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MIAMI — For the second time during the course of the presidential campaign, Donald Trump invoked the possibility of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's assassination.
Trump, telling a crowd in downtown Miami, Florida, on Friday that Clinton wants to "destroy" their Second Amendment, said the Secret Service detail protecting her should disarm.
"I think they should disarm immediately," Trump said. "Take their guns away, she doesn't want guns. Take their— and let's see what happens to her. Take their guns away. OK, it would be very dangerous."
In August, Trump suggested that "Second Amendment people" could prevent Clinton from appointing liberal justices to the Supreme Court.
The rally capped off a whirlwind week for the Republican nominee — one that saw his poll numbers rise in critical battleground states, and one in which he finally acknowledged President Obama was born in the United States, although he offered no apology for spreading the conspiracy and instead falsely pinned the blame on Clinton.
Trump made no mention when he spoke in Miami of his pseudo-mea culpa that dominated much of the news cycle, walking out on stage Friday night to the protest anthem "Do You Hear The People Sing?" from the broadway musical Les Misérables. On the video screen behind Trump, the phrase "Les Deplorables" appeared in giant letters — a reference to Clinton's describing half of Trump's supporters as "deplorable."
"Welcome to all of you deporables!" he said to his cheering supporters, before bragging about his "tremendous" poll numbers.
In a riff later in the speech on some of the labels that have been used to describe him and his supporters, Trump said, "Clinton’s campaign relies on the tired tactic of smearing opponents who question her policies as racists. It’s the oldest play in the Democratic play book – and Americans have had enough."
Trump also told his audience, many of them Cuban Americans, that he would reverse the Obama administration's actions which have eased restrictions on the relationship between the US and Cuba.
"The president's one-sided deal for Cuba benefits only the Castro Regime," Trump said. "But all of the concessions that Barack Obama has granted the Castro regime were done through executive order, which means the next president can reverse them – and that is what I will do, unless the Castro regime meets our demands. Those demands will include religious and political freedom for the Cuban people."
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