Photo caption: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the James L. Knight Center, Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, in Miami.
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His appearance, in a sprawling ballroom at Trump International Hotel near the White House, turned into a de facto commercial for his campaign and property, as the major cable news networks aired the full event live in anticipation of comments Trump had hyped for hours.
“I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons”, Trump said. “I think they should disarm”. What do you think? Yes? Yes.
“Take their guns away”. Let’s see what happens to her. Take their guns away. “It would be very risky”. And the crowd goes wild.
Last month, when Trump suggested that “Second Amendment people” could somehow stop Clinton from picking judges, his campaign tried to explain away the comment by suggesting that the “Second Amendment people” in question have “great political power” and “will be voting in record numbers”. Right? Think they should disarm. “But I’ll tell you what, that will be a disgusting day”.
“She goes around with armed bodyguards like you have never seen before”. Let’s check out this tweet he sent later in the day to find out, shall we?
As Politifact has noted, Clinton supports gun control measures, but has said she would still protect the right bear arms.
Another birther who attended the rally, Fermin Vazquez, said of Trump: “He knows the truth, but he’s got to follow the rules to get elected”. “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is”. According to Miller, Trump took up the issue in 2011, pestering President Obama to release his birth certificate.
It’s called the power of unification – 2 Amendment people have awesome spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power.
So Trump has floated the idea of Clinton disarming her guards on many occasions before.
“Heartless hypocrites like the Clintons. want to get rid of guns, and yet they have bodyguards that have guns”, Trump said, calling on the Clintons’ bodyguards to “immediately disarm”.
Clinton’s own camp denounced the statement, with Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook pointing out that Trump has shown “a pattern of inciting people to violence.”, according to The New York Times.
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“Whether this is done to provoke protesters at a rally or casually or even as a joke, it is an unacceptable quality in anyone seeking the job of Commander-in-Chief”, Mr. Mook said in a statement. He finally admitted President Obama was born in the United States, but two of the three things he said in his very short statement were brazenly false (that Hillary Clinton started the birther controversy and that he “finished” it). “For sure he was born in Kenya”, Pedro Almeyda, who attended Trump’s rally in Miami on Friday night, told Politico.
