Trump team tries to knock down suggestions he joked about Clinton assassination

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

Donald Trump’s rapid response team on Tuesday tried to walk back the candidate’s suggestion that Second Amendment enthusiasts could stop Hillary Clinton, remarks interpreted widely as the GOP nominee joking about an assassination.

“It’s called the power of unification,” Jason Miller, campaign spokesman, said in an email sent by the rapid response team. “2nd Amendment people have amazing spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power. And this year, they will be voting in record numbers, and it won’t be for Hillary Clinton, it will be for Donald Trump.”

Trump, minutes earlier at a rally, said: “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment…By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know. But I’ll tell you what, that will be a horrible day.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-clinton-assassination-joke-response-226835

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Hmm, if there was nothing wrong with the statement, why the need to comment on it?

[liberalmuse]

1. I think anyone who watched that clip...

knows exactly what he was referring to. There is no gilding this turd!

[Kber]

2. Oh. So it's about voting. Right.

I hate people who insist on treating me like an idiot.

On edit: I wish I could have been a fly on the wall back stage at the rally to see the expressions of the campaign staff when he dropped this turd in their press kits.

[Chemisse]

7. That would've been priceless.

It's the only thing about this 'joke' that's actually funny.

[Kber]

8. I cant wait for the book.

[underpants]

10. I thought they'd go the "blocking nominations" route

everyone knew exactly what he meant

[0rganism]

13. there will be movies made about this "campaign"

as a political campaign, it is the single-most hilarious disaster i have seen in my not-so-short-anymore life

as political performance art, it is pure brilliance.

the scripts write themselves, but in case they don't Donald should get in touch with his good friend John Barron, who does some quality ghost writing on the side

[gelsdorf]

20. And Bill Murray as tRump!! n/t

[pokerfan]

28. or Alec Baldwin

or Jeff Bridges...

[tonyt53]

3. No teleprompter and no script, and we see the real Trump.

Inciting Russian hackers and an assassination in two weeks time.

[Chemisse]

4. “But I tell you what, that will be a horrible day.”

It'll be a horrible day if he beats Hillary because of 2nd amendment voters? Obviously that's not what he meant. He meant he would pretend it would be 'horrible' if Hillary were killed, because that is what he thinks absolves him of any responsibility for making this statement.

Nice try though.

[maxsolomon]

5. "hey, i'm just sayin' - i'm not implying anything!"

2nd amendment people are free to go out in the streets and protest the repeal of the 2nd. which will be occurring approximately never ever.

note to trump: judges don't repeal amendments, dipshit.

[Botany]

6. You can not unring that bell Donny

The man needs to be locked up.

[emulatorloo]

9. Flack said what?

really awful implausible spin.

[Tom Rinaldo]

12. It's all they have, what can they say? Lighten up folks, he's only joking about shooting Clinton??

"Ha ha, that's what people love about him, he's not afraid of making politically incorrect jokes"

[emulatorloo]

15. 'Yeah, don't worry about those whack-job w guns who took this seriously! They are CRAZY!"

[randr]

11. The phrase "second amendment" in re a solution is long established as reprehensible.

There is no way he did not intend to mimic the gun nut meme.

[riversedge]

14. Jason Miller lies like his boss-Trump does.

[63splitwindow]

16. A favorite tactic of the cowardly RW types is to "imply" or "suggest" something they are too

afraid to just say right out loud and then let their adversary call them out so that they can sanctimoniously deny it. Chicken poop is what it is.

[Gothmog]

17. Trump is just as stupid as Sharon Angle

[MANative]

18. Oh, to be a fly on the wall in Reince Priebus' office right about now.

The video is pretty clear that it context, he was not talking about voting. There are no words to describe what an utter shitstain this creature is.

[Kber]

21. Preibus is getting exactly what he deserves.

[MANative]

22. Concur completely! It'd be fun to watch his head goin' all splody.

[Bradical79]

19. He's clearlly talking about after she gets elected.

His rapid response team is full of shit, but you all know that already.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

23. Because candidates running for President get to appoint Supreme Court justices?

I no get.

[turbinetree]

24. Lets really think about this folks and what he said --------------

And he's getting intelligence briefings -------------really, they are giving him intelligence briefings, this can't be emphasized enough, he has no business getting them, he is telling people:

“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment…By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know. But I’ll tell you what, that will be a horrible day.”

This IDIOT is talking about other people killing people if he doesn't get elected-----------

Hey republicans you own this guy, and he now owns you, he really is a narcissistic psychopath, I can't wait until he has to testify on the Trump U fraud case and the public gets to see his tax returns.

What are the republican enablers going to say now, and those that are trying to have it both ways in this election like the Paul Ryan and his Congressional House , and Mitch McConnell and his Senate---------------he is there leader, and he's the last of the insane clowns from the bus ride for the last eighteen months



People, we need to get out and vote, this can't be emphasized enough.

[Jim Dandy]

25. The first certifiably insane candidate for president?

Maybe there have been other lunatics on a presidential ballot. But not lately.

[Friend or Foe]

26. The guy right behind Drumpf in the white beard

Certainly knew what Drumpf was implying

[Tom Rinaldo]

27. Yeah, but the woman to the left at him laughted when he turned towrd her n/t

[greyl]

34. They BOTH knew what he was saying, and reacted differently. nt

[GreydeeThos]

29. Trump has gone and done it again

People are posting about this like Trump has rolled off axel deep to a Ferris Wheel into the stink. The fact of the matter is Trump has just placed himself at the top of the news cycle for the rest of the week.

How much more free air time can the news media give him? Especially when half the Republican base is high-fiving themselves on how great he is.

[MichiganVote]

30. So this is the "gloves off" thing he talks about? Instigating violence, right, b/c that is so right.

[Imperialism Inc.]

31. It's clear from the context he is talking about

them doing something after she "picks her judges", so the spokesperson's spin is clearly bullshit. Uniting to vote won't do much good once someone has won and is "picking their judges".

[greyl]

35. Exactly. It was an if-then statement - he only omitted the word "then". nt

[riversedge]

32. and they will fail.

[DFW]

33. Just imagine the Secret Service asking Trump:

Secret Service agent: Mr. Trump, just what did you mean by "The Second Amendment people?"

Whatever Trump's answer, somehow, I'm betting that it will NOT be: "James Madison, James Monroe and Thomas Jefferson."

[olddad56]

36. if he was joking, his sense of humor is as fucked up as his hair.

[yellowcanine]

37. He wasn't joking. The context makes that clear.

And he followed up with, "That will be a horrible day." So he was talking about a specific time after Clinton wins election and is appointing SCOTUS judges. No indication before, during or after the riff that this was a joke.