Trump said, “Could you imagine if I said that I short-circuited?”
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Overall sentiment on social media posts on Trump’s remarks was more negative than positive, at a ratio of 2.5 to 1, according to the social media analytics firm Zoomph. “What Trump is saying is risky”.
Secondly, examining Trump’s statement in light of the full text, rather than the isolated excerpt, shows that his concern is with the danger gun rights and gun rights supporters will face if Clinton gets to pick Antonin Scalia’s replacement. “This is a tremendous political movement”. “This is a political movement. a strong and powerful movement, the Second Amendment”. Even reporters have told me. But – but I’ll tell you what.
However, Trump’s willingness to even suggest such a thing opened the floodgates of anger on social media among many people who interpreted his remarks as being about the assassination of a U.S. president or, perhaps, of a Supreme Court Justice.
Trump campaign senior communications adviser Jason Miller released a statement shortly after comment, swatting down the idea that the mogul was suggesting any form of violence.
Donald Trump on Tuesday tentatively agreed to three scheduled TV debates with Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton, despite his displeasure over two being held opposite primetime National Football League games.
But Michael Hayden, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and NSA, said: “If someone else had said that outside the hall he’d be in the back of a police wagon now with the Secret Service quesioning him”.
Three small words – “maybe there is ” – uttered by Republican Donald Trump as an off-the-cuff comment have shaken up the 2016 US presidential campaign.
Hayden added: “You’re not just responsible for what you say”. The others would either pick another candidate, would not vote, didn’t know or refused to answer.
“That was more than a speed bump”. She said this is an epidemic that will only get worse. (As polls now suggest could well happen.) He’s argued before that Supreme Court picks are a key reason to support him. “#NeverHillary“, the NRA tweeted from its official account.
The Second Amendment to the US Constitution is the one which Republicans believe gives ordinary Americans the right to own and use guns, including military-style rifles used in mass shootings in Florida and Sandy Hook.
Clinton’s campaign manager accused the billionaire of trying to incite violence.
A Democratic senator who has regularly trolled Trump during this campaign referred to the polls Tuesday.
“They spin out that what he meant by that was that it was a joke, and that what he meant by that was that they would kill her”, Giuliani said as the crowd dropped to a deafening silence, before erupting in boos. “And that’s really why I’m here”, Clinton said. There is now an opening following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia and Republicans have refused to vote on President Obama’s nominee.
“If she gets to pick her judges- nothing you can do folks”.
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When an interviewer from WNCN, a North Carolina CBS affiliate, asked if the comments were condoning violence, Trump said, “Oh no, no”. Clinton supports some new restrictions on gun ownership, but has not advocated overturning the amendment.
