Trump Just Told His Supporters That Assassinating Hillary Clinton Is An Option

[babylonsister]

When is enough enough with this clod? Get the hook!

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/08/09/trump-urges-supporters-shoot-hillary-clinton-stop-supreme-court-picks.html
Trump Just Told His Supporters That Assassinating Hillary Clinton Is An Option

By Jason Easley on Tue, Aug 9th, 2016 at 3:28 pm

Donald Trump suggested that one of his supporters could shoot Hillary Clinton to stop her from picking Supreme Court justices if she is elected president.



Donald Trump suggested that one of his supporters could shoot Hillary Clinton to stop her from picking Supreme Court justices if she is elected president.
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Trump said, “By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although, the Second Amendment people maybe there is. I don’t know.”

Donald Trump’s defenders will immediately claim that he was “joking,” but Trump’s comments certainly didn’t sound like a joke. There was no laughter. Trump didn’t say he was kidding. What Donald Trump was doing was suggesting that someone assassinate Hillary Clinton.

Even if Trump was joking, no one, especially not a major party presidential nominee, should joke about a presidential candidate being shot. Trump could provoke an assassination attempt against Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump isn’t just a danger to the country. He is proving himself to be a personal danger to the life of the Democratic nominee.

The Secret Service should be having a conversation with Donald Trump very shortly.

[VulgarPoet]

1. How the bloody hell is this bastard not being investigated?

[lapfog_1]

2. but not until November...

We absolutely need him as the GOP standard bearer until then.

They created this monster, let them own it... and the loss of the Presidency, the Senate, and the House because of it... and then we start working on state races.

In the end, I want the GOP destroyed utterly and completely, a shell of an organization that occasionally makes news for the John Birch people they run. I want the Democrats to be the new "regressive" party and some new progressive party (true left) to arise to be the opposition.

[Demsrule86]

5. Democrats are not regressive and Hillary could beat

any Republican.

[Demsrule86]

24. Of course I want the GOP to be gone

But the Democratic party is not regressive and I doubt very much GOP types would want to be members. I am so sick of the Democratic is not this or not that...every bit of progressive achievement we have today is because of the Democrat Party. Nancy Pelosi sacrificed her majority in order to pass health care ...is it perfect? No, but it has saved thousands of lives and in my opinion, she and others like her are heroes. No party is perfect but I am proud to be a Democrat. You may not have meant your remark to be insulting but it was.

[get the red out]

3. This fucker IS FACEBOOK

This is the kind of shit that drove me to "unfriend" nearly everyone I grew up with in this "red state". Implying that someone ought to kill the President, praying for his death, and on and on. This shit head is nothing but one RW Facebook post after another.

[C Moon]

58. They tried to keep it hidden for as long as they could, but the tea party finally gave it a face.

[whatthehey]

4. Well let's be fair

He could have been talking about shooting the judges, so there's that...

[Demsrule86]

6. No, it is clear what he meant. nt

[whatthehey]

11. Well if you are going to be humorlessly pedantic, no it really isn't

What they supposedly "can do nothing about" is if she appoints judges. The 2nd amendment option then added is not linked either grammatically or logically (ok this is Trump so you wouldn't expect it) to either "she" or "judges" specifically or separately. If you don't want HRC to appoint, say, Srinivasan, you can kill either Clinton or Srinivasan to stop that and the sentences still have the exact same implication. No syntax or grammar to define either way. Extending this to logic, if anything shooting the judges would be more inductively valid, because if you kill Clinton, Kaine can still nominate Srinivasan, whereas if you kill Srinivasan, he's off the bench for sure. To be sure we can assume Kaine would nominate an equally disagreeable judge to the right, but the appointment is more effectively quashed that way, not to mention a judge would be a less challenging target. Did Trump mean Clinton or the judges? What rational person even knowns what his stream of consciousness crap means? I doubt he does. It's surely clear he means someone should be killed, and doing an armchair psych bit Clinton is more likely to be on his mind, but clear it surely isn't.

