Trump Suggests Shooting Clinton, Her Supreme Court Picks, Or Both

[onehandle]

Source: Huffington Post

Donald Trump on Tuesday warned his supporters that if Hillary Clinton were elected president and appointed members to the Supreme Court, there was nothing anyone could do about it – but then added that, given the Second Amendment, maybe there was.

“If she gets to pick her judges ― nothing you can do, folks,” Trump said at a Wilmington, N.C., rally with a shrug. “Although: the Second Amendment, people, maybe there is. I don’t know.”

What Trump was actually suggesting was not clear. However his veterans affairs adviser found himself in hot water when he said that Clinton should face a firing squad over her use of a private email server.

Trump’s campaign did not respond to queries about his remark, but at least one person attending the rally appeared to sense the comment was out of bounds.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-clinton-shoot_us_57aa2f6de4b0ba7ed23dd652

[hibbing]

1. WTFH

This country, I swear. I wish I would have noted the date, but I remember exactly where I was when I was listening to Hannity on the radio saying Obama must be stopped by any means necessary.

Peace

[dubyadiprecession]

57. Oh he does know, he just suggested people supporting the second amendment..

Trump is suggesting that someone out there should shoot hillary. I'm sure some of his supporters are capable of murder. Trump is about anarchy and hannity shares the same mindset.

[PJMcK]

81. It's not about anarchy

Sorry if this sounds didactic, dubyaiprecession. Anarchy, noun, a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority.

Donald Trump is all about authority where he is the one in control. He has stated that he'll effectively throw out the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, ignore the separation of powers and very possibly use nuclear weapons. He really wants to be a dictator and control all the levers of power. If elected president, it's likely he would curtail most of our rights and expand the police militarily in order to enforce his rule. This is not anarchy, in fact, it's quite the opposite.

Sean Hannity, of course, is a jackass and needs a powerful father figure to tell him what to do.

Both of them are idiots.

[forest444]

2. No doubt about it! Humpty Trumpty just fell from the wall.

This is the very thing Sharron Angle did with her call for "Second Amendment solutions" in 2010 (which, thankfully, cost her the race).

[emulatorloo]

11. Yes, that was the moment media realized they couldn't portray her as a credible candidate

any more.

[forest444]

18. Right. This is a MAJOR red line, and exactly what candidates in banana republics do.

I certainly hope Hillary offers an official response to what basically amounts to a call for her assassination. She would be more than entitled, given what Trumpolini just said.

[emulatorloo]

20. Media needs to do their damn job on this one

[forest444]

24. Hear, hear.

If Hillary or ANYONE around her is injured in any kind of attack, Trump will have blood on his hands.

The news media should know by now that he'll probably never apologize for those remarks; at most he'll issue a lukewarm "clarification" (and I doubt even that). It's incumbent on them to hold him accountable now.

[skepticscott]

36. Fortunately, Trump's supporters don't have the balls

to actually do something like this. Trump is a bully, but they're not even that...they let someone else do their bullying for them. Cowardice on top of cowardice.

[PJMcK]

83. It only takes one

Keep in mind that most presidential assassins and would-be killers were loners with a political perspective behind their plan. This is specifically why Donald Trump's comments are especially abhorrent. All he has to do is incite just one crazy person.

Donald Trump is a despicable man. He's also an idiot.

[skepticscott]

108. If they weren't cowards and bunglers to a man

you have to believe someone would have tried to take a shot at Obama.

[Skittles]

120. HELLO

IT WOULD TAKE A REAL COWARD TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT

[skepticscott]

124. Um, we're in the same room

Yelling your misguided point won't make it more sensible.

[Skittles]

129. you're acting like it would courage to be an assassin

NO WE'RE NOT IN THE SAME ROOM

[volstork]

85. I wouldn't count on that.

They are a mob of fucked up nuts.

