MANASSAS, Va. — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump held a moment of silence at his campaign rally Wednesday evening for victims of the mass shooting in San Bernadino, Calif.
After praising law enforcement officials and police for handling situations like such as the one developing in California, the billionaire paused. “Okay,” Trump said after 30 seconds, as a woman shouted “Amen!”
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The leading GOP candidate, who called for universal concealed-carry laws in his Second Amendment plan earlier this fall, avoided politicizing the tragedy, choosing instead to commend the law enforcement officials and first responders involved in mass shootings.
“I don’t want to do what they do, you don’t want to do what they do,” Trump said.
Later on, Trump asked law enforcement present at his to “gently remove” a group of hecklers as quickly as possible.
