U.S. Secret Service official denies agency spoke with Donald Trump
According to Reuters, a U.S. Secret Service official denied reports from CNN that the Secret Service had spoken “formally” with Donald Trump about his comment suggesting that “Second Amendment people” could physically stop Hillary Clinton from stripping them of their right to bear arms.
Donald Trump got himself in some hot water after he told a crowd of North Carolina supporters, “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially, abolish the Second Amendment. If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.”
After Trump made the comment, the U.S. Secret Service, which is protecting both presidential nominees, went to its twitter page and tweeted, “The Secret Service is aware of the comments made earlier this afternoon.”
On Wednesday, CNN’s Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto told Brooke Baldwin that a Secret Service official confirmed that the agency had spoken with Trump’s presidential campaign about his comments.
Sciutto told Baldwin that the Secret Service had “more than one conversation” with Trump’s presidential campaign about the candidate’s comments.
Sciutto also stated that Trump’s presidential campaign told the Secret Service that Trump’s intention was “not to incite violence.”
The comment sent shock waves through the political sphere and calls for Trump to step aside quickly resumed.
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden told CNN’s Jake Tapper that if one of the common folks had made the comment he would be sitting in a patty wagon, answering to the Secret Service.
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) took it a step further and called Trump’s comment “an assassination threat.”
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), however, took a different view. He told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, “I don’t think you haul somebody away for saying that we’re going to get out the vote and stop Hillary Clinton from becoming president.”
Clinton’s campaign didn’t take Trump’s comment lightly. Robert Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, called Trump’s comment “dangerous;” something which Republicans like Joe Scarborough also referred to Trump's comment as.
For their part, the Trump campaign believed the comment was as Rep. Hunter described it, which is a call "to get out the vote."
Trump’s Senior Communication Advisor Jason Miller referred to it as “the power of unification,” encouraging voters to go to the polls this November.
Trump’s recent comment has taken away from his economic speech that was given in Detroit on Monday, and has caused Republicans to be concerned again about Trump’s ability to stay on message.
Trump’s penchant for going off on tangents, like he did last week against two Gold Star parents, has caused him to fall further behind Clinton in three key state polls.
A recent poll by Quinnipiac University has him losing to Clinton by 11 percentage points in Pennsylvania and by 1 percentage point in Florida and by 4 percentage points in Ohio.
Donald Trump got himself in some hot water after he told a crowd of North Carolina supporters, “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially, abolish the Second Amendment. If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.”
After Trump made the comment, the U.S. Secret Service, which is protecting both presidential nominees, went to its twitter page and tweeted, “The Secret Service is aware of the comments made earlier this afternoon.”
On Wednesday, CNN’s Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto told Brooke Baldwin that a Secret Service official confirmed that the agency had spoken with Trump’s presidential campaign about his comments.
Sciutto told Baldwin that the Secret Service had “more than one conversation” with Trump’s presidential campaign about the candidate’s comments.
Sciutto also stated that Trump’s presidential campaign told the Secret Service that Trump’s intention was “not to incite violence.”
The comment sent shock waves through the political sphere and calls for Trump to step aside quickly resumed.
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden told CNN’s Jake Tapper that if one of the common folks had made the comment he would be sitting in a patty wagon, answering to the Secret Service.
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) took it a step further and called Trump’s comment “an assassination threat.”
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), however, took a different view. He told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, “I don’t think you haul somebody away for saying that we’re going to get out the vote and stop Hillary Clinton from becoming president.”
Clinton’s campaign didn’t take Trump’s comment lightly. Robert Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, called Trump’s comment “dangerous;” something which Republicans like Joe Scarborough also referred to Trump's comment as.
For their part, the Trump campaign believed the comment was as Rep. Hunter described it, which is a call "to get out the vote."
Trump’s Senior Communication Advisor Jason Miller referred to it as “the power of unification,” encouraging voters to go to the polls this November.
Trump’s recent comment has taken away from his economic speech that was given in Detroit on Monday, and has caused Republicans to be concerned again about Trump’s ability to stay on message.
Trump’s penchant for going off on tangents, like he did last week against two Gold Star parents, has caused him to fall further behind Clinton in three key state polls.
A recent poll by Quinnipiac University has him losing to Clinton by 11 percentage points in Pennsylvania and by 1 percentage point in Florida and by 4 percentage points in Ohio.
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