[Skittles]

111. LOL

are you insinuating courage is needed to gun hump, and that male body parts are needed for courage? please....gun humpers are the biggest cowards on the planet

[Aristus]

117. That's for damn sure...

[skepticscott]

118. No...where the fuck did you get that?

it sounds like you're searching pretty hard for a reason to be offended.

[Skittles]

119. really?

"Trump's supporters don't have the balls to do something like that."

WTF is that supposed to mean?

[central scrutinizer]

123. Balls aren't needed

Just an itchy trigger finger and a full clip

[skepticscott]

125. Wow...gee...I never would have known that

You mean someone can shoot a gun without having, like, actual testicles?? Amazing. I learned something today.

[Skittles]

130. so then why the BALLS comment?

[Kathy M]

97. Agree !!

[roamer65]

3. It's called sedition.

Its against the law.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2385

[Patiod]

145. Exactly right

I was calling it treason in an argument with a Trumpanzee, but it's not. it's sedition

[anoNY42]

4. Unfortunately, I can guarantee that this

is going right into the ears and brain of my insane neighbor.

[SunSeeker]

19. ...

[George II]

5. CNN is talking about that right now - and that idiot Trump surrogate is sticking up for him.

[forest444]

10. I'm glad they're at least discussing it.

The worst thing that could have happened, is for our our lamestream media to have pretended that this didn't just happen.

We all remember Sharron Angle's call for "Second Amendment solutions" - and Gabby Giffords' attempted assassination just two months later.

[Ligyron]

63. The Rump apologist on CNN said

it was just a reference to the NRA taking her to court over anything she proposes.

Riiiight....

[adigal]

77. Right? And the idiot news woman didn't ask why Trump said that would be

a horrible day!!!!

Do your damn job!

[calimary]

104. Duncan Hunter Junior. As a Californian, let me be first to apologize for him.

He's AWFUL. He already was, but this shit he tried so hard to shovel - this is BEYOND the beyond.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. Come on, guys. He's "joking."

Don't you know him by now?

He'll say something jaw-droppingly outrageous. And then he'll say he's "joking."

So relax.

He's "joking."

[63splitwindow]

12. The Secret Service should jokingly detain him and take him in for a critical evaluation...

of his sense of humor. Seriously.

[Mme. Defarge]

54. ABSOLUTELY!

n/t

[Bob Buttons]

132. Or just conveniently be unavailable for a couple hours

...kidding. But maybe they could secure the room, not let him know, and just put a little fear in him. I'm sure we've all seen how he reacted in that airport hanger a while back when the Secret Service had to rush the stage, he was behind the podium in like half a second. Without these brave folks taking care of him, he would shit his pants.

[63splitwindow]

135. I believe his private security crew works alongside the Secret Service.

[unblock]

13. his word for it is "sarcasm".

[appleannie1]

28. When you knowingly plant a seed in people's deranged minds, it is not really a joke.

He planted the seed then will say it is a joke to cover his a s. That way if they do shoot her and say he told them too, he comes out stinking but free.

[OnDoutside]

89. Exactly, and he has lots of right win nutjobs with mental issues, amongst his followers. You don't

joke about stuff like that.

[fleabiscuit]

106. True that.

Remember the good ol' days when Sara "Bible Spice" Palin put targets on Democrats pictures. Then Gabby Giffords got shot. I think she was just funning too.

[SCVDem]

48. Are you joking TC?

This isn't comedy!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

49. Of course it isn't.

But he'll claim that it is.

It's what he always does.

[calimary]

105. Unfortunately, Mark Halperin and his fill-in co-host, Donny Deutsch, are spinning it that way.

ON MSNBC's "With All Due Respect" show.

I've seen the video. Sure didn't look or sound like a joke to me! And the audience didn't react with laughter, as they would - AND as they have - when he's actually made jokes and other drolleries.

[lark]

146. The guy behind him was totally apalled.

He sure didn't act like he'd just heard a joke. He acted like he heard a candidate for president incite his followers to murder the other candidate if she became president.

Also, why is the media forgetting to include his statement - That would be a horrible day. Obviously he doesn't think not electing HRC would be horrible, so the explanation totally fails and media is failing to mention that. It would get in the way of their treasured "horse race" meme.

