Do you mean like this?
That is a despicable action, but the comparison doesn’t apply. Hillary Clinton does not appeal to her supporters through violent rhetoric. Trump has a well-documented history of doing just that.
I am so looking forward to a time when I can go a day, or a few days, without hearing or reading the name Trump anywhere. Perhaps there is a Second Amendment solution for this problem, too.
(By which I obviously mean that patriotic Second Amendment supporters will help defeat him in November. 
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While the attack is terrible, it happened on the street and not at a Clinton campaign event. Protesters are routinely attacked at Trump events and Trump himself has called for the use of violence on them. There is no such rhetoric coming from Clinton or her staff.
I would not say that, even in obvious jest. I want Trump to see himself become a laughingstock and one of the biggest losers in electoral history.
Yeah, I’ve been thinking about that. Also the murder of pro-EU Member of Parliament, Jo Cox, by a Brexit fan who claimed in court that his name was “Death to traitors - freedom for Britain”.
Dude, not funny.
Anyway, I want him to live long enough to see various conjugations of “Trump” become a common word pertaining to displays of sociopathy and/or buffoonery.
Poor Rudy. He still thinks he could be Attorney General some day.
Does this guy age 5 years every year or what? He’s starting to look like he’s walking around just to save on funeral expenses.
Let’s go back to the quote:
So he’s postulating a Hillary win and saying there’s nothing that can be done to stop her from picking judges. Except for 2nd amendment people my have a way. Obvious to me that he advocates shooting somebody, particularly when the next sentence says how horrible that would be. Would getting gun nuts energized to vote be a horrible day from his point of view? Not hardly. He’s saying “boy, it sure would be horrible if we had to kill her”. He sounds like Don Trump, head of the Trump syndicate. What’s next, leaving a horse’s head in Hillary’s bed?
Oh really? ONE SINGLE interpretation? Even though another has already been given?
I’m no Trump fan (though I will be voting for him over Clinton), but this rush to take every single thing he says and cast it in the worst possible light is both tiresome and comical. Like he really was hinting that someone should assassinate Clinton. :smack:
:eek: Someone who is actually going to vote for Trump?!!! Yes, that’s correct, Mrs. Kael.
I actually saw an article about the “bigly” thing and the assumption is that he is really saying “Big league” and is just terrible at enunciating it.
Unless he was referring to her being elected, of course.
Sigh.
When you aspire to the presidency, you’re responsible both for what you say and what people hear. If he cannot speak with clarity and cannot resist being bombastic then he is unfit for the job that he seeks.
I am agreeing with you. That’s what I meant by genuine, it wasn’t a sincere desire to see it happen, just the sort of dumb thing he says cause he thinks it’s funny.
But in the long run, it really doesn’t matter what his intent is. Either way, it’s going to have the same effect on his followers.
To a degree, yes. But that doesn’t mean that every time people take what you say and put it through the Super-Duper Worst Possible Meaning Translator, that it is expressing reality.
Not surprisingly, from my point of view it seems that it must be viewed through a set of carefully adjusted prisms not to appear as a call for violence and murder.
To believe that, you have to ask two questions: One, why single out 2nd Amendment folks, specifically? Why not appeal to anti-abortionists, or other folks who have a lot riding on Supreme Court Justice nominations? Why not appeal to the base in general? Invoking the 2nd Amendment here has a very specific meaning.
And second, he followed the statement with “and that would be a horrible day.” Which is a weird thing to say about your supporters getting out and voting, but it’s a reasonable thing to say after you just realized you suggested political assassination.
The “horrible day” thing confirms, IMO, that Trump was talking about violence. Why else would it be a “horrible day” if “2nd Amendment people” take some action in opposition to Hillary Clinton?
You didn’t mention one extremely important point. Lee Oswald tried to shoot Edwin Walker, also six months before he shot Kennedy.
What do Theodore Roosevelt, Robert Kennedy, George Wallace and Ronald Reagan have in common? They all inspired populist fervor. And they all got shot by some loony.
I can’t see a non-offensive interpretation to what he said. Suggesting it simply meant voting her out doesn’t pass the laugh test.