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brooklynite

(94,598 posts)
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 04:07 PM Aug 2016

Trump adviser Al Baldasaro: Hillary Clinton should be shot for treason, not assassinated

Source: The Republican (newspaper)

CAMBRIDGE — An adviser to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump doubled down Tuesday on comments he made saying that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton should be shot for treason.

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...
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Trump adviser Al Baldasaro: Hillary Clinton should be shot for treason, not assassinated (Original Post) brooklynite Aug 2016 OP
He should be reported to the Secret Service for that. Again. bluestateguy Aug 2016 #1
You bet. MBS Aug 2016 #18
I guess it matters how many shooters show up ............. Angry Dragon Aug 2016 #2
And you thought Donald Trump was the Dumbest! busterbrown Aug 2016 #3
Full cavity search on aisle one!!! JoePhilly Aug 2016 #4
As a veteran? MattP Aug 2016 #5
Ah yes, treason because she used an unsecured email server. louis-t Aug 2016 #6
Nobody has been charged with treason since 1952 bluestateguy Aug 2016 #10
Oh good, another unhinged bat shit crazy example of what a Trump candidacy would mean. MichiganVote Aug 2016 #7
The Federal Government does not, and never has, executed someone by firing squad. RAFisher Aug 2016 #8
Maybe he meant librarylu Aug 2016 #11
Judge, jury and executioner. Real believer in the Constitution, there. eom Maeve Aug 2016 #9
How about Trump? vkkv Aug 2016 #12
The vet thinks he is judge and jury. photo riversedge Aug 2016 #13
Can any of these fuckwits answer the basic question 47of74 Aug 2016 #14
Go back under your rock, Baldasaro. And leave your guns behind, when you go. Paladin Aug 2016 #15
When did being a veteran excuse you from being a flaming jackass. Fla Dem Aug 2016 #16
If Hillary is to be shot for treason then you better include the majority of the Rethuglicon party . geretogo Aug 2016 #17
" " " n/t MBS Aug 2016 #21
You gotta love where he's from: "Londonderry lies in an area that was first known as "Nutfield"." FreeStateDemocrat Aug 2016 #19
i can hardly believe this. barbtries Aug 2016 #20
Me, too. MBS Aug 2016 #22
yeah, i actually read a really good article about that barbtries Aug 2016 #24
thanks for the link! n/t MBS Aug 2016 #26
How do they keep getting away with the death threats? sarcasmo Aug 2016 #23
I'm not sure the people hearing that dog whistle make much distinction between the two. tanyev Aug 2016 #25

MBS

(9,688 posts)
18. You bet.
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 05:18 PM
Aug 2016

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.

louis-t

(23,295 posts)
6. Ah yes, treason because she used an unsecured email server.
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 04:16 PM
Aug 2016

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)
10. Nobody has been charged with treason since 1952
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 04:44 PM
Aug 2016

the Framers made it very difficult to get a treason conviction largely because of assholes like him, actually.

RAFisher

(466 posts)
8. The Federal Government does not, and never has, executed someone by firing squad.
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 04:25 PM
Aug 2016

So without a doubt he's calling on someone to kill Clinton.

riversedge

(70,242 posts)
13. The vet thinks he is judge and jury. photo
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 04:49 PM
Aug 2016








..."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)
14. Can any of these fuckwits answer the basic question
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 05:00 PM
Aug 2016

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)
15. Go back under your rock, Baldasaro. And leave your guns behind, when you go.
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 05:07 PM
Aug 2016

It's like Trump and his henchmen are doing everything possible to hand Hillary the presidency. Suits me.

Fla Dem

(23,691 posts)
16. When did being a veteran excuse you from being a flaming jackass.
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 05:08 PM
Aug 2016
"Asked whether he had spoken to Trump about his views, Baldasaro said he had. "Donald Trump, he might not agree on the way I said it, but I said it as a veteran," Baldasaro said."


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)
17. If Hillary is to be shot for treason then you better include the majority of the Rethuglicon party .
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 05:11 PM
Aug 2016

Treason is part of their platform .

barbtries

(28,799 posts)
20. i can hardly believe this.
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 05:36 PM
Aug 2016

he's bad enough, but he's got surrogates running around that are almost even worse.

i worry.

MBS

(9,688 posts)
22. Me, too.
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 05:45 PM
Aug 2016

Several people have commented that the atmosphere in Dallas in 1963 was similar - and we know what happened next, that November.

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