Clinton To Animal Rights Protestors: Trump’s Kids ‘Killed A Lot Of Animals!’ (VIDEO)

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gestures as she speaks during a rally in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, June 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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Animal rights protestors appeared at a Hillary Clinton rally Thursday in Las Vegas, to which she quipped that they should be protesting Donald Trump since “his kids have killed a lot of animals.”

As Clinton was discussing her jobs plan, Secret Service agents appeared on stage as a protest broke out. It’s unclear if the protesters, apparently belonging to the group “Direct Action Everywhere,” tried to rush the stage or whether the agents came onstage as a precaution.

Clinton brushed off the commotion, joking that the demonstrators must have come to protest her Republican opponent.

“These people must be here to protest Trump,” she said. “He and his kids have killed a lot of animals.”

Trump’s sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, happened to be out of the country on a hunting trip at the time of the rally, something they’ve been criticized for in the past.

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  1. Why exactly are they protesting Clinton? She’s right, there are pictures of the Trump kids smiling happily because they killed wild animals. Why aren’t they out at Trump rallies, or protesting outside of Trump tower in NYC? This reminds me of the BLM movement protesting Bernie Sanders. What?

  2. Election Day can’t come soon enough.

  3. Trump’s sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, happened to be out of the country on a hunting trip at the time of the rally

    That’s right. Eric and Junior are off making sacrifices for God and country.

    On a related note:

  4. Don’t underestimate LWNJs.

    I thought I was one until this year.

  5. The Yukon where they hunt is beautiful country. From the story of the first ascent of Mt. Harrison my bro and I made in the St. Elias Mountains there in 1972, 80 miles southwest of Kluane Lake truly “in the middle of nowhere.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7EhnonLAnc

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