And his fans
cheer…the definition of “deplorable”
By Ryan Denson
Donald Trump is rising in the polls, has the media wrapped around his little finger, and people are starting to take him seriously. With all these things going in his favor, with 50 days left until the election, you’d think he would stick to staying on script.
But, as always, he screws it up.
Just hours after “denouncing”
birtherism (and then falsely accusing the 2008 Clinton campaign of starting
it), Trump delivered another off-color, off script speech in Miami where he
(yet again) hinted at Hillary Clinton’s assassination.
After incorrectly claiming that
Clinton wants to abolish the Second Amendment (which she can’t do), Trump said:
“I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons. They should disarm. I think they should disarm immediately, what do you think, yes? Take their guns away, she doesn’t want guns. Take them, let’s see what happens to her. Take their guns away, okay. It will be very dangerous.”
And just like that, Trump
basically called for an assassination of Hillary Clinton, and the basket of
deplorables cheered.
“Hillary wants to 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 those comments were made,
Trump received intense backlash from both the left and the right. Although his
people maintain he was not advocating for assassination, but rather them
getting out to vote, his campaign promised to stay on script the remainder of
the race.
Clearly they aren’t following
their own advice.
Former Congresswoman Gabrielle
Giffords, who was shot in the head at a constituents’ meeting – thus forcing
her to resign from Congress – demanded Trump apologize and disavow his dangerous comments:
“In his more stable moments, Mr. Trump has said he regrets some of the ugly insults and dangerous threats he has leveled during the course of this campaign. We call on him to immediately renounce these comments, apologize to Hillary Clinton, and acknowledge that once again he has gone dangerously too far.”
If anyone knows the danger of
stoking political violence, no matter how “innocent” it may seem, it’s
Gabrielle Giffords.
Republicans, Independents, and weary Democrats should ask
themselves: is this who they want representing them? A “man” who makes a casual
reference to violence against Hillary Clinton?
Any presidential candidate who
is so cowardly he has to call on his opponent to essentially be assassinated
should in no way even remotely be considered for the job.
Perhaps Trump’s secret service
agents should have a word with the Republican candidate about jokes regarding
death.
When will the American people
stand up and say ‘enough is enough.’ Enough of the off-script “jokes,” enough
of the blatant disregard for cordial campaigning, enough of the deplorable and
reprehensible comments.