Donald Trump Suggests 'Second Amendment People' May Want To Assassinate Hillary Clinton Before She Takes Away Their Guns

This off-the-cuff remark may have been damaging to his campaign.

onAugust 10, 2016 at 12:21 PM

Donald Trump

Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment — by the way, and if she gets to pick — if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I dunno.

— Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, speaking at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, and implying in an off-the-cuff remark that the only way to prevent his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton from nominating liberal jurists for seats on the Supreme Court would be for gun rights advocates to commit acts of violence against her.

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From Pilot and Above The Law

Trump insists that his comment was not a joke; rather, he claims he was urging gun rights supports to vote against Clinton. “There can be no other interpretation,” he said. “I mean, give me a break.”

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