Donald Trump Fine With Supporter Who Called For Hillary Clinton’s Execution

[Rob L 3,811]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-al-baldasaro_us_57c04700e4b04193420eb886?section=&

In July, Al Baldasaro, a Republican state representative in New Hampshire, said Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton “should be put in the firing line and shot for treason.”

And now Donald Trump says he is unfamiliar with the remarks.

“I didn’t know that but I will tell you he’s a very fine person,” Trump told a New Hampshire TV station on Thursday. “He is a person that loves the military and loves the veterans.”

Baldasaro is an advisor to the Trump campaign who has spoken at Trump events, and he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention. His widely-reported call for Clinton’s execution prompted an investigation by the Secret Service, not to mention lots of condemnation.

And Trump didn’t know that? The reporter asked again if Trump condoned Baldasaro’s call for Clinton’s execution.

“I don’t know what he said,” Trump insisted. “You’d have to show me what he said.”

Of course, Trump loves to be vague, or say he’s not saying something the same instant he’s saying it, or even say he doesn’t know something that he clearly knows. Like when he said he didn’t know who David Duke is, or he didn’t know he’d mocked someone with a disability. Like when he himself suggested that maybe somebody could shoot Clinton if she becomes president.

“If she gets to pick her judges ― nothing you can do, folks,” Trump said at a rally earlier this month in North Carolina. “Although, the Second Amendment people. Maybe there is. I don’t know.”

Baldaraso, for his part, told BuzzFeed Friday that he regrets saying Hillary Clinton should be killed “the way I did.” And he put out a statement on Twitter Friday morning criticizing Clinton for her handling of the 2012 terrorist attack on an American compound in Benghazi, Libya, and for her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.

“The FBI didn’t hold her accountable. The Justice Department won’t prosecute her. Despite her crimes she will not be tried in a court of law,” Baldasaro said. “But she CAN be tried in the court of public opinion! Hillary Clinton is NOT above the law. Her actions were treasonous.”

Arthur Delaney is a co-host of “So That Happened,” the HuffPost Politics podcast

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She definitely needs to be locked up.

[Hotstepper 6]

And Trump could be handed the keys to the Oval Office and the codes to the Nuclear button?

Hmmm he's not one to have a very large ego that if bruised seems to have a surprisingly thin skin.... Yep that's the guy to have in charge.

Do you believe when he says he knows more than anyone who and what IS is and how to defeat them (he has the best plans). Do you not think that might ranker with intelligence agencies and Generals slightly.

He may know a thing or two about scamming people or going bankrupt (quite a lot) but I don't quite believe the comments he knows more.

Now he's not a complete bafoon and he does know a thing or two about installing the odd roulette wheel or two but that's no excuse for the public to gamble with this country

Oh and I really would like to know the answer to the following... Calling a incumbent president the founder of a terrorist organisation isn't seen as treasonous or "unamerican". Not defamation or libellous? All comes under the category of free speech I guess right...

Still such an absurd and wild accusation not only been reckless and unhinged in its thinking but there seems something rather unpatriotic going to those lengths to defame the commander in chief of your own country's armed forces. Would like to hear an American persons spin on things (set aside the personalities for now or this election race but concentrate solely on the attacks on your president)

Edited August 27, 2016 by Hotstepper