Het kan altijd nóg erger, zeker wanneer je Donald Trump heet. Tijdens een rant over het Tweede Amendement van de Grondwet – het recht wapens te dragen – suggereerde Trump dat iemand Hillary neer zou moeten schieten om te voorkomen dat ze “linkse” (liberal) rechters zou benoemen bij het Hooggerechtshof:
Hillary wants to abolish — essentially abolish — the Second Amendment. By the way, if she gets to pick — if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you could do folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know. But — 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 10 more years at least. And this is what happens, that was a horrible thing. So now look at it. Hillary essentially wants to abolish the Second Amendment.
“Second Amendment people” verwijst naar milities en gunfreaks, die tot de harde kern van Trump’s aanhang behoren. Dat Clinton het Tweede Amendement niet wíl afschaffen en daartoe ook niet de bevoegdheid heeft, is in het alternatieve universum van de Republikeinse presidentskandidaat en diens aanhang van geen enkel belang.
Let op de man met de grijze baard achter Trump. Hij begrijpt precies waar The Donald op doelt.
Commentaar van John Podhoretz, een voormalige speechwriter van Reagan en Bush:
That Second-Amendment folks want to shoot politicians they don’t like is, let me just say, not a classic Republican theme
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) August 9, 2016
2. Did he mean it? What possible difference does it make? Does he mean anything?
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) August 9, 2016
3. To support him is to support meaninglessness–you choose as his supporter what parts of his nihilistic nonsense you take seriously
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) August 9, 2016
En de eveneens knetterrechtse Garry Kasparov:
Putin’s followers often “joke” about opposition leaders being killed. Posters with crosshairs, etc. Then they are murdered and it’s no joke.
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) August 9, 2016