[Whiskeytide]

22. I have to tip my hat to your post...

... Best wry humor of the day!

[Demsrule86]

63. It is clear what he meant

first, he said ...nothing can be done...then but second amendement might yadayada... He finishes by saying that will be a terrible day...Are you a Trump supporter?

[Demsrule86]

64. You are joking? OK. nt

[shraby]

21. And that's better?

[calimary]

35. Um, NO. NO. Under ANY circumstances WHATSOEVER.

NO. This is just NOT done!

Shit - the Olympics are on so news coverage is kinda taking a holiday.

I suggest we tweet EVERYBODY at MSNBC and ALSO on CNN - to make sure they didn't miss this, and that they cover it.

I just ran through a whole load of 'em, from Jake Tapper to Chuck Todd, from Wolf Blitzer to Morning Joe.

Make it unavoidable, folks!

[tblue37]

7. Remember when a kid in, I think, grade school--or maybe middle school--got in trouble

for drawing a cartoon featuring W and a weapon? It was treated as a threat against the president.

So how does Trump, or how do the other GOP politicians and pundits, get away with suggesting "2nd Amendment remedies" to replace voting as a way to select office holders?

Oh, yeah--IOKIYAR.

[Ligyron]

30. I keep seeing this IOKIYAR and know not what it means

I'm usually pretty good at decoding acronyms.

[kestrel91316]

32. It's OK If You're A Republican

[PJMcK]

52. I know what you mean

Should you find initials or acronyms that are indecipherable, I highly recommend the Urban Dictionary:

http://www.urbandictionary.com

It's informative, witty and often dirty so be prepared!

[MFM008]

8. He had better watch

That plane with the huge TRUMP letters on the side.
Anything can happen in the wide blue yonder. You could hit a bird.

[nolabear]

9. CNN just caught up. They're about to address it.

This is dangerous, dangerous, irresponsible talk.

[Kber]

12. I'm curious about how they will handle it.

[democrattotheend]

18. What do you want to bet they draw a false equivalence

Between what Trump said today and what Hillary said about Robert Kennedy in 2008? I am sorry, but even under the worst interpretation of that comment, nobody could reasonably believe that she was calling for Obama to be assassinated. But I wouldn't be surprised if they try to equate the two.

[Stubborn]

27. Guaranteed. nt

[calimary]

37. Welcome to DU.

I swear, I'm shaking! I told my husband about it and he literally started screaming - "WHAT????? WHAT???????!!!!!!!!" He's shaken, too. And I don't see too much of that, out of my calm, collected, cool-headed guy.

[napi21]

10. I'll be interested to see if we hear from the Secret Service about this.

I don't know if it will ever be made public, but I'm positive the SS is discussing how to handle this situation. Hell, people on Facebook have been visited because of talk like that. If nothing else, I'm sure he's been warned NOT TO SAY THAT KIND OF STUFF AGAIN!

With such a contentious campaign going on, public statements like that are very frightening to the SS, and with Don the Con encouraging violence, it makes it worse.

[nolabear]

14. Between this and the Orlando shooter's father getting into that rally I'm unnerved!

The creep factor is off the charts.

[kestrel91316]

31. Don't be ridiculous and racist. The Orlando shooter's father has committed no crime.

He certainly didn't support his son's crime.

[nolabear]

56. I'm not being either. My point is that had they known he was there he wouldn't have been behind her.

And that extrapolates to the ease with which someone could get that close to her.

The rest is your invention.

[Runningdawg]

15. Wearing a bullet proof vest

Trump said....

[Johnny2X2X]

16. Drop out now

Any other candidate in modern history would be forced to drop out inmediately.

[GoneOffShore]

17. Just when one thinks that TrumPutin can't get any worse,

He tops himself (would that he would top himself - as we used to say in the UK).

[Blue_Tires]

19. I'm morbidly curious to see

how far Trump is going to push the boundaries by the time October gets here, if he is this extreme now...

[timlot]

20. Dog Whistle for some crazy Right Wing Nut to do it so "America can be Great Again".

A new low for political discourse.