[Texin]

58. Doesn't matter whether he calls it "joking" or not

Here's the deal: if the average person in the country made a statement like that and it was in a public place and someone made a complaint to management or called the FBI, it would get the speaker's ass hauled in by the Secret Service and they'd be interviewed and probably looked at pretty strenuously.

Remarks like that are taken seriously by the Secret Service and the country has laws against language that can incite violence or cause a mass public reaction. Shouting "FIRE!" in a crowded theater that results in a mass evacuation that leads to other patrons' injury or death will get that person arrested on felony charges and would not only result in prosecution, it could also lead to civil suits by those injured in the melee.

That very similar remark lost Sharron Angle the election last cycle and allowed Harry Reid to keep his Senate seat (though, truthfully, he probably would have won it any way). In any event, it was the last nail in her coffin, so to speak. And people were wondering if this despot-in-waiting had "turned a corner" because of his tepid and half way human-sounding speech yesterday. Everyone was musing if this meant he had put his typical loose cannon behavior in a storage box. Well, I guess this answers that question. It was little more than 24 hours later and this is his answer to that question. Resoundingly so.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

67. Of course it doesn't matter.

But I don't think Donald Trump grasps that fact.

[nolabear]

99. If he said something like that in a TSA line he'd never see the inside of a plane.

It's absolutely the most dangerous thing he could do.

[In_The_Wind]

7. In today's world, one simply does not joke about shooting another human.

[lark]

8. Nastiness personified.

I have always thought that Cheney was the nastiest person ever in politics, well, I see I have to change my mind on that. It's Drumpf, far and away the worst, most destructive, hate filled rich jerk to ever enter American politics. Cheney is a demon, but Drumpf is the devil himself.

[get the red out]

29. Cheney is smart

Evil as hell, YES, but smart. Drumpf is a stupid kind of evil, but one that says what the most angry and stupid people in our country want to hear, which is more disgusting by the day.

[Grassy Knoll]

9. Hey Donnie, First, Take A Big Step Back....

[a la izquierda]

42. Hahahaha

Tom Cruise was great in that otherwise awful movie.

[VMA131Marine]

14. Twitter is blowing up over this

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=trump%20second%20amendment&src=typd

[bucolic_frolic]

15. It's as clear as Sharron Angle

This man stops at nothing.

His crazy supporters will be plotting by dusk.

Secret Service should be on this fast.

[SunSeeker]

16. When Sharron Angle invoked "Second Amendment remedies," it cost her the election.

Leave it to Dumbass Don to repeat the worst of the GOP.

[Stuart G]

17. WOW.....I thought I had heard it all....but NOOOOOOOO..here is more!!!!!!!!!!!

Joking about the ...2nd Amendment. implying ....... an idea of taking care of an opponent.....

That one is almost worse than the others...????

[PasadenaTrudy]

21. Just saw this on Twitter

He can't get away with this shit!

[angrychair]

22. What seriou piece of shit.

I hope the media does its job on this....I doubt it.

[calimary]

103. Color me shocked. They're actually leading with it.

I was switching between MSNBC and CNN. They're all leading with it.

Mark Halperin even announced at the top of his show (With All Due Respect) that (paraphrasing here) - "well, we had planned to lead with the latest polls out today, but Donald Trump just said something that's changed all that." He looked rather aghast. Then went on to follow his fill-in cohost, Donny Deutsch, who insists Trump was joking. Yeah. My Ass. I tweeted to both of them: "For the Love of God, it WASN'T a joke!" And, having watched that video clip several times now, not only here on the internet but ON CNN and ON MSNBC, nobody was laughing. NOBODY in his audience was reacting as if what he just said was a joke.

This is NOT a joke.

[angrychair]

109. I agree Cali

It's not a joke. His is a disgusting piece of shit. For a candidate or anyone, to talk like that is inexcusable and these people should be embarrassed and humiliated to make excuses for him.

