should investigate the Republican nominee.
He later said he had been referring to the power of the vote.
Michael Hayden, a former Central Intelligence Agency director who was among 50 Republican national security experts to denounce Trump in a letter, told CNN, “If someone else had said that said outside the hall, he’d be in the back of a police wagon now with the Secret Service questioning him”.
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Retired four-star general Barry McCaffrey also spoke out against Trump, declaring him unfit for the Oval Office and saying it was “remarkable how little he knows” about national security. Susan Collins announces she will not support Donald Trump, calling him “unworthy of being our president”.
