Trump knows how to stop Clinton from choosing SCOTUS judges: “Second Amendment People.”
It’s been a mercifully trouble-free few days in the Trump campaign, as there appears to have been some sort of “intervention” with Reince Preibus that tightened Donald Trump’s leash considerably. But that all came crashing down on Tuesday at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina where Trump joked about “Second Amendment people” assassinating Hillary Clinton. Or maybe he was joking about assassinating the Supreme Court judges she’d nominate. That, presumably, is up to the discretion of the Second Amendment people.
“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially, the Second Amendment,” Trump said. “By the way, and if she gets the pick — if she gets the pick of her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I dunno.”
The media responded with some shock, as casually suggesting your supporters might kill your opponent is a serious low in a campaign that plumbed deep. The usual Trump spin with something like this would be that he was just joking and journalists need to lighten up, but it seems even Trump’s surrogates figured the “JK!” response wouldn’t work this time, so they came out with this novel interpretation.
So, okay, that’s an obvious lie.
But even as a joke, this is pretty sick. Hillary Clinton is despised by unstable people who own powerful guns and listen to every word Donald Trump says. Calling for her to be shot is more than just depraved and irresponsible. It’s extremely, extremely dangerous.
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