Republican
presidential nominee says ‘second amendment people’ could stop
Democrat choosing undesirable supreme court justices if she is
elected
Donald Trump has
hinted at the assassination of Hillary Clinton by supporters of gun
rights.
David Smith
Tuesday 9 August
2016 20.52 BST
The Republican
nominee was speaking at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, about
the next president’s power to appoint supreme court justices. “If
she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” he said,
adding: “Although the second amendment people – maybe there is, I
don’t know.”
The second amendment
to the constitution protects the right of Americans to bear arms.
Trump has accused his Democratic rival of wanting to abolish it, a
charge that she denies.
Jason Miller, a
communications adviser for the Trump campaign, attempted to explain
the candidate’s comments. “It’s called the power of
unification,” he said. “Second 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.”
The supreme court
has become a central election issue since the death earlier this year
of Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative who has not yet been
replaced. Trump claims that liberal judges could threaten the second
amendment.
He told supporters
on Tuesday: “I guess there’s a scenario in which this president
could pick five supreme court justices, and if you pick two that are
left, left, left, it’s going to be a disaster for our country.”
The National Rifle
Association endorsed him early, he added. “We want to replace with
justices very much like Justice Scalia and that’s going to happen,
that’s so important. One of the most important elections for a lot
of reasons, not just that,” he said.
He also told the
rally that Clinton is “dangerous” and could destroy the country
from within because of her immigration policies.
Trump was introduced
by Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor, who brought up the case
of Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist executed for spying
for the US. Clinton received emails mentioning him on her
controversial personal server when she was secretary of state.
Giuliani said:
“Remember Hillary told us there was no top secret information on
her emails? Remember she told us that. Well, she lied! And I don’t
know the connection between that and the death of Mr Amiri, but what
I do know is it put a lot more attention on him when they found those
emails. It certainly put him at great risk, even if they didn’t
find them, and it shows you that when the director of the FBI said
she was extremely careless, he was being kind.”
But Giuliani
repeatedly waved away chants of “Lock her up!” from the crowd.
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