[Bob Buttons]

134. It was a mixed reaction in the crowd

From what I saw, at least 20% of the audience was grinning and nodding their head like they do anytime he says something they think they should "react" to. (Not sure how many of those people are really engaged in the moment, TBH.)

In my mind, that's actually the scarier part. There was a bearded man in red who seemed to say "oh wow" right afterward, looked disturbed by it, looked to the woman next to him who was laughing, and he seemed to slowly accept "oh ok this was a joke, I guess I'll smile." The fact that so many people were totally fine with it seems way worse than no reaction at all.

Then again, there were quite a few people who got up and left after that. So I guess there's hope yet for some of us.

[Johnny2X2X]

23. This is a huge story

This needs to lead on every channel tonight. This is the most outrageous thing he's said or done in a campaign full of outrageous things. And law enforcement needs to get involved now!

[SunSeeker]

45. Yep. It's the headline at ABC News right now.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-2nd-amendment-folks-stop-clintons-supreme-court/story?id=41239648

[Fast Walker 52]

93. absolutely, this should fucking finish him off, for good.

[Bob Buttons]

133. *should*, but sadly, you know it probably won't.

[Politicub]

25. A new low, even for this piece of talking garbage

[JDC]

26. Total POS

He definitely does not want to run for president any longer.

[calimary]

107. Welcome to DU, JDC.

We've just gone WAY beyond the pale.

Every time Trump has said what I think is surely the most outrageous thing he or anybody else could ever say, he tops himself.

On a scale of HORRIBLE, this is right up there with "if we have nukes, why can't we use them?" Having trouble at the moment trying to decide which quote is worse.

[TomCADem]

27. Houston and Louisiana Shootings Show...

...how the Second Amendment remedy works in real life, rather than as Trump/Cruz/Ernst taking point.

[vadermike]

30. Asshole

Screw him .. So much for e pivot He's gonna tank the house of Reps Blue wave !! I am worried for Hillarys safety Paul Ryan John McCain unendorse please speak up

[TeamPooka]

31. Fuck this big Cheeto. nt

[MFM008]

32. From a guy

Who flies around in a plane with his name on it..........

[dobleremolque]

33. Trump didn't "appear" to do it,

he flat-out did invite the country's gun nuts to assassinate his opponent.

[riversedge]

34. Trump hints at assassination of #HillaryClinton by gun rights supporters #2ndamendment

Maharshi Patel ‏@maharshipatel 4m4 minutes ago

Trump hints at assassination of #HillaryClinton by gun rights supporters #2ndamendment #uscons


Donald Trump
Trump hints at assassination of Hillary Clinton by gun rights supporters

Republican presidential nominee says ‘second amendment people’ could stop Democrat choosing undesirable supreme court justices if she is elected
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Donald Trump speaks to at University of North Carolina in Wilmington on Tuesday. Photograph: Eric Thayer/Reuters

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Tuesday 9 August 2016 15.52 EDT
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Donald Trump has hinted at the assassination of Hillary Clinton by supporters of gun rights.

The Republican nominee was speaking at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, about the next president’s power to appoint supreme court justices. “If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” he said, adding: “Although the second amendment people – maybe there is, I don’t know.”

The second amendment to the constitution protects the right of Americans to bear arms. Trump has accused his Democratic rival of wanting to abolish it, a charge that she denies.

“This is simple—what Trump is saying is dangerous,” said Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook. “A person seeking to be the president of the United States should not suggest violence in any way.”

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The supreme court has become a central election issue since the death earlier this year of Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative who has not yet been replaced. Trump claims that liberal judges could threaten the second amendment...............................

[randr]

35. He really went there

Now if the RNC does nothing they deserve the whippin they are in for.

[Geronimoe]

37. I thought everyone siad Putin is his close friend

would he not just get Russia to do whatever he wants?

[closeupready]

38. I'm beginning to think he's deliberately sabotaging his own run.

[KeepItReal]

39. "Stochastic Terrorism" is what this is. Plain and Simple.

