Dem senator (Murphy - Idiot, Connecticut): Trump made 'assassination threat'

The Hill ^ | August 9, 2016 | Mark Hensch

[Zakeet]

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) says Donald Trump's controversial line about "Second Amendment people" qualifies as an assassination threat against Hillary Clinton.

[Snip]

Murphy was addressing a remark Trump made earlier Tuesday about what kind of Supreme Court justices Clinton would appoint as president.

"Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment," he said. "By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks.

"Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know," Trump added.

Other Democrats joined Murphy in condemning Trump's remarks.

[Zakeet]

You poor dumb Yankees sure know how to pick-em!

[Donglalinger]

How long before Paul Ryan and McCain say the same thing?

[CGASMIA68]

Malloy /Murphy / Blumenthal, Connecticut deserves all the crap it gets

[phoneman08]

If we had a Republican party, they could stop this. Ryan, with his nevertrump media cred could stop this BS. Sadly, he won’t.

[BigEdLB]

Dems get sexually aroused over the weirdest stuff. As a non-Dem, what is it about a 5-10 blonde female, long neck long legs, nice behind, and large eyes they can’t get excited about. All it is is conjured threats against political hacks that turns them on...

[ballplayer]

Then Joe Biden and Hillary should have been arrested for one,Hillary threatening Obama In 2008 campaign,and Biden doing the same thing in a campaign stop saying if Obama comes for his pistol he better. Be careful he is good at the over and under

[ilovesarah2012]

I honestly don’t know what Trump meant by his remark but I see how some could take it.

[ballplayer]

Murphy for those that don’t know him is a slime,greasy big mouth,this is connecticut,there is not a democrat here they don’t wet their pants over unfortunately,you can thank Connecticut for the Education department also established during the Carter Presidency with help from Abraham Ribicoff Connecticut Senator

[BigEdLB]

Look, mommy, I just caught a brown recluse spider. I am paralyzed, and stuck with this stupid expression on my face, but after I pass out, please pry open my hand and remove him.

[MUDDOG]

I prefer hanging.

[Cboldt]

I took his remark as some 2nd amendment supporters would not follow the law, should SCOTUS hold that some unspecified gun regulation was held to be constitutional.

All of that is contingent on a hypothetical anti-RKBA ruling.

But, I would guess that 25-40% of the public thinks the press characterization is plausible - it's not plausible at all, but that's public idiocy for you.

[apillar]

What is amusing is that a few years ago the liberal 9th circuit set the bar so high on what constitutes an actionable "assassination threat" (finding that some guy that threatened to kill the president couldn't be prosecuted on his words alone because there was no evidence that he had the intention or ability to carry out the threat).

So currently the law is narrow that virtually nothing short of saying "I'm am going to take my Smith and Wesson .45cal revolver that I have right here on my person, go down to the campaign rally at the corner of 5th and main at 12:30pm and shoot Mayor McCheese right between the eyes with the intent to end his life." can get you charged.

[jimmyray]

Trumps ill considered bloviating is making it all the more difficult to vote for him, rather than just against killary. Why make such unnecessary misstatements?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

What he said, if you put it into cogent words, was that maybe “second amendment people” could do something about Hillary’s Supreme Court appointments, and that it would be a horrible thing if they did.

In conservative speak, “second amendment people” means those who honor the second amendment. In liberal speak, “second amendment people” means “gun nuts.” So the interpretation depends upon how you lean politically.

[IrishBrigade]

I honestly don’t know what Trump meant by his remark but I see how some could take it.

trump is obviously letting the media finish his statements for some ulterior purpose; he’s not obtuse enough to not know how they will spin it...I have my suspicions, but that’s all they are...suspicions...

[PeterPrinciple]

I honestly don’t know what Trump meant by his remark

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“Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know,” Trump added.

My take is that Trump understands the purpose of the Second Amendment.

[TangledUpInBlue]

No filter. He can’t help it. But the congressman from CT is a douche.

[Polyxene]

He looks like a dime store mannequin!

[ncalburt]

there was no threat to anyone.
i heatd the entire speech

Did you ???

Or are you carping the Cnn edited spin .

listen to his entire speech before making strange comments ,

posters here suck down all the mefia spin as fact .