[Geronimoe]

23. He could have meant

that they will have to pry the guns from the cold dead hands of the gun nuts.

[Demsrule86]

33. How would that stop Hillary from naming judges?

Tbe Only thing that makes sense is that he was advocating for the assassination of Hillary Clinton. If he shot the judges, she could still name other judges. It is clear what he meant.

[world wide wally]

25. How can anybody who even pretends to be an American vote for a sniveling coward like the amber

douchebag who asks Russia to hack his opponent and his craziest of supporters to shoot her because he knows he can't get more votes than she does?
Why don't you Trumpophiles just come out and say "fuck America. We just want our God-like leader Trump?

[Demsrule86]

26. He then goes on to say it 'will' be a horrible day but...unbelievable.

[cer7711]

28. Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?

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Stochastic terrorism.

[W T F]

29. Threatening the life of a presidential candidate is a Federal Offense......Lock him up!!!

[bluestateguy]

34. I will stop paying my income taxes if he becomes president

nt

[Johnny2X2X]

36. Jeff Sessions on CNN

Was blindsided. Didn't know quite what to say. Tried to chance the subject, but had no clear response.

Even he has to be thinking WTF? Donald will never stay on message.

[sanatanadharma]

38. No matter how the matter is parsed...

No matter how the matter is parsed, Trump's comments are clearly calling the single-issue 2nd amendment gun owners to bring their armed power threats into the fray.

He is saying that within the Trump tribe trying to stop Madame President, the only political power with enough clout is in the not yet cold dead hands of the armed segment of their big-pup-tent tribe.

[Chakaconcarne]

39. A prime example...he is either not serious or

This is being set up for a Clinton win.

[babylonsister]

40. He's clearly in over his head;

he's now challenging the other party to do something about it, imo.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

41. The way he said it--textbook Narcissist and Sociopath speaking style.

You speak cryptically enough to be able to deny responsibility.


Trump said, “By the way, 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 you know the intent to cause harm and chaos to specific people and to "those lefties" in general, is conveyed by your message, and you know it will materialize.

At the least, you cause confusion in your listeners/targets. At "best", you incite more impulsive whack-jobs to do your dirty work for you. Among the middle, largest percentage of your followers, you stir up fear, anger, screaming and aggression.

[rockfordfile]

42. The republican party are full sick idiots

[NurseJackie]

43. Don't let him get away with it. It was intentional. He knows what it means. He'll play innocent...

... and try to make you believe he meant something different, but don't believe it.

We don't have to meet court-of-law prosecutorial standards before we can condemn and call-out behavior like that. We know EXACTLY what he meant! It was an inflammatory lie, followed by a call-to-action for his supporters.

IT WAS A THREAT!!

His denying what he meant by that is along the lines of someone denying that "see you next Tuesday" doesn't mean anything vulgar and misogynistic either.

[Hav]

44. It is typical behavior

Typical behavior of people who want something illegal to be done but who don't want to get their own hands dirty. Say something vile, incite violence and then play dumb when one insane person acts on the hints you put out in the open.

[July]

61. Sarah Palin, anyone?

Remember the map with crosshairs over Gabby Giffords's district (and a few others', as well)?

[etherealtruth]

45. WTF? I was in a day long meeting (with few breaks)

I can't believe this (I do, but don't want to) ....WTF?

Even this sick eff's run for the residency is doing unimaginable damage to our country.

WTF

[BumRushDaShow]

46. Video of the craven utterance

[etherealtruth]

48. thank you

In all honesty I am shocked and horrified .... I am not surprised to find myself horrified .... but, I truly would have not thought he could shock me.


It is unfathomable that he could say something like this.

[JoePhilly]

47. Secret Service needs to go see TRump wearing these ....

[napkinz]

49. ...

