"I'LL TELL YOU WHAT; THAT WILL BE A HORRIBLE DAY."
By Scott Drummer
Often they play the clip that cuts out this final and very telling line. Those are the exact words he uses after saying that "2nd Amendment people" can do something about Clinton, "I don't know. But, I'll tell you what..." There is no long pause. No discernible separation from one thought (i.e.: "2nd.. People doing something..." to Hillary Clinton) to the next (i.e: "that will be a horrible day."). And the “But” between the lines confirms they are connected. Simply put: They are connected ideas, part of the same horrible thought.
But make no mistake, Trump is not sincerely saying it would be horrible if something happened to Secretary Clinton. More like the guy running the local protection racket telling you it will be a horrible day when all the windows in your store are broken and your wife is raped but if you don't pay-up there's nothing he can do to help you.
Clearly, Trump is suggesting something horrible happen to stop Hillary. Even under the most generous interpretation, why would the 2nd Amendment people standing up “politically” for their rights, as Trump's surrogates claimed he meant, possibly be a "horrible day" to a pro-2nd guy like Trump unless that day involved something horrible, like, say (wink-wink), an assassination?
I know this is obvious to us all here at Kos but out there in the mainstream-media many are still offering a false equivalency argument. If Trump flat-out said "Hillary should be murdered!" just like that, in those exact words, on video-tape; Fox News (and many others) would report with equal vigor that "Trump spokesperson ________ said today that what Mr. Trump was actually saying was "Hillary's email situation should be looked into more fully." And Ryan and Giuliani and all the rest of Trump's subservient flock would simply parrot it back and keep repeating it until, despite all evidence, the lie actually competed equally with the truth.
Groucho said it best: "Who you gonna believe; me or your lyin' eyes?"
Scott Drummer