Trump should condemn Baldasaro
He should be fired. Period!
Michael A. Cohen
Trump should condemn Baldasaro
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Richard Drew/ AP
Donald Trump listens as Al Baldasaro, a New Hampshire state representative, speaks during a news conference in New York, in May. Baldasaro said on July 19, on Boston radio station WRKO, that Hillary Clinton should be “put in the firing line and shot for treason.”
By Michael A. Cohen July 20, 2016
If there has been one recurrent theme of the Republican National Convention so far, it is that Hillary Clinton is a lying, crooked criminal who should be sent to prison. Indeed, the dominant mantra of the last two days has been the chant “lock her up.”
This kind of delegitimizing rhetoric is certainly not new and has been regularly levied at President Obama for the past eight years. On Tuesday, however, that incendiary language took a dark and dangerous turn.
Al Baldasaro, a Republican state representative from New Hampshire and a Trump delegate, called Clinton a “piece of garbage.” Because of how she handled Benghazi as well as classified material on her e-mail account, he said she should be “put in the firing line and shot for treason.”
Baldasaro is not some marginal figure in Trump’s world. He advises the candidate on veterans issues and he’s appeared with Trump at numerous events, including an incendiary press conference in New York, in May, in which Trump attacked reporters and called one a sleaze........
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