[malchickiwick]

50. Usually, Trump makes me angry or amused. This? This actually leaves me cold.

I'm here on DU everyday, and have been for a coupla years -- reading, obviously, and not posting much. But this, suddenly, I have to comment: Trump I can usually dismiss as a blathering buffoon and a Cheeto-hued cocksplat. I love ridiculing him, mocking his supporters, and usually the only other emotion he raises in me is a low-grade, slow-burn angry exasperation. His latest comment insinuating that assassination is an appropriate response to political disagreement -- though it does piss me off -- actually has me on the verge of tears. I feel like I am mourning something, like I've lost a friend.

Trump is no canary in the coal mine; he is the fucking cloud of toxic gas itself, and he has permeated so thoroughly, I don't know if we will ever be able fully air the place out. I don't know if a good electoral throat-stomping of the fucker come November will be enough to eradicate Trumpism from our great republic, but it sure as hell is what I will be working for. Thank god that for the first time in my life I can vote in a battle-ground state (moved to NV recently).

Sorry for the long post; I think I needed to vent...

[st17011864200074656]

55. From someone else who is new to posting, Welcome to DU.

Trump's comments are extremely dangerous, and go to prove that every thing people have said about him are very true. It would be morbidly humorous if he could be labeled as a loony caricature of the nastiness of the right, but he and his supporters have demonstrated that he is the real deal. He has ripped the mask off of the cesspit that is modern unprincipled conservatism, that seeks power for the sake of power.

Just know that your not alone, and that Trump no real chance of being elected, and that the reactionary right is fading, however slowly, but fading nonetheless.

[babylonsister]

66. And welcome to DU!

[Demsrule86]

69. Great post and welcome to DU nt

[babylonsister]

65. Welcome to DU!

Vent all you want.

[WiffenPoof]

67. Excellent post...

Well stated.

[redstatebluegirl]

51. Who are the old couple in the back of him (the guy looks like a think Santa)

who are laughing at that comment? They need to be investigated as well.

[nolabear]

57. I thought he was telling as to exactly what Donald meant. He knew. He said "WHOA."

And he laughed. I might be deluding myself but even he knew that was a nudge and wink to those who might just interpret it as license to act.

[NastyRiffraff]

53. I just saw this

To say I'm appalled doesn't begin to describe how I feel. Terrified? Shaking with anger? Crying? All of those.

Isn't it a CRIME to threaten physical harm to a presidential nominee? I fervently hope the Secret Service is on this. There is no possible doubt what he meant; his lame "I don't know" at the end is something he does all the time.

[Laffy Kat]

54. IMO, MSNBC is playing it down.

Donny Deutsch (sp?) called it a "bad joke" and "uncouth." Are you effing kidding me?

[nolabear]

59. Give it a few hours. This is going to be taken very seriously.

[AwakeAtLast]

68. Just like the Khan family remarks n/t

[kimbutgar]

60. How low can he go in his comments and get away with it?

Can you imagine the outrage if Hillary suggested second amendment remedies against Cheeto? Fox would be blaring this on a 24 hour loop. Just when I think Cheeto goes too low he goes lower. He's practically a gopher now.

[auntpurl]

62. Uh, I stepped away from the news for a few hours, ate dinner, watched a movie

and come back to...this. Just, what the fuck. I truly think this is the worst thing he's done. I actually cannot believe he said what he said.

BTW, this is headline news in the UK too - both BBC and Guardian have it front page, headline.

[Martin Eden]

70. Offhand remark, or calculated dog whistle?

Ultimately, does it matter?

[napkinz]

71. Secret Service 'aware' of Trump's 2nd Amendment remark about Clinton

By Doug G. Ware
Aug. 9, 2016 at 8:57 PM

WILMINGTON, N.C., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. Secret Service could potentially take a step unprecedented in American political history -- investigate one of the candidates it is assigned to protect.

The agency said it is "aware" of a remark made by GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump at a North Carolina campaign stop on Tuesday, which appeared to some a thinly-veiled quip about threatening Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton with gun violence.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/08/09/Secret-Service-aware-of-Trumps-2nd-Amendment-remark-about-Clinton/4071470788911/

U.S. Secret ServiceVerified account
?@SecretService
The Secret Service is aware of the comments made earlier this afternoon.

https://twitter.com/SecretService