Hillary Clinton has warned Americans that Donald Trump’s recent controversial gun comments, which many believed hinted at the threat of an assassination, show the Republican candidate encourages violence.
The Democratic presidential nominee said Trump’s suggestive remarks last week about gun rights supporters flexing their muscle “crossed the line” and were indicative of her rival’s “casual inciting of violence”.
“Yesterday we witnessed the latest in a long line of casual comments by Donald Trump that crossed the line,” Clinton said at an Iowa rally.
“Words matter, my friends. And if you are running to be president, or you are president of the United States, words can have tremendous consequences.”
You can watch Trump making the controversial remarks below
Following the backlash about Trump’s unspecified suggestion his gun-toting supporters could stop Clinton from taking away their Second Amendment rights – the right to bear arms – the New York businessman insisted in an interview with Fox News that his remarks were a call for political, not physical, action.
“There is tremendous political power to save the Second Amendment, tremendous,” Trump said on Wednesday. “And you look at the power they have in terms of votes and that’s what I was referring to, obviously that’s what I was referring to, and everybody knows it.”