This man is unfit for civilized society.

Period.

[geardaddy]

40. I hope once this is all over and Hillary is firmly seated in the Oval Office

That Drumpf is hauled off to prison for tax-evasion and threatening the life of a candidate.

[FailureToCommunicate]

41. Is the media so myopic, the candidate so deranged, and Americans so overwhelmed, that a candidate

could imply his supporters could shoot his opponent, and people are not outraged ?!?

[geardaddy]

43. Report from the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/09/trump-gun-owners-clinton-judges-second-amendment?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[mindfulNJ]

44. what the actual F*CK

Can we arrest this asshole now?

[Saviolo]

46. Gabby Giffords might have a thing or two to say about this. n/t

[MynameisBlarney]

47. That goddamn seditious traitor

LOCK HIM UP! x3!

[apcalc]

51. Agree 100%

[kimbutgar]

50. Can you imagine

the outrage if Hillary suggested second amendment remedies against Cheeto? Fox would be blaring this on a 24 hour loop. Just when I think Cheeto goes too low he goes lower. He's practically a gopher now.

[Cryptoad]

52. Some dare call it,,,,,,,,,,

[Beartracks]

53. He'll claim it was a joke. Too bad...

... the Secret Service doesn't have a sense of humor.

===============

[Texin]

72. Of course he will. He always does.

At some point, though, crap like this reinforces in most reasonable people's minds the fact that he is not decent enough to have the most important job in the free world. Of course it won't matter to his staunchest supporters. These folks are the folks whose forebears supported and participated in KKK raids and rallies and all matter of extremist, knee-jerk fringe groups. They masqueraded (for awhile) as the Tea Party, but anyone old enough to remember the '60s and before all know what this is about. It's never changed and the quieter Republicans know it too. Most won't admit it or they'll claim they're supporting the Republicans because they're fiscal conservatives and they just can't conscience a Democratic-run government, but you scratch the surface of most of them deep enough and you'll find the same scared, sad, sorry, bigots as the loudest and craziest zealots of this sad ass party is at its core. What's happening, though, is the country is becoming younger and more and more diverse, and many more women than men are achieving ever higher education and professional degrees and careers. Women and younger, more diverse and more educated voters will know what this is all about, and they're turning away from this despot, Putin-wannabe more and more by the day.

Sometimes I wonder (and I've actually wondered it from the beginning really), is this guy really serious about wanting to the POTUS. I think it's just his nature, but I'm actually really becoming more and more convinced he wants to be removed from the ticket by the muckety-mucks. I don't think he finds anything but the podium attractive about this and the day-to-day actual job of being President would be a bore to him. Maybe he just wants to see the furor that would result if he was taken off the ticket and the entire Republican party just implodes and the "base" explodes onto the streets. I swear. He's like a really nasty version of The Joker unleashed on the American public. SMDH.

[renate]

55. my concern that he would stick to the teleprompter and sound like a rational adult was ill founded

The Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States of America has just encouraged the assassination of his opponent.

Surely this is the end of his campaign being treated as legitimate by the MSM.

[Purveyor]

56. If I had written such remarks on a internet forum, you can bet your ass

I would receive a visit from the Secret Service in short order.

I know this as I have received such a visit back during the Bush years for something much less innocuous than this.

[mgardener]

59. What does he have to do or say?

To be deemed by the Republicans totally unfit for office.
There comes a time when Republicans have to take a stand.
Calling for killing of his rival is that line in the sand.
He should have called for Republicans to vote.
No, he called for a violent solution to his perception of a problem.

Republicans are despicable people who put party over country.

[Moonwalk]

88. I'm sure they've already deemed him unfit for office...they just don't know....

...how to get off this bronco they've decided to ride. They're damned if they do, damned if they don't, but they're probably still hoping his supporters can vote them back into the senate. So they poo-poo him when he says crazy things rather than outright denouncing him and calling him unfit.

So. They hang on for dear life and hope to survive the election season. If they do, they may be able to forget Trump ever happened. I'm not saying they're right, just what I think they're thinking...

