Months after Parkland shooting, Trump embraces NRA in campaign-like speech

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters




Reuters•May 4, 2018

By Jeff Mason and Daniel Trotta

DALLAS (Reuters) - President Donald Trump urged gun-rights advocates on Friday to support Republican candidates in the November congressional elections, warning that Democrats would try to tighten firearms laws in the wake of a string of mass shootings.

Speaking at the annual convention of the National Rifle Association in Dallas, Trump said, "The one thing that stands between Americans and the elimination of our Second Amendment rights has been conservatives in Congress."

He said, "We've got to get Republicans elected."

Trump's Republicans are fighting to maintain their majority control of Congress in November's midterm elections.

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[DFW]

1. Well, DUH

How many donations is he going to pull in from a group of intelligent, erudite, dedicated high school students?

If aardvarks represented a group that could end up filling his own or Republican Party bank accounts, he would be shouting that "we need to get aardvarks elected."

[left-of-center2012]

2. Trump said a few weeks ago, he's not afraid if the NRA

Like everything else,
he changed his position.