The sign was a reference to Clinton labeling half of his supporters a “basket of deplorables”, a comment she later said that she regretted.
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Donald Trump said that Hillary Clinton’s “bodyguards” should disarm themselves because Clinton supports gun control during a rally in Miami on Friday. When Trump took cameras on a hotel tour, but wouldn’t allow producers who would ask questions, all of the major networks refused to use the footage, seeing it as a publicity stunt.
Clinton was quick to respond, saying that Trump’s news conference about Obama’s birthplace was a “disgrace”, and her Republican rival had expressed “zero regret” for years of “pushing a racist conspiracy theory”. Take their. and let’s see what happens to her. “It would be very risky”, he added.
“Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy”, the Republican said.
The first lady, previously dubbed “the closer” for her effectiveness as a campaign surrogate during her husband’s presidential campaigns, was at one point interrupted by chants of “four more years” as she talked about the bittersweet feelings she is experiencing as her husband’s final term in office draws to a close.
But the Clinton campaign had a quick reaction.
Spokesman Robby Mook released a statement saying Trump “has a pattern of inciting people to violence”.
Earlier in the day, during an event at his newly-opened hotel in Washington, D.C., Trump acknowledged that President Obama was, in fact, born in the United States.
The Secret Service declined to comment on the remark, CNN reported.
The former McClatchy Washington Bureau Chief who revealed today there was a Clintonworld link to birtherism went into more detail in speaking to his former publication.
He continued: “By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”. I don’t know. Maybe he doesn’t want that.
So Trump has floated the idea of Clinton disarming her guards on many occasions before. “I finished it”, Mr Trump said.
Trump, who has the endorsement of the National Rifle Association, eventually took to Twitter to say the Secret Service had not contacted him about the remarks. President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period.
Later, while addressing a black women’s symposium in the nation’s capital, Clinton said Trump is feeding into the “worst impulses, the bigotry and bias” that lurks in the nation, and that he owes Obama and the American people an apology for his role in the so-called “birther” movement.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the James L. Knight Center on September 16, 2016 in Miami, Florida.
“All of the concessions that Barack Obama has granted the Castro Regime were done through executive order, which means the next president can reverse them -and that is what I will do, unless the Castro Regime meets our demands”, Trump said at the rally.
“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”.
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The GOP nominee previously said he was “fine” with the Obama administration’s decision to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba, though he was critical of the deal that was made and stressed the need for a better one.
