Trump adviser Al Baldasaro: Hillary Clinton should be shot for treason, not assassinated
Source: The Republican (newspaper)
But New Hampshire state Rep. Al Baldasaro, a Republican who co-chairs Trump's national veterans' coalition, stressed that he was not saying someone should assassinate Clinton.
"The liberal media took what I said and went against the law and the Constitution and ran with it, and they said that I wanted her assassinated, which I never did," Baldasaro told The Republican/MassLive.com. "I said I spoke as a veteran, and she should be shot in a firing squad for treason."
Read more: http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/08/trump_adviser_al_baldasaro_hil.html
Good thing he cleared that up...
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)It is still a death threat.
I find this election increasingly terrifying .
Thank goodness, the prospects for Hillary's win in November are strong.
But these deranged and violence-minded citizens are not going away anytime soon.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)republican logic (oxymoron)
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Al Baldasaro trumps Trump! for Christ Sakes!
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)MattP
(3,304 posts)Does that excuse someone for saying anything
louis-t
(23,295 posts)Not some minor thing like killing hundreds of thousands of people because your VP needs the money. Not like ignoring the warnings of your terrorism experts and moving money to missile defense instead. Not like punishing someone you don't like by outing their wife who is an undercover CIA agent who is working on (you guessed it) terrorism.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)the Framers made it very difficult to get a treason conviction largely because of assholes like him, actually.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)RAFisher
(466 posts)So without a doubt he's calling on someone to kill Clinton.
librarylu
(503 posts)Oklahoma or Utah could do it.
Maeve
(42,282 posts)vkkv
(3,384 posts)riversedge
(70,242 posts)..."What you in the liberal media consider rhetoric, I consider freedom of speech," Baldasaro said.
Baldasaro said if people are worried about the impact of him talking about the law on treason, "Maybe they need to take it off the books if they're that worried." He compared it to someone saying a person who killed a police officer should get the death penalty, which is the law in New Hampshire....................
47of74
(18,470 posts)What the fuck did she do that qualifies as treason?
I'm getting so fucking tired of these reich wing sacks of horseshit accusing basically anyone they don't like of treason and throwing accusations around like that.
Paladin
(28,264 posts)It's like Trump and his henchmen are doing everything possible to hand Hillary the presidency. Suits me.
Fla Dem
(23,691 posts)My family has veterans in almost every major war going back to the Revolutionary War. I respect veterans for putting their lives out there in defense of their country. But that doesn't give them a free pass to be bat shit crazy, or a "get out of jail free card" when they suggest someone ought to be shot.
geretogo
(1,281 posts)Treason is part of their platform .
FreeStateDemocrat
(2,654 posts)barbtries
(28,799 posts)he's bad enough, but he's got surrogates running around that are almost even worse.
i worry.
Several people have commented that the atmosphere in Dallas in 1963 was similar - and we know what happened next, that November.
barbtries
(28,799 posts)within the last week or so - but damn i can't recall where.
found it!
http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/unrepudiated-and-unabated-trumps-climate-of-rage-will-find-its-oswald-8579787