[47of74]

60. I hope it's been reported to the Secret Service at least several hundred times.

And they have a little chat with der Orange Fuehrer.

[brooklynite]

62. Considering they were five feet away...

[truthisfreedom]

64. Why wasn't he cuffed immediately?

Not doing their jobs.

[bearssoapbox]

61. Has he heard about Gabby Giffords and palin?

Dr. Tiller and oreilly?

The bastard is crazy.

[jumptheshadow]

65. Security briefings

Will Trump continue to get security briefings if the Secret Service is called in?

There's no frame of reference here.

[Trust Buster]

66. I'll declare what no one on this thread seemingly has the intestinal fortitude to declare.

THIS MAN SHOULD BE ARRESTED !!! He currently represents the most immediate threat to the security of the United States. He issues a veiled threat to kill he "IF" she is elected. He talks non stop about a conspiracy to rig the elections. His dirty tricks associate Roger Stone has also done so and recently accused Hillary of assassinating four individuals. His crazy supporters are being groomed. THIS CREEP SHOULD BE ARRESTED IMMEDIATELY !!!!!!!!!

[calimary]

122. Sure sounded to me like he's trying to get her killed.

I am now afraid for her. Knowing the raw tempers and the tendency toward violence that his supporters have already displayed, openly, I fear for her safety. And he's just stoking their fires. They ALL make me VERY worried. Especially since they tend to love their guns... And he's had people at the CONvention a few weeks ago - calling for her death, her being placed in front of a firing squad, her being a devil-worshipper, and her deserving to go to Hell. So this shit is just more of the same, but seriously piled higher and deeper. This is now officially scary.

And what's even more infuriating - he's just flat-out LYING about her about the 2nd Amendment. She has NEVER said she wants to do away with the 2nd Amendment! Not EVER! Not even slightly! She has never said she wants to change it, amend it, update it, or anything of the kind! In truth, she HAS said quite the opposite - that she supports it and respects the right to bear arms. And she's said so frequently, too.

[Trust Buster]

127. For weeks before Rabin's assassination in Israel, chants of "death to Rabin" we're heard and

discounted.

[Jim Dandy]

68. The man is insane

Plain and simple. Barking crazy MAD.

[calimary]

112. Welcome to DU, Jim Dandy.

You're not kidding. And THAT'S no joke, either.

This is freakin' HORRIFYING. I hope Hillary's Secret Service detail is paying VERY close attention in the days ahead. I'd guess they will be, after today.

[Jim Dandy]

115. Thank you!

I needed a place to vent about this and I found this place. Amazing people here.

[True Dough]

147. And YOU TOO could have millions and millions of followers...

if you just inherit a fortune, get a reality show and you lose all your marbles!

Welcome aboard the DU, Jim. I'm relatively new to the place as well. Lots of good eggs here.

[pansypoo53219]

69. the 1st presidential candidate that should be in a FBI cell.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

70. The issue is that if ANY Democrat "joked" about assasinating anyone, that would be the end of

his/her career. It would not be tolerated if it were Hillary or Obama or ANY Democrat.

[DFW]

71. Just watch

It'll be like Fox Noise and the Kansas family planning clinic murder.

"So what if someone actually went out and did what we suggested? We didn't mean it."

[Rocknrule]

73. "The tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of people who disagree with me politically

...er, I mean, tyrants"

- Trump and his supporters

[Johnny2X2X]

74. On CNN now

Saying some people took it as a threat. Um, it clearly was a threat. No ifs ands or buts, he encouraged people to shoot her.

[adigal]

75. It was clear. He said it would be a horrible day

Very clear..

[HERVEPA]

76. I think he may have to drop out. Didn't think he would before, but this could do it.

[sanatanadharma]

78. No matter how the matter is parsed...

No matter how the matter is parsed, Trump's comments are clearly calling the single-issue 2nd amendment gun owners to bring their armed power threats into the fray.

