SECRET SERVICE SAYS DONALD’S 2nd AMENDMANT COMMENT WAS A CALL FOR VIOLENCE
…Secret Service doing their job of protecting a US President
CNN shows why Trump was actually calling for violence against
Hillary Clinton
This week, California US Representative, Duncan
Hunter was on an interview with CNN’s
Wolf Blitzer.
In the interview, Hunter was trying to say that
the following statement from his GOP
nominee Donald Trump was not a call
for violence against Hillary Clinton.
Here is Trump’s exact statement at one of his recent rallies: “If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you
can do, folks. Although with the second amendment people, maybe there is, I
don’t know.”
Now, I’ve never been a big fan of Wolf, but
this time he was right on as he nailed both Rep. Hunter and Donald Trump at the
same time.
Wolf told Rep. Hunter that when Trump spoke of Clinton appointing judges, that
was an obvious assumption from Trump that she had already won the election! Only a president nominates Supreme Court
Justices.
When Trump said that Hillary was “picking judges”, that means she was
doing it as the US president, not as a nominee candidate.
With Hunter’s comment that Trump was mobilizing "2nd amendment right’s
voters to the polls", that would therefore be totally incorrect because the
election would have already been over.
What else
could Trump possibly be talking about, but for someone to attempt to
assassinate either Clinton or the Federal Justices that she appointed?
And you can’t
just take Wolf’s comments on the subject.
The US Secret Service has now gotten involved and made Trump aware that
this comment was a “Dog Whistle”
asking for violence and that he needs to stop that kind of comment.
Of course,
Rep. Hunter was absolutely speechless, which was a rare thing to see.
He then
retreated to the old issue that Trump was not a regular politician, and his
comments were not always well polished and perfected, especially when speaking
off of the cuff. (But as we all know, that’s the way Donald Trump speaks about 95% of
the time!)
The final
result was that all the air was out of Duncan Hunter’s balloon.
The reality is
that Trump’s continual verbal asides that draw these kinds of comments and
close reviews are all taking a toll on the overall electorate.
More and more
voters are finding Trump’s remarks distasteful and many are coming to the view
that Trump is basically just completely reckless with his words. And no American President can afford to be
that reckless with anything they say.
Just a few words from any American president can cause stock markets to
rise or fall, or they can be the reason for countries to go on a high security
alert.
To say that Trump doesn’t have the temperament,
the knowledge nor the attitude to be the US president is becoming a more
truthful statement with every day of the presidential campaign.
There is a good reason that each new day brings
new polls showing the Republican nominee lagging Clinton nationally, and in
several key battleground states. The surveys show widespread uncertainty about
whether Trump has the needed temperament to serve as the US president. These doubts about Trump continue to be
reinforced daily as his ridiculous rhetoric continues to feed the media
monster.
As to this latest Trump gaffe, Sen. Chris
Murphy (D-CN.), a Clinton supporter and a staunch gun-control advocate sent a
Tweet that said it all: “Don’t treat this
as a political misstep. It’s an
assassination threat, seriously upping the possibility of a national tragedy
& crisis.”
On Monday, Trump did his best to move on down
the road with the economic policy address he gave in Detroit. Many Republicans had hoped this event would
re-set a campaign that had flailed for more than a week after Trump had
attacked the Muslim-American family of a US Army captain killed in Iraq.
What is so stupid about Trump’s gaffes is that
it makes him grab the spotlight even when he’d be better off in letting Clinton
keep it.
That happened this week when Clinton was
dealing with a highly unwelcome distraction: the revelation that a TV video
showed the father of the gunman in the mass shooting at the Orlando nightclub
in a prime seat behind Hillary speaking at her rally in Kissimmee, Fla. The gunman’s father even displayed a banner
in support of Clinton.
Trump’s surrogates, such as former New York
mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, tried to defend Trump while introducing him at a rally. “What he meant by his comment”, Giuliani
said, was that “you have the power to
vote against Clinton.” But as Wolf
Blitzer had shown, Trump’s comments couldn’t have meant what Giuliani tried to
imply.
Trump then appeared on Fox News, where he described the “strong, powerful movement” in the United States to protect the
Second Amendment. “There can be no other
interpretation,” he said. “Even
reporters have told me. I mean, give me a break.”
And this was a great opening for one of Hillary’s
best surrogates, Mass. Senator, Elizabeth Warren.
Warren then Tweeted: “@realDonaldTrump makes death threats because he’s a pathetic coward who
can’t handle the fact that he’s losing to a girl.”
Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook said in a
statement: “This is simple…what Trump is
saying is dangerous. A person seeking
to be the President of the United States should not suggest violence in any way.”
The Clinton campaign also took the opportunity
to put out a fundraising message after the event, emailing their supporters: “We don’t know how many children were
watching him today, absorbing the kind of violence and hate that Trump is
peddling.”
In all this, Trump totally lost in all the
hubbub his totally false accusation that Clinton wants to overturn the Second
Amendment, and that she plans to appoint judges and justices who would help her do that.
Clinton has never said she wants to eliminate
the Second Amendment. Even if she did, the president nor the Supreme Court nor
any lower-level federal judges have the power to do so.
There are only two ways to alter the US
Constitution. One requires a two-thirds vote of Congress and then approval by
three-fourths of the nation’s state legislatures. The other requires calling a
constitutional convention and, again, that takes the approval of three-fourths
of the US states.
The one thing that I don’t understand about the
mainstream media is how they allow Trump to get away with so many lies. Trump today just claims that he never even
said some of the things that are right there on video tape.
Trump claims he never mocked a disabled New
York Times reporter, despite a widely distributed video clip showing him doing
it. He even claims that he never said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was not a war
hero, despite another video that shows him saying just that. He also said he never advocated for the US to
intervene in Libya, though he did, and it’s on tape.
One of his biggest lies is when he says, “many people are saying”, when no one can
find anyone saying what he says many people are saying.
Last week he said: “Many people are saying that the Iranians killed the scientist who
helped the U.S. because of Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails.” No one is saying this, but Donald J. Trump.
And on top of all this, what does Trump say all
the time: “It’s the dishonest national
media that totally misconstrues my words.”
Yeah right Donald! The same media that you try to get as much
attention from every hour of every day!
You need to get real Donald!
Copyright G.Ater 2016
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