The U.S. Secret Service opened an investigation Wednesday into comments a Donald Trump adviser made about shooting Hillary Clinton for her response to the 2012 attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya.
“The U.S. Secret Service is aware of this matter and will conduct the appropriate investigation,” Secret Service spokesman Robert Hoback told Politico Wednesday afternoon.
New Hampshire state Rep. Al Baldasaro said earlier Wednesday that the presumptive Democratic nominee “should be put in the firing line and shot for treason,” during an interview on “The Kuhner Report.” Baldasaro also called the former secretary of state “a piece of garbage.”
Baldasaro is a