Encouraging violence against the Democratic nominee is not new for some supporters and surrogates of the Trump campaign. “This is a tremendous political movement”.
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The 30-second NRA ad, which was paid for by NRA Political Victory Fund, shows the back of a woman who looks like Clinton walking onto a private airplane while what looks to be the US Secret Service surrounds her. “Hillary wants to take your guns away”.
“An out-of-touch hypocrite, she’d leave you defenseless”, the 30-second ad, which will air on cable in battleground states, says as it wraps up. “If he had not so often celebrated violence and wielded dark innuendo against political opponents, minority groups, journalists and others, it would be easier to give him the benefit of the doubt in this case”, it said.
But even some Trump supporters appeared taken aback by the nominee’s comments. I won’t tell you to vote 15 times.
“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks”, he said.
To gin up the crowd, he lied and said that,”Hillary essentially wants to abolish the Second Amendment”, which is something that’s completely untrue.
“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”, he said.
I would add that the person who was responsible for the deaths of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando was not “a Second Amendment person”, but rather an ISIS terrorist.
Trump’s suggestion that “Second Amendment people” – gun owners or those backing gun rights – could stop Clinton from winning the White House and picking new Supreme Court justices was not clearly spelled out, but USA media and social media users quickly expressed concern that Trump was advocating, in jest or not, that Clinton or the judges could be shot. Before his remark about Clinton on Tuesday, he had said Islamic State militants who killed 130 people in France previous year could have been stopped if some of the victims had been armed. Director Rob Reiner slammed the Republican candidate, saying in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, “There are so many horrific things that he says that you become numb to it and think you can’t be shocked anymore, and then he says something like this”.
Elizabeth Warren was quick to wade into the fight.
Clinton herself learned the hard way: In June 2008, shortly before she conceded defeat in her Democratic primary contest with Barack Obama, she defended her perseverance in a way that critics said alluded to the possibility that Obama could be gunned down. The full context of those remarks is quite confusing and resembles the typical kind of rambly jargon Trump falls into when he’s off the teleprompter. Trump compared his approach to taxes, regulation, energy production and the Second Amendment. His campaign later “clarified” that this meant rallying behind Trump and getting the vote out.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Secret Service said the agency was aware of Trump’s remark, but declined to comment further.
Just the day before, in an effort to stem the damage, Trump had given a speech on the economy, delivered from a prepared text and accompanied by suggestions from campaign aides that he was turning a page after a week of self-inflicted damage to his campaign. “What Trump is saying is risky”.
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The worry for Republicans is that Trump’s penchant for the controversial could help cement the gap between him and Clinton in recent polls.
