Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said the crowd's reaction is proof Donald Trump wasn't really talking about shooting Hillary Clinton when he suggested at a rally Tuesday that "Second Amendment people" might be able to stop her from picking Supreme Court judges. "With a crowd like that, if that's what they thought he'd meant, they'd have gone wild," Giuliani told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America on Wednesday.
Giuliani said Trump was really just explaining how gun rights advocates "have the power to keep her out of office." Besides, he pointed out, if Trump wanted to suggest using violence against Clinton, he wouldn't have danced around saying that. "We know Donald Trump is not particularly indirect," Giuliani said. "If Donald Trump was going to say something like that, he'd say something like that."
Trump has also dismissed the controversy surrounding his remark, which he said was just a "joke" encouraging "unification." "Nobody in that room thought anything other than [that]. This is a political movement. This is a strong powerful movement, the Second Amendment," Trump said Tuesday night.
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