Trump made the comments as he criticized Clinton’s gun-control stance saying she wants to “destroy your Second Amendment”, a position the Democratic presidential nominee hasn’t taken.
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“When I hear folks saying that they don’t feel inspired in this election, well let me tell you, I disagree – I am inspired”, Mrs Obama said. Take them and let’s see what happens to her.
“Take their guns away”. Okay? It’d be very unsafe.
During a much looser rally in Miami on Friday night, Donald Trump, veering way off his scripted remarks, seemed to make another veiled threat against his opponent Hillary Clinton.
Trump’s comment came as he criticized Clinton over her support of gun control measures.
“Hillary wants to abolish – essentially abolish the Second Amendment. They want solutions, and they want better lives – not more petty attacks from failed and discredited politicians”, he said. “All the Second Amendment people – maybe there is”.
While some backers of Clinton’s primary campaign against Obama eight years ago raised the question of Obama’s birthplace, Clinton herself has long denounced it as a “racist lie”. “Imagine a president who sees someone who doesn’t look like him and doesn’t agree with him and thinks, ‘That person must not be a real American'”.
“Period”, said Trump, reversing himself on a controversy about Obama´s birth that the Republican helped launch but that had become a distraction to his White House bid.
The Trump campaign defended those comments as a call for increased political activity, but the Clinton campaign said that Trump’s comments were “dangerous” and irresponsible for a presidential candidate.
Fallon also tweeted that either Trump campaign manager Kellyane Conway thought assassination jokes were a good idea, or Trump was “off his leash”.
But he went on to accuse Clinton of starting the so-called birther controversy – President Obama’s citizenship conspiracy theory.
Asked in an interview with Irish TV, as reported by Buzzfeed, if he believes the president was born in the USA now finally after producing his long-form birth certificate, Trump said, “Well, I don’t know – did he do it?” Because here is what we know: That being president isn’t anything like reality TV.
Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller then put out a hilarious and blatantly false statement, not even in Trump’s name, that said Clinton had started the birtherism and Trump had gotten the birth certificate to put an end to the “ugly” (!) episode.
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“We’ve got other business to attend to, I was pretty confident about where I was born”, the president said. And that’s what Trump was trying to do, delegitimise the president, not disagree with him.
