I'm really tired of Trump misrepresenting Hillary Clinton's position on guns. Her basic position is NOT getting rid of all firearms. Her most important idea is to ban "Assault Weapons" most places so people don't open up with fully automatic AR-15s or Kalashnikov AK-47s on each other all the time. She isn't even trying to disarm the nation really at all just to keep fully automatic assault rifles from being bought and used all the time.
Saying Hillary Clinton's Secret Service Bodyguards shouldn't be armed is sort of ridiculous and he should know that. However, he was the birther leader which was always racist and ridiculous too so I don't see him as very logical but rather someone prone to make up things like many salesmen personalities do anyway. This is one of the problems of being a salesman when you make up lies like he does and then you are such a good salesman that you believe your own lies much like a used car salesman often does. But, there is no reality at all when this happens and it is scary for me to potentially have someone living in such fantasy as a president of the U.S.
But then again, sometimes rich people live in a fantasy because they are rich enough sometimes not to deal with any reality at all.
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At Miami Rally, Donald Trump Veers Off Script to Criticize Hillary Clinton on Guns
| Wall Street Journal | - |
MIAMI—
Donald Trump came here to deliver a unifying message aimed at
minorities but may have undermined it by veering off script with a
suggestion that Hillary Clinton's bodyguards be disarmed to “see what
happens to her.
At Miami Rally, Donald Trump Veers Off Script to Criticize Hillary Clinton on Guns
Republican presidential nominee’s comments may have undermined unifying message aimed at African-Americans and Hispanics
ENLARGE
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the James L. Knight Center in Miami on Friday.
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Attacking the Democratic presidential nominee for allegedly seeking to destroy the Second Amendment with her positions on guns, he said, “I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons…I think they should disarm immediately.” He added, “Let’s see what happens to her…It could be very dangerous.”
The riff recalled comments Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, made earlier this year in Wilmington, N.C., when he seemed to suggest gun owners do something about Mrs. Clinton if she were elected president. He faced a fierce backlash for appearing to raise the possibility of violence against his rival.
Mr. Trump’s remarks illustrate the challenge of keeping the billionaire businessman on message at a time when polls show the race tightening in the final stretch of the presidential contest. His new campaign team has been seeking to recast his image as more caring and to limit his potentially damaging ad-libs.
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The comments threatened to overshadow Mr. Trump’s attempt to deliver a unifying message aimed at African-Americans and Hispanics in this critical, and diverse, swing state. Polling shows him trailing Mrs. Clinton badly among minorities. Earlier this week, he visited a black church in Flint, Mich.
“I am running to be a president for all Americans,” Mr. Trump said before an energetic crowd in a downtown event hall after a stop in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood. “Our support comes from all regions, all backgrounds and all walks of life. You are cops and soldiers, carpenters and welders, accountants and lawyers, young and old, rich and poor, black, white and Hispanic. But above all else, you are American.”
Mr. Trump vowed to bring jobs to inner cities plagued by poverty and criticized Democratic stewardship of the U.S.’s major urban centers. “All they have delivered is more poverty, more crime and more failing schools,” he said. “These are the results of the policies embraced by Hillary Clinton. Everyone knows that if she’s elected, the inner cities will get nothing but more pain and suffering and crime and heartache.”
Though Mr. Trump’s descriptions of the lives of African-Americans have come under fire, he stuck to that message. “To the African-American people within the community, what do you have to lose?” he said. “It can’t get any worse.”
Speaking in one of the most Hispanic-rich cities in the U.S., where Cuban-Americans make up a large chunk of the Republican electorate, Mr. Trump condemned President Barack Obama’s diplomatic detente with Cuba. “We’re also going to stand with the Cuban people in their fight against a Communist oppressor,” he said.
Mr. Trump vowed to undo Mr. Obama’s executive orders on Cuba unless the island government meets demands including freeing political prisoners. He also aligned himself with Venezuelans opposed to President Nicolás Maduro.
Before the rally, Mr. Trump stopped at the Little Haiti Visitor Center for what was billed as a town hall. He praised Haitian-Americans as “great people” and promised to bring jobs and greater school choice to the community. His hosts presented him with a Haitian flag pin, which he affixed to his suit lapel.
At the rally later, he described the scene in Little Haiti to the crowd. “The love is unbelievable,” he said. “There’s no racist, there’s no nothing, it’s love.”
Write to Arian Campo-Flores at arian.campo-flores@wsj.com
