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# Donald Trump’s ‘Second Amendment’ Remark at Rally

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## Video: Donald Trump’s ‘Second Amendment’ Remark at Rally

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_Published 2016-08-09. Hillary Clinton’s campaign strongly condemned Donald Trump Tuesday over an aside at a rally that they said suggested that the Democratic nominee or federal judges should be shot._


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## Transcript

[00:00] Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second
[00:04] Amendment. By the way, [ SOUND ] and if she gets to
[00:05] pick, if she gets
[00:09] to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks.
[00:15] Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there
[00:17] is, I don't know. But I'll tell you what, that
[00:21] will be a horrible day.

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