OK, I am just SO fed up with Trump and his thinly veiled calls for violence against his political rival — Hillary Clinton!
Honestly I have simply fucking had it. I am truly sorry about my language in this diary but Trump is really bringing out the worst in me.
First, his call to Russia to commit espionage against the DNC in an attempt to damage Hillary Clinton!
NOW, he has the audacity to issue a thinly veiled call to violence against Hillary!!
See video at the above link.
From the NY Times:
“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd began to boo. He quickly added: “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.”
Then Trump’s staff has the nerve to say this:
Mr. Trump and his campaign did not treat his remark as a joke; instead, they insisted he was merely urging gun rights supporters to vote as a bloc against Mrs. Clinton in November. “The Second Amendment people have tremendous power because they are so united,” he told a CBS affiliate in North Carolina late Tuesday.
And Trump followed by saying:
In an interview with Fox News, Mr. Trump grew adamant. “There can be no other interpretation,” he said, adding, “I mean, give me a break.”
Yeah, BULL Mr. Trump!! As stated in the following from NY Times, Trump was clearly talking about POST election which means it had NOTHING to do with voting!
But at his rally earlier in the day, Mr. Trump had actually been discussing what could happen once Mrs. Clinton was president, not before the election.
And even if Trump meant the power of the vote, (which I don’t believe for a single second), he is appealing to a base which has already shown a strong propensity toward violence. There simply is NO excuse for a so-called Presidential candidate to behave in the manner that Trump has done throughout his entire campaign!
And let’s remember that just recently Roger Stone stated that if the election were stolen from Trump he is calling for creating a Constitutional crisis: i.e., a violent response.
Just when is the FBI going to do something about this out of control fascist?!?
Thanks to ‘merchantbard’ for reminding me that this really is the purview of the FBI and other LE agencies and not the Secret Service. Diary updated to reflect this.
After 10 years in the military I should not have made a mistake like that — it was just so hard for me to think of someone like Trump being the official Republican nominee for President for whom the Secret Service also has to provide protection. To this day I still have trouble wrapping my mind around the fact that Trump even got nominated! :(