The Clinton campaign has rejected any accusations, saying in a statement said that none of the emails involved her, but rather dealt with aides who work for her and president Clinton.
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Trump on Wednesday denied a CNN report that the Secret Service spoke with his campaign about his “Second Amendment people” remarks.
Despite Trump’s camp later saying it was a tongue-in-cheek remark others took to Twitter to voice their concern.
Senator Richard Burr said he found Trump’s comment surprising.
Despite only calling for tougher gun laws, Trump has repeatedly accused Clinton of wanting to change the constitution and abolish the Second Amendment, something which could only be achieved via the Supreme Court.
“By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”, said Trump.
Clinton pointed to the remark, which was met Tuesday with condemnation across party lines, as one more reason for Republicans to bail on Trump. And he says the overheated tone of the presidential campaign makes it even less likely Trump would face legal jeopardy.
It comes after the Republican hopeful appeared to hint at gun supporters taking up arms against his rival, Hillary Clinton. “And if you are running to be president, or are president of the United States, words can have tremendous influence”.
Clinton addressed the controversy at a speaking event in Des Moines, Iowa Wednesday.
Accusing the Republican nominee of “inciting violence”, Rather continues: “To anyone who still pretends this is a normal election of Republican against Democrat, history is watching”. The Secret Service investigates all threats against the lives of presidential candidates.
Amid talk of campaign resets, Donald Trump changed scenes today, trading his usual large rally for, first, a small roundtable of coal executives and workers in Southwestern Virginia, and, later, a speech on jobs, especially mining jobs.
An August 5-8 Reuters/Ipsos poll found that almost one-fifth of 396 registered Republicans wanted Trump to drop out of the race and another 10 percent said they didn’t know whether he should give up.
“Give me a break”, Mr Trump said afterwards, insisting he was referring to the power that voters hold.
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