“I think what we should do is, she goes around with armed bodyguards like you have never seen before”, the GOP nominee said, deviating from his prepared remarks on the teleprompter.
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And for the second time in the presidential campaign, Trump is again raising the specter of violence against Clinton, this time joking about disarming her Secret Service agents.
Clinton’s campaign blasted his comments as “disgraceful”, while Obama himself laughed off the issue, telling reporters he had “no reaction” to Trump’s apparent reversal. Senator Jefferson Sessions (R-Alabama) did acknowledge that the remark “may have been awkwardly phrased”. “Although, the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know”. “So I think that, in addition to calling for them to name judges, we’ll also call them and let their body guards immediately disarm”. They should disarm. Right? Yeah. Take their guns away, she doesn’t want guns. “It would be very risky”.
Robby Mook, Mrs Clinton’s campaign manager, condemned the comments. Clinton finally announced that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia two days earlier. “Take them, let’s see what happens to her”, Trump told supporters at a rally in Miami on Friday.
This is not the first time that Trump has accused Clinton of first raising questions about Obama’s birthplace, an assertion that has been repeatedly disproved by fact-checkers who found no evidence that Clinton or her campaign questioned Obama’s birth certificate or his citizenship. Then, polling the crowd on his just laid out policy, Trump asked, “Right?” Speaking at a rally in North Carolina, the Republican nominee erroneously said his opponent wants to “abolish, essentially, the Second Amendment”.
But weve seen again and again that no amount of failed resets can change who Donald Trump is, Mook added.
“For five years, he has led the birther movement to delegitimize our first black president”, Clinton said Friday, demanding that Trump apologize to Obama.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is protesting what it calls Donald Trump’s “pattern of inciting people to violence”.
In presidential election years, the percentage of black voters eclipsed the percentage of whites for the first time in 2012, when 66.2 percent of blacks voted, compared with 64.1 percent of non-Hispanic whites and about 48 percent of Hispanics and Asians.
“I have been involved in politics one way or another for many years”.
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The comment marks yet another reversal for the Republican candidate, who previously said he supported the idea of normalised relations, but wished the United States had negotiated a better deal. In an October 2011 interview with CNN, Trump said that if “you check out the internet, many people say it is not real”. “If Trump is being less outrageous and less titillating, it means that Hillary Clinton has a better chance to get her own message through and have the election litigated on her own terms”.
