LF: Trump says anti-gun Hillary should disarm her Secret Service bodyguards

Title: Trump says anti-gun Hillary should disarm her Secret Service bodyguards – and 'let's see what happens to her!'
Source: Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... nton-bodyguards-lose-guns.html
Published: Sep 17, 2016
Author: Dailymail Reporter
Post Date: 2016-09-17 07:37:59 by cranky
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Donald Trump has taken aim at Hillary Clinton by suggesting she should strip her bodyguards of their weapons and 'see what happens'.

Trump - who has long claimed his presidential rival wants to overturn the Second Amendment - appeared to suggest such a move would court 'danger'.

'I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons. They should disarm, right?' he asked his baying crowd of supporters at a rally in Miami.

Donald Trump (pictured) called on Clinton to strip her bodyguards of their weapons and 'see what happens'

He went on: 'Take their guns away, she doesn't want guns. Let's see what happens to her. Take their guns away. Okay, it would be very dangerous.'

A campaign spokeswoman refused to elaborate on what Trump meant, and whether he was suggesting Clinton would be attacked were it not for her armed entourage.

He came under fire for an equally ominous statement last month, in which he appeared to be call for Clinton to be assassinated.

Speaking in North Carolina, the Republican nominee erroneously said his opponent wants to 'abolish, essentially, the Second Amendment'.

He continued: '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.'

Within minutes, the Clinton campaign condemned the remark with her campaign manager Robby Mook saying: 'A person seeking to be the president of the United States should not suggest violence in any way.'

Trump has long claimed his presidential rival Clinton (pictured, flanked by secret service) wants to overturn the Second Amendment

A campaign spokeswoman refused to comment on whether Trump was suggesting Clinton (pictured) would be attacked were it not for her armed entourage

Trump later disputed that criticism, saying everyone in his audience knew he was referring to the power of voters and 'there can be no other interpretation'.

Trump, who has the endorsement of the National Rifle Association, eventually took to Twitter to say the Secret Service had not contacted him about the remarks.

His comments on Friday came hours after Trump finally reversed his long-held position that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

Appearing in Washington, he said Obama was born in the United States but then incorrectly suggested that the Clinton campaign had started the conspiracy theory.

Trump ignored questions about the U-turn and has yet to explain why he abandoned the 'birther' stance that fueled his political fame.

Trump went on in Miami (pictured): 'Take their guns away, she doesn't want guns. Let's see what happens to her'

'I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons. They should disarm, right?' Trump asked his supporters at a rally in Miami (pictured)

Speaking in North Carolina last month, Trump (pictured in Miami) erroneously said his opponent wants to 'abolish, essentially, the Second Amendment'

While campaigning in South Florida, which has a large Cuban-American population, Trump he would reverse Obama's efforts to normalize relations with Cuba if he was elected president.

Among those would be religious and political freedom for the Cuban people and the freeing of all political prisoners, he claimed

Trump says he will 'stand with the Cuban people in their fight against communist oppression'.

The comment marks yet another reversal for the GOP candidate, who previously said he supported the idea of normalized relations, but wished the U.S. had negotiated a better deal.

Trump also said the U.S. has a broader obligation to stand with oppressed people — a comment that seems at odds with his 'America first' mantra.

Trump finally admitted Obama (pictured) was born in the United States but then incorrectly suggested the Clinton campaign had started the conspiracy theory

'The next president of the United States must stand in solidarity with all people oppressed in our hemisphere, and we will stand with oppressed people, and there are many,' he said.

He added that the people of Venezuela 'are yearning to be free, they are yearning for help. The system is bad. But the people are great.'

Trump has often cited the country as a model of a failed state, warning that if Clinton is elected, she'll turn the U.S. into Venezuela.