Trump dismisses controversy over his Second Amendment comment
Donald Trump denied advising "Second Amendment people" to take some sort of violent action against Hillary Clinton, telling Fox News' Sean Hannity to "give me a break" on Tuesday night. Trump claimed he was suggesting unity when he warned ambiguously during a rally that "if [Clinton] gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks — although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know."
"Nobody in that room thought anything other than [that]. This is a political movement. This is a strong powerful movement, the Second Amendment. Hillary wants to take your guns away. She wants to leave you unprotected in your home," Trump told Hannity.
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But the media weren't the only ones to hear something sinister in Trump's comments. Clinton's campaign used the comments to fundraise, calling Trump's suggestion "dangerous," and even House Speaker Paul Ryan admitted, "It sounds like just a joke gone bad … You never joke about something like that."
