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In Pensacola, Florida Friday evening, Donald Trump said Clinton could walk into this arena with 20,000 people watching, shoot somebody and not be prosecuted.
Here's the full remark of Trump saying Clinton could walk into the arena, shoot someone, and not be prosecuted: pic.twitter.com/J2G7rA6z3Z
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 10, 2016
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This is the same guy who bragged that he could shoot someone and his followers would still vote for him. So this could be a sign of the green monster getting the best of Trump.
“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” Trump crowed in January as if this were a good thing.
No matter how much Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump might wish it weren’t so, we have this system of law and order, wherein we have these things called procedures we follow when we think someone or something should be investigated.
These procedures were followed in regards to every single Republican-created scandal surrounding Clinton, which means that Hillary Clinton has been vetted more than any other candidate – her emails gone over and over and over, and still she was cleared of intentional wrong doing.
It turns out, Clinton didn’t do anything that many other (most Republicans who ran for President in the 2016 primaries, in fact) politicians have done with their emails.
But Donald Trump doesn’t have any respect for multiple Republican-led investigations that have cleared Clinton. Trump needs to believe that Hillary Clinton is guilty and got away with it.
This man who is running to implement and enforce our laws from the executive branch doesn’t care what our procedures discover. No evidence of wrong doing? You should be shot, according to Trump’s aide.
If Trump’s in charge, facts won’t matter. If we think our criminal justice system has problems right now, just wait until Trump gets his hands on it.
Things didn’t veer far from that level of discourse, as Trump imagined himself a scattershot maniac blowing up the world:
Trump says if Iranian sailors make gestures toward our ships they're not allowed to make, they will be "shot out of the water."
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) September 10, 2016
The thing is, Hillary Clinton would never use the words “I could shoot someone”. The person who did that was Donald Trump. These words alone are disqualifying for the office, and any sane, rational person knows this.
Donald Trump once again used an analogy or suggestion of shooting while speaking in public. This is not presidential. Trump sounded like a petulant child whining that someone else has the privilege that only he should have.
Trump can’t talk without suggesting that Hillary Clinton is guilty of things she is not guilty of. He has nothing to say if he can’t bash Clinton, a fact he proved during the Commander-in-Chief forum when he was asked to not bash his opponent but he spent his time attacking Clinton and Obama instead of selling his own “ideas”.
This is the real Donald Trump. The man with no ideas other than selling division and hatred and feeding his followers absolute fiction until their beliefs are so far from reality that regular people can’t stand talking to them.
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