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Photographer

(1,142 posts)
5. Okay...
Tue Aug 9, 2016, 09:14 PM
Aug 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/us/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton.html

Donald Trump Suggests ‘Second Amendment People’ Could Act Against Hillary Clinton

WILMINGTON, N.C. — Donald J. Trump on Tuesday appeared to raise the possibility that gun rights supporters could take matters into their own hands if Hillary Clinton is elected president and appoints judges who favor stricter gun control measures to the bench.

At a rally here, Mr. Trump warned that it would be “a horrible day” if Mrs. Clinton were elected and got to appoint a tiebreaking Supreme Court justice.

“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd began to boo. He quickly added: “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.”

The Trump campaign released a statement insisting opaquely that Mr. Trump had been referring to the “power of unification.”

“Second Amendment people have amazing spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power,” said Mr. Trump’s spokesman, Jason Miller. “And this year, they will be voting in record numbers, and it won’t be for Hillary Clinton, it will be for Donald Trump.”

Mr. Trump’s remark came a day after his campaign expressed satisfaction with his delivery of a prepared economic speech in Detroit and called it evidence of a new level of discipline.

Reacting to Mr. Trump’s statement on Twitter, aides to Mrs. Clinton expressed immediate horror, suggesting that even by Mr. Trump’s standards, the comments were jarring. /snip

madinmaryland

(64,931 posts)
7. See my reply #6. I thought you were saying someone on DU had said that.
Tue Aug 9, 2016, 09:22 PM
Aug 2016

Thanks. I am equally upset with what tRump said today. It is completely irresponsible.



 

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
2. Disconcerting reaction by American public at best. Again. Maybe it just hasn't soaked in yet or
Tue Aug 9, 2016, 09:09 PM
Aug 2016

everyone is in shock.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
3. It's just crazy uncle Donnie. You know he ain't been right since that mule kicked em in the head
Tue Aug 9, 2016, 09:09 PM
Aug 2016

I think the bigger thing is that this moron is whom the repukes picked. Now when they pretend to distance themselves from him it's laughable.

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