Former Secret Service Official: Donald Trump Is ‘Pretty Close to the Edge’

[DonViejo]

Source: Time

Will Drabold @WillDrabold Aug. 9, 2016 Updated: Aug. 10, 2016 8:46 AM ET

'You don't know what you're encouraging other people to do'

Donald Trump’s comments Tuesday about “Second Amendment people” could be considered a “veiled threat” against Hillary Clinton, a former top Secret Service official told TIME.

The official said that if they were still working at the U.S. Secret Service, they would contact someone on Trump’s campaign staff to have a conversation about whether he understands the consequences of that rhetoric.

At a rally in Wilmington, N.C., Trump said that if elected Clinton would get to appoint federal judges to lifetime positions, including a vacant seat on the Supreme Court.

“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know,” Trump said.

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Read more: http://time.com/4445735/former-secret-service-official-donald-trump-is-pretty-close-to-the-edge/

[flor-de-jasmim]

1. If he's "pretty close", it must mean he has gone over the cliff but is still hanging on.

[George II]

2. Remember, he has short fingers!

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. Snort!

Always the optimist!

[malthaussen]

3. Maybe the unnamed source would tell Mr Trump to "cut it out." n/t

[NurseJackie]

6. Is that a flashback reference to way Hillary was ridiculed during the primary?

[SunSeeker]

14. Seriously? You pick THIS thread to regurgitate an anti-Hillary swipe from the primary?!

[IronLionZion]

4. Where is the edge?

How much is too much out of all the shit he has done and gotten away with?

[AllyCat]

5. He's been at the edge. For a long time.

He's been saying nasty, violent, hateful things since he started running for office. And NOW they all want to talk about it. The GOP put this guy up as their standard bearer. Own it.

[skepticscott]

8. In truth, the GOP leadership never wanted him

as their nominee. They just got backed into a corner by the fact that their constituency kept voting for him in primary after primary, and rejecting anyone else the Repugs might have preferred.

Of course, its the same party leadership that has cultivated that constituency for the last 35 years, with Fox News, right-wing hate radio and all the rest of their propaganda. And now they're surprised that those voters have flocked to an ignorant, bigoted sociopath. Boo-fucking-hoo.

[cstanleytech]

9. I dont buy that they didnt want him.

I mean he is the GOP voter base in one big ugly package.

[skepticscott]

13. He's definitely that

But he is an order of magnitude more ignorant than guys like McCain or Romney, and he puts it on display every day. An even bigger problem for the GOP leadership is that he is just too direct and impolitic in expressing his views, even those the Republican party approves of. And he has shown himself to be dangerously unstable and a threat to national security in ways that even the nuttier of the party bigwigs can't ignore.

[FighttheFuture]

11. Dr. Frankenstein never wanted a rampaging monster, but, that's what he got and that is

on him!!

Just like Trump is on the GOP. THEY OWN THAT TRUMPIAN CREATURE FROM THE PIT!!

[ffr]

10. That's putting it mildly.

The man is a menace.

[world wide wally]

12. Trump is crazy and he picked up ways to make veiled threats against people from his mob buddies

which is a conscious effort to avoid any kind of prosecution in court.
That is why he never says things directly, but uses waggle words like " many people are saying", "I have heard", and "I don't know, but..."
He is a dangerous, self loving, greedy fucking punk who's daddy was rich.
He knows how to make a "veiled" threat and avoid the responsibility of actually saying it.

[Judi Lynn]

16. It's an odd way of speaking, he's done it from the first. Notable for its sleaziness, n/t

[SunSeeker]

15. K & R

[CRK7376]

17. How about Lock him Up!

Lock him up, lock him up, lock him up!

[Third Doctor]

18. He needs to go on over then.