Trump Camp Spins ‘2nd Amendment People’: He Means Their Votes

Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump listens to a question during an interview after a rally in Virginia Beach, Va., Monday, July 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump listens to a question during an interview after a rally in Virginia Beach, Va., Monday, July 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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The Donald Trump campaign offered an explanation of an allusion the GOP nominee made to “the Second Amendment people” preventing Hillary Clinton from appointing Supreme Court justices — a line widely interpreted to be a reference to assassination — by arguing that Trump actually meant that the political power of Second Amendment supporters would stop Clinton.

“It’s called the power of unification – 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,” Jason Miller, Trump’s senior communications advisor, said in a statement to reporters Tuesday.

The statement was titled: “Trump Campaign Statement On Dishonest Media.”

At a campaign rally in North Carolina Tuesday, Trump warned attendees of the types of judges Clinton would pick if she was elected.

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

The Clinton campaign, meanwhile, in a statement from campaign manager Robby Mook, called Trump’s remark “dangerous.”

“A person seeking to be the President of the United States should not suggest violence in any way,” Mook said.

The National Rifle Association, via Twitter, promoted an interpretation of Trump’s comments that suggests a reference to the election, rather than to an assassination attempt.

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  1. His comment hypothesized about a post election scenario, so this spin makes no sense.

  2. Voting would be the “horrible day” that Drumpf mentioned at the end of his call for HRC’s assassination? Spinning your tangled web rather badly, aren’t you?

  3. “You’re gonna sleep with the fishes” = I’m going to buy you a lovely pet fish for your bedroom!

  4. Once the election is held their votes won’t count anymore.
    And if Hillary wins by a large margin, they won’t be able to gather enough votes to do much.

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

    The Clinton campaign, meanwhile, in a statement from campaign manager Robby Mook, called Trump’s remark “dangerous.”

    I can’t argue with Mook here. Trump’s base seems to be, shall we say, a rather excitable bunch.

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