Trump Today: “The Second Amendment People” can “do something about” Hillary Clinton
Trump hits a new low in suggesting that “The Second Amendment” could “take care” of Hillary Clinton should she beat him in the elections and become President.
In a video circulating today from a campaign event in Wilmington, NC, GOP nominee Donald Trump jokes that the “Second Amendment, People,” in other words militantly pro-gun conservatives who themselves own and use guns, might be able to find a way to deal with Clinton selecting Supreme Court justices during her term. This is a fancy way of saying she should be assassinated, and specifically, shot to death by armed citizens.
He should be arrested at once.
So sick of these loud mouthed bellicose macho paranoid fools and their obsession with guns and violence.
Trump jumped the shark a long time ago. We need a new phrase. May I suggest “Trumped the shark”?
I believe Hunter S. Thompson wrote the following (I’m cribbing from an Esquire post) regarding the reelection of Nixon. I’ve taken the liberty of changing the names of the people referenced… This will be gospel a year from now if Trump wins:
This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it—that we are really just a nation of 320 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. The tragedy of all this is that Hillary Clinton, for all her mistakes… understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Donald Trump. Clinton made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Donald Trump does every day of his life, on purpose as a matter of policy and a perfect expression of everything he stands for. Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?
I get that Republucans don’t like Clinton, but to support someone who holds our democracy in such contempt… It is appalling.
I think this fall, if you publicly supported Trump, it will stigmatize you as it would being a member of the KKK, sexual offender, or felon, and your days of future employment will be numbered. At least, all future raises are out of the question. You couldn’t classify it as a political decision by your HR since I would assume most bosses would be aligned to the “old” Republican party or the conservative side of the “new” Democrat; but being a Trump supporter today puts you at the top of your HR’s creepy list.
So quietly start making those lists of your office’s Trump’s supporters names now…
Hillary Clinton today cited the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy during the 1968 presidential campaign to explain why she was remaining in the race despite long odds.
“We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California,” Clinton told the editorial board of a South Dakota newspaper.
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Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement: “Sen. Clinton’s statement before the Argus Leader editorial board was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign.”
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“Earlier today I was discussing the Democratic primary history and in the course of that discussion mentioned the campaigns that both my husband and Senator Kennedy waged in California in June 1992 and 1968 and I was referencing those to make the point that we have had nomination primary contests that go into June. That’s a historic fact. The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator Kennedy and I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation, and particularly for the Kennedy family was in any way offensive. I certainly had no intention of that, whatsoever. My view is that we have to look to the past and to our leaders who have inspired us and give us a lot to live up to, and I’m honored to hold Senator Kennedy’s seat in the United States Senate from the state of New York and have the highest regard for the entire Kennedy family.”
The last paragraph was Clinton’s apology for the statement. Notice how she doesn’t roll back the veiled death threat against Barack Obama.
The most lol-filled conservative reaction to Trump’s assasination statement so far is from Michele Malkin. She is angry that Trump took the focus off the fact that the press was paying attention to some bullshit non-story:
@jason: They still consider the Pulse massacre to be Islamic terrorism rather than anti-gay terrorism.
Also, that other anonymous comment wasn’t me.
I was wondering about that. It seemed pretty GOP troll on its face.
It is the GOP talking points machine at work. Clinton was tone-deaf and opportunistic in that comment, as in she was staying in just in case. And I’m also going to remind everyone that in 2008, death threats against candidate Obama were quite real.
Also… i hate to feed trolls, but one statement points out the possibility of violence and one encourages it. Big difference.