Peter King: Trump Should ‘Absolutely’ Take Back 2nd Amendment Comment

UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 21: Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., talks with reporters after a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the Capitol, October 21 2015. Many questions were about the likelihood of Rep. Paul Ryan... UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 21: Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., talks with reporters after a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the Capitol, October 21 2015. Many questions were about the likelihood of Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., being elected Speaker of the House. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images) MORE LESS
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Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said Wednesday that Donald Trump’s Tuesday comment about “Second Amendment people” was a “mistake” that the GOP nominee should “absolutely” take back.

“I think he should just say, listen. I did not mean that,” King said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” calling Trump’s remark “the type of comment that a presidential candidate should not make.”

He went on to suggest that Trump might not have understood the implications of his comment. “I don’t think he even fully appreciated what he was saying,” King said, calling Trump’s remark an “over the shoulder remark” and a “mistake in comment” rather than a serious suggestion.

When asked by MSNBC co-anchor Willie Geist what he meant by an “over the shoulder remark,” King changed the subject.

“Are you saying was he negligent in saying it? Absolutely,” he said. “He should take it back.”

But when MSNBC host Joe Scarborough later asked King if he thought Trump was fit to govern, King was unequivocal in his support.

“Do you think he has the temperament to be the commander in chief?” Scarborough pressed.

“Yes, I do,” King replied.

During a rally on Tuesday afternoon, Trump suggested that gun owners could take out Clinton if she is elected president.

“If she gets to pick her judges,” he said, “nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is.”

His comment provoked wide backlash. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential running mate, said that the remark revealed a “complete temperamental misfit” between Trump and the requirements of the presidency.

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) dismissed Trump’s comment as “just a joke gone bad,” but one that Trump should clear up “very quickly.”

Trump spokespersons and supporters were quick to spin his remark, claiming that it was a reference to the voting power of gun owners. Trump repeated this explanation later the same day, saying that there was “no other interpretation.”

h/t Politico

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  1. Before or after the Secret Service visit?

  2. When an IRA supporter calls you extreme, you are in deep doo doo.

  3. You left out the part where he answered the follow up questions with Hillary is worse because she is BLM and pro-cop killing.

  4. This is the problem, though.

    Drumpf repeatedly makes horribly offensive comments, which are then weakly walked back / 'splained by his lily-livered surrogates.

    But it doesn’t make people forget the horribly offensive comments (or the not so subtle dog whistle) which in the case of the Drumpf’s call for an assassination, is particularly troubling.

    I would love to see the Khan’s weigh in on this, just to further irritate the orang hot-air buffoon.

  5. "I think he should just say, listen. I did not mean that," King said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” calling Trump’s remark “the type of comment that a presidential candidate should not make.”

    and he will say all of that…on Fox.

    “Do you think he has the temperament to be the commander in chief?” Scarborough pressed.

    “Yes, I do,” King replied.

    and that should be the basis of an ad.

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