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mystery-ak · « **on:** August 09, 2016, 10:59:20 pm »

Trump’s loaded words fuel campaign freefall

Detouring off script again lands the GOP nominee in perilous territory.

By Eli Stokols

08/09/16 05:21 PM EDT

Updated 08/09/16 05:53 PM EDT

Barely 24 hours after Donald Trump delivered a speech intended to reset his staggering presidential campaign, his off-the-cuff suggestion that people resort to violence against his opponent has him right back in the ditch.

At a rally in North Carolina on Tuesday, Trump applied his signature sarcasm to a political third rail, stating that "the Second Amendment" may be the only way to stop Clinton from getting to appoint federal judges if she defeats him in November.

“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment,” he said. “By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know. But I’ll tell you what, that will be a horrible day.”

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Wingnut · « **Reply #1 on:** August 09, 2016, 11:07:12 pm »

Trumpsplaining Expert Jason Miller, Trump's senior communications adviser,

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said Trump was merely talking about Second Amendment supporters large influence as a group.
"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," he said.

The former head of the CIA, retired Gen. Michael Hayden, told CNN's Jake Tapper: "If someone else had said that said outside the hall, he'd be in the back of a police wagon now with the Secret Service questioning him."
US Secret Service communications director Cathy Milhoan told CNN the agency "is aware of Mr. Trump's comments."