President Trump’s speech before the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting took a dark turn on Friday when he joked that he “didn’t need a gun” to defend himself from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
“We are taking the power out of Washington, D.C. and returning it to the American people where it belongs, you see it now, better than ever with all the resignations of bad apples, they’re bad apples. They tried for a coup but it didn’t work out so well,” he said as the crowd cheered and jeered. “And I didn’t need a gun for that one, did I?”
Trump’s comments before a gun-friendly crowd marked an escalation in his daily attacks on Mueller’s probe since the redacted version of the report was released last week. During an interview with Sean Hannity on Thursday night, Trump referred to the investigation as an attempted “coup,” latching onto his son’s characterization of the probe.
Trump has long called for an investigation into how the Mueller probe started, calls that only swelled after his own attorney general told lawmakers that he believed “spying” on the Trump campaign occurred during the election.
See it for yourself below:
Trump: "I didn't need a gun" to defend myself from the "coup" Mueller probe pic.twitter.com/kkrAUTwXQQ
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) April 26, 2019
I am really glad that I don’t own a gun right now. Really, really, really glad. (And for those who might fear for my safety, I am mostly joking, except that I really don’t own a gun.)
Can we please stop posting as news every stupid thing that this individual says?
Knowing Trump he would have chewed on the barrel
We have to post as news every stupid thing he says, because every stupid thing he says is news because it’s not only stupid but dangerous. This is a dictator talking from the most powerful post in the Western world. We should ignore Kellyanne; we can’t ignore him.
POTUS says something completely stupid in front of fawning yes-men and women. Must be a day ending in “y”.
He is a bully…What’d you expect?
He is also frightened out of his MIND.