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Manufactured Controversy: Trump Didn’t Urge Assassination of Clinton
Regated ^ | 8/9/2016 | M D Anderson

Posted on 08/09/2016 5:27:29 PM PDT by orchestra

Here we go again…

On Tuesday, Republican Nominee Donald Trump held a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina. Trump spent much of his speech criticizing Democratic Nominee Hillary Clinton’s political positions, specifically her stance on the Second Amendment. This criticism led to a discussion about the potential Supreme Court justices Clinton might appoint if she were elected. Trump made the following comment that has led to, yet another, a media blitzkrieg:

“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know. But I’ll tell you what, that will be a horrible day. If Hillary gets to put her judges, right now we’re tied you see what’s going on, because Scalia, this was not supposed to happen. Justice Scalia was going to be around for ten more years at least.”

Instead of interpreting the statement as it was literally meant–that groups like the National Rifle Association and millions of law-abiding gun owners could turn out and vote for Trump, lobby against Clinton’s Supreme Court picks, etc.–the mainstream press, along with Clinton allies, asserted that Trump was calling for Clinton’s assassination.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; assassination; banglist; clinton; gunvote; hillary; nc2016; trump; wilmington; yellowjournalism
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1 posted on 08/09/2016 5:27:29 PM PDT by orchestra
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To: orchestra

Can you blame them?

If they didn’t make things up they’d have nothing at all.


2 posted on 08/09/2016 5:28:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: orchestra

Headlines should be;

Trump Owns the Headlines !

Media has been Had !


3 posted on 08/09/2016 5:30:50 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Geeesh here we go again.
CNN MSNBC every 5 minutes a rehash...give it up,talk about beating a dead horse!


4 posted on 08/09/2016 5:31:09 PM PDT by CGASMIA68 (kant spell er punktuate,fluncked english.Gramer to!!)
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To: orchestra
Please, Donald. DON'T ANSWER THIS!!! ALL YOU'LL DO IS STEP IN IT. HAVE PENCE SAY SOMETHING!
5 posted on 08/09/2016 5:32:23 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: orchestra

distraction of the week


6 posted on 08/09/2016 5:32:34 PM PDT by jneesy (I want my country back and Trump is gonna give it to me)
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To: orchestra

If anything he was insinuating we might follow our forefather’s example. They put the Second Amendment in there as a safety if all the others failed.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.


7 posted on 08/09/2016 5:33:45 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: orchestra
Clinton and Obama urged the assassination of police.
8 posted on 08/09/2016 5:34:12 PM PDT by jetson
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To: orchestra

He said, “... right now we’re tied...”

But the second amendment people can make sure it doesn’t happen. IF THEY COME OUT TO VOTE !


9 posted on 08/09/2016 5:34:53 PM PDT by Vic S ( David Rockefeller killed Larry McDonald (KAL 007))
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To: laweeks

Trump Campaign Statement On Dishonest Media

“It’s called the power of unification – 2nd Amendment people have amazing spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power. And this year, they will be voting in record numbers, and it won’t be for Hillary Clinton, it will be for Donald Trump.” - Jason Miller, Senior Communications Advisor


10 posted on 08/09/2016 5:35:13 PM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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These Obama/Clinton supporters both Democrats & Mediz fools have nothing to work with, as they support HRC!!! So...they are in full panic mode to scrape up any little item that DJT utters. It goes nowhere, politically against Trump!!!

They got a problem...a lousy candiate for POTUS in Hillary Rotten Clinton...and, an even worse candidate that she selected as her VP running mate!!! That...friends is the whole story. Empty rallies and empty pants suits & suits, and, empty, biased, media!!!


11 posted on 08/09/2016 5:35:20 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: orchestra

This is the way propaganda works. This is the Noise Machine.

Trump talked for an hour or so, said some very insightful things albeit in Trumpspeak, said some things people need to be thinking about and talking about, so the DNC media change the subject and hope to drown out the rest.

Don’t listen to this guy! Pay no attention to the fact that half the people you now are out of work, pay no attention to the fact that the Clintons are the most corrupt people we’ve seen in decades, pay no attention to where their money comes from or the trail of dead people behind them from here to the horizon...

Lets stir up some phony outrage over something Trump didn’t say.


12 posted on 08/09/2016 5:35:41 PM PDT by marron
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I think Trump may have pulled another fast one on Hillary and crew...

I think Trump made these comments knowing that the liberal media would blow them out of proportion but he also knew he could easily make the argument that they are just misinterpreting an innocent comment about voting. But in doing so he put Hillary's radical anti-gun agenda back in the spotlight, the one she tried to lie about at the democrat convention by saying she supported the 2nd amendment. Now Gabbie Giffords and the rest of the anti-gun loons are back in the public spotlight screaming for gun control due to Trump's comments..

13 posted on 08/09/2016 5:37:11 PM PDT by apillar
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To: orchestra

In 2008, didn’t Hillary “wish” Obama had a “Robert Kennedy” incident late in the campaign?


14 posted on 08/09/2016 5:37:23 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: orchestra

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Soon we’ll learn that Trump doesn’t floss and brush!
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15 posted on 08/09/2016 5:37:24 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: orchestra
I heard Trump's comments. My interpretation; He was saying those who support the second amendment would mobilize efforts to oppose judicial nominees who were a threat to the second amendment.

Here's what's really going on: The MSM is desperate to deflect attention away from two big stories unfavorable to Hillary: The growing attention being focused on her health issues, and the fact that the father of the Orlando nightclub killer was invited to share the stage with Hillary at a campaign event in Florida. If Donald Trump hadn't made the comment about the second amendment, they would have manufactured a controversy about some other remark he made today.

16 posted on 08/09/2016 5:37:54 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: orchestra

Clinton slaughtered how many people enforcing gun laws in Waco...?


17 posted on 08/09/2016 5:38:05 PM PDT by marron
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Hillary cites RFK assassination in explaining why she's still in race May 23, 2008

18 posted on 08/09/2016 5:39:20 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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The NRA is a powerful Second Amendment force. They exercise their influence without shooting anyone. Honest.

What we have here is pavlovian conditioning. The liberals, progressives of whom there are 90-plus percent MSM employees go nuts screaming "Trump calls for shooting Clinton!" and the "No Trump" Republicans response.

We have to destroy Barry Goldwater Donald Trump as a member of the human race. The Rockefeller Republicans, liberals, progressives, MSM employees did it in '64.

19 posted on 08/09/2016 5:45:02 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: orchestra

The Clinton Machine thinks if the media keeps doing this to Trump he will shut up, not have any more rallies, won’t do any more papers on his plans, and will ride off into the sunset, that’s what they all have done before, but she forgot she’s running against one of the strongest, street fighters ever made, plus he doesn’t shut up, he doesn’t sit down, and he will attack, attack, attack...he works for the American People, she works for herself, she is bought and paid for till there nothing left to give, he isn’t, he pays his way and is helping to pay the RNC way...

She hasn’t done anything for the DNC, Trump on the other hand has brought in over 14 million new voters, she hasn’t balanced a budget, he has, she hasn’t signed the front of a check, he has, she hasn’t created jobs (except hit men), he has, she hasn’t built anything, he has....

She hasn’t done anything for the American people, he has, he’s our candidate and guess what Clinton Machine, he’s OUR CANDIDATE, AMERICA’S CANDIDATE and your going to loose!!!


20 posted on 08/09/2016 5:46:16 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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