Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president, made the comment at a NY fundraiser last Friday while detailing her assertion that Trump has “lifted up” racist, sexist, and xenophobic Americans. The Republican candidate portrayed Clinton as out of touch with everyday reality in which some US inner cities are “far more unsafe than Afghanistan” but she doesn’t realize because she “lives behind gates and walls and guards”.
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“I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons”, he said. They should disarm. Right? They should disarm. Right?
Just last month, Donald Trump proposed that “Second Amendment people” could thwart Hillary Clinton if she were to become president. She later regretted saying “half” of Trump’s supporters fell into that category, but said she would continue to call out racist and bigoted rhetoric in the election. Immediately, what do you think? The Republican nominee suggested that she wanted a ban on all guns, which is not the case. Let’s see what happens to her. Take their guns away. Take their – let’s see what happens to her. Take their guns away, OK? “It would be very risky”.
It was the second time that Trump has suggested that violence befall Clinton in relation to her gun control positions, having told a crowd at a meeting of the National Rifle Association in August that there was “nothing you can do” to prevent Clinton from appointing Supreme Court justices if she was elected president, then adding, “Although, the Second Amendment people, maybe there is”.
She’s very much against the Second Amendment. He later said the “dishonest media” misinterpreted his remarks.
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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”, Mook said in a statement. As the Republican nominee, so does Trump; he received it in November 2015.