He is saying that within the Trump tribe trying to stop Madame President, the only political power with enough clout is in the not yet cold dead hands of the armed segment of their big-pup-tent tribe.

[IronLionZion]

79. This topic is all 5 trending now threads on DU nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

80. WaPo: Trump appears to encourage gun owners to take action if Clinton appoints anti-gun judges

Trump appears to encourage gun owners to take action if Clinton appoints anti-gun judges

By Sean Sullivan and Isaac Stanley-Becker

August 9 at 4:30 PM 

This post has been updated

WILMINGTON, N.C. — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, speaking at a rally in Wilmington, N.C., on Tuesday, appeared to encourage gun owners to take action if Hillary Clinton is elected president and appoints judges who oppose gun rights.

The mogul said that Clinton "wants to abolish, to essentially abolish the Second Amendment," a charge she has flatly denied. He said that if Clinton becomes president, she could appoint judges that would leave Americans nearly helpless on this front.

"By the way, and if she gets to pick — if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks," Trump warned. "Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know."

It was not clear whether Trump was inciting gun owners to use their weapons against judges or a sitting president, or was encouraging some other action.

[Stonepounder]

82. Hillary and SCOTUS simply cannot 'abolish the Second Amendment'.

Evidently the Donald still hasn't read the Constitution. They would have to amend the Constitution to nullify part of the Second Amendment. When Prohibition was enacted we amended the Constitution with the 18th Amendment. When we decided it was all a mistake, we had to amend the Constitution again. We couldn't 'repeal' the 18th Amendment, we had to pass the 21st Amendment.

Does the Donald what is involved in amendmending the Constitution? I seriously doubt it.

[FighttheFuture]

84. This has to be criminal. A major party candidate hinting at inciting deadly force if they

do not get their way. WTF?!?!

It's like he has a free pass to do anything right now because he is a nominee for President.

Republicans: Reign in your rabid dog!!!

[Pacifist Patriot]

87. Private citizen did something like that, it would trigger a visit from the Secret Service/FBI.

[PSPS]

86. The media should shut him down. They have no obligation to broadcast these bund meetings.

[NurseJackie]

90. Don't let him get away with it. It was intentional. He knows what it means. He'll play innocent...

... and try to make you believe he meant something different, but don't believe it.

We don't have to meet court-of-law prosecutorial standards before we can condemn and call-out behavior like that. We know EXACTLY what he meant! It was an inflammatory lie, followed by a call-to-action for his supporters.

IT WAS A THREAT!!

His denying what he meant by that is along the lines of someone denying that "see you next Tuesday" doesn't mean anything vulgar and misogynistic either.

[Martin Eden]

91. "What Trump was actually suggesting was not clear."

Really?

[yardwork]

96. When you have to say that, you've lost.

[BigDemVoter]

92. Is ANYBODY truly surprised by this?

This is exactly the sort of thing Trump is famous for. . . . Shockingly unacceptable statements from anybody, but especially from a candidate running for president. . . . But. . . . This is Trump. And his KoolAid drinkers won't care. In fact, they'll love him even more for it.

[LynneSin]

94. This is proof positive that Trump has been punking us with his campaign

He knows to say that is probably the most wretched suggestion out there and for the rest of us might result in a visit from the Secret Service.

He never expected to get the nomination yet there are so many vile, clueless assholes in this country that are too clueless to realize that this whole race is a fucking joke to Trump.

[yardwork]

95. I think that's unprecedented.

The presidential nominee of one of the major parties just suggested assassinating the other.

Face palm.

[PatrickforO]

98. I was just going to post this. Holy shit! WHAT is that man thinking?

And more importantly, where do we draw the line? Trump is already CLEARLY unqualified, and now he's suggesting the unthinkable????

WHAT THE FUCK?

I'm boiling about this because YOU JUST DON'T DO IT, EVER. NOT EVER.

