--- title: Donald Trump Adviser Says Hillary Clinton Should be Executed description: The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a Donald Trump adviser who said Hillary Clinton should be shot for treason canonical: https://time.com/4416142/secret-service-investigating-al-baldasaro-hillary-clinton/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-20T23:22:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:54.337Z article:section: Politics og:title: Secret Service Investigating Trump Adviser Who Said Clinton Should Be Executed og:description: "It is treason and the penalty for treason is the firing squad" og:url: https://time.com/4416142/secret-service-investigating-al-baldasaro-hillary-clinton/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt846050bcfd35225a/69889ceafb4eacb36188e5f9/al-baldasaro-hillary-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Holds Press Conference At Trump Tower og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Secret Service Investigating Trump Adviser Who Said Clinton Should Be Executed twitter:description: "It is treason and the penalty for treason is the firing squad" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt846050bcfd35225a/69889ceafb4eacb36188e5f9/al-baldasaro-hillary-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Secret Service Investigating Trump Adviser Who Said Hillary Clinton Should Be Executed > Sponsored content. 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Former Marine Al Baldasaro defends the donations of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a news conference at Trump Tower where Trump addressed issues about the money he pledged to donate to veterans groups on May 31, 2016 in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jul 20, 2016 11:22 PM UTC The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a New Hampshire state representative and Donald Trump adviser who said Hillary Clinton should be shot for treason. “Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason,”Al Baldasaro, a Republican from Londonderry, N.H., [said Tuesday](http://media.wrko.com/a/116016381/nh-state-rep-al-baldasaro-co-chair-of-donald-trump-veterans-joins-kuhner-at-rnc.htm) on the Kuhner Report, a conservative radio show in Boston. Baldasaro, a veteran, has called himself an adviser to Trump on veterans issues, [the Washington _Post_ reported](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/20/secret-service-investigates-trump-advisor-who-said-clinton-should-be-executed/?tid=sm%5Ffb). He also defended Trump in May over questions about his promise to donate $1 million to veterans organizations. “The U.S. Secret Service is aware of this matter and will conduct the appropriate investigation,” said Nicole Mainor, a spokeswoman for the Secret Service, [according to the _Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/20/secret-service-investigates-trump-advisor-who-said-clinton-should-be-executed/?tid=sm%5Ffb). Baldasaro doubled down on the “treason” comment in interviews on Wednesday, arguing that Clinton endangered Americans as Secretary of State with her use of a private email server and with her [response](http://time.com/4084578/benghazi-hearing-hillary-clinton-analysis/) to the [2012 attack](http://time.com/4384584/benghazi-report-hillary-clinton-congress-libya/) that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. The FBI recommended earlier this month that Clinton [not face criminal charges](http://time.com/4394178/hillary-clinton-email-fbi-investigation/) over her use of the email server. “As far as I’m concerned, it is treason and the penalty for treason is the firing squad — or maybe it’s the electric chair now,” Baldasaro said in an [interview with WMUR](http://www.wmur.com/politics/baldasaro-doubles-down-says-clinton-should-be-put-in-firing-line-shot-for-treason/40799266), a station in Manchester, N.H. “Anyone that commits treason should be shot,” he [told The Daily Beast](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/20/donald-trump-s-thugs-execute-hillary-clinton-for-treason.html). “I believe Hillary Clinton committed treason. She put people in danger. When people take confidential material off a server, you’re sharing information with the enemy. That’s treason.” Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Trump, said in a statement reported by [the _Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/20/secret-service-investigates-trump-advisor-who-said-clinton-should-be-executed/?tid=sm%5Ffb) that, “Mr. Trump and the campaign do not agree” that Clinton should be executed. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4416142/secret-service-investigating-al-baldasaro-hillary-clinton/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4416142/secret-service-investigating-al-baldasaro-hillary-clinton/"},"headline":"Secret Service Investigating Trump Adviser Who Said Hillary Clinton Should Be Executed","datePublished":"2016-07-20T23:22:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:54.337Z","description":"\"It is treason and the penalty for treason is the firing squad\"","url":"https://time.com/4416142/secret-service-investigating-al-baldasaro-hillary-clinton/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt846050bcfd35225a/69889ceafb4eacb36188e5f9/al-baldasaro-hillary-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt846050bcfd35225a/69889ceafb4eacb36188e5f9/al-baldasaro-hillary-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Holds Press Conference At Trump Tower","caption":"Donald Trump Holds Press Conference At Trump Tower","creditText":"Spencer Platt/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4416142/secret-service-investigating-al-baldasaro-hillary-clinton/","name":"Secret Service Investigating Trump Adviser Who Said Hillary Clinton Should Be Executed"}}]}] ```