[AllyCat]

100. What the bloody he**???!!!??

[neeksgeek]

101. All right. That's enough for me.

I was a Bernie supporter right up to the DNC. I'm registered in NC as an unaffiliated voter. Tomorrow I will change that to Democratic. I decided during the convention that I'm voting for Clinton. There was never a chance of me voting for Trump but this... This is beyond the pale. I called the local Republican headquarters and told them so too.

[calimary]

114. Thank you, neeksgeek.

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Great to have you with us. We need you. Thank you for this vote of confidence. To me, it actually means more simply because it comes from someone who had been a Bernie supporter (and I'm sure in many ways, many Bernie supporters still do have great faith in him, even those who've become willing or even eager to vote for Hillary).

[riversedge]

136. Thank you and thank you for calling the Repug office. More need to do that.

[LanternWaste]

102. I'm tempted to hit Free Republic or Discussion to see how the half-wits and dullards

I'm tempted to hit Free Republic or Discussion to see how the half-wits and dullards are rationalizing his statement as anything other than what he really said.

[47of74]

143. I don't hate my computer...

....so I would never make it go to RimJob Land or DI.

Is RimJob Land still up and running or did the hamster powering the PC-XT finally give up the ghost and crash?

[3catwoman3]

110. He is amping up his claim that he could...

...shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose any voters. There were no consequences to that statement.

Will there be consequences to this one?

I feel like I am living in a damned banana republic.

[amazona10]

113. American media refuses to print his last line after "I don't know"

and it's "But I'll tell you what, it'll be a horrible day." Don't you think this confirms his intention? Why isn't it on the Huffington Post or in the media clips?? It's being edited.

[Agnosticsherbet]

116. I don't remember another Presidential nominee who advocated assassinating his opponent.

or a Supreme Court Judge.

[Aristus]

121. A few years ago, one of those gun-crazed teabaggers came right out and asserted that

the 2nd Amendment gives people the right to shoot the President. (He was talking about Barack Obama, of course; he probably worshipped at the feet of GWB...)

I have no doubt it is to people like that that Trump was speaking...

[calimary]

126. We had a Senate candidate six years ago who advocated "2nd Amendment remedies"

if she and her fellow CONS didn't get their way at the box office. Sharron Angle was her name and she was trying to unseat Harry Reid in Nevada. She was unsuccessful, Thanks Be To GOD!

I see that particular audio clip resurfacing today in some of the coverage. GOOD! This is who they are, over on that God-forsaken side of the aisle. Now they don't even tiptoe around it anymore.

[colsohlibgal]

128. Unbelievable

This is so beyond anything I remember, wow.

Anyone who still plans to vote for hm is as insane as he is.

Wow. Just bizarre and what an indictment of what has become of the Republican Party.

And if Faux News defends this they will have hit a new low.

[lonestarnot]

131. There must be repercussions for bile.

He cannot shut down democracy that fuckwit.

[Beartracks]

137. He sure says "I don't know" a lot. Also...

... "You tell me." Often he uses these phrases together, right after implying something nefarious, or saying something dangerous. It's actually pretty passive-aggressive. It's a way to imply and threaten while leaving yourself an "out" to claim it was just a joke, or you were misunderstood or "taken out of context."

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[ileus]

138. His last grasp to get out of running....what a useless turd.

Just quit already and stop throwing BS comments out hoping to be forced out of the race.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

139. This is what the destruction of the GOP looks like.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

140. Shouldn't the Secret Service be all over this?

Shouldn't they sit Trump down and explain to him, in words of no more than one syllable, why he can't say these things?

Can't a person be arrested for such talk?

[47of74]

142. 18 U.S. Code § 879

Yeah he could. 18 U.S. Code § 879 says making threats against both the wife of a former President and now a candidate for the Presidency are big no-nos. It doesn't say a fucking thing about not being valid if the idiot who makes such threats later says he's only joking. And it says he could be fined or imprisoned for up to 5 years.

[sarcasmo]

141. The Insanity train keeps on chugging.

[truthisfreedom]

144. If the them of his campaign is "Let's Lower the Bar"

Then he began digging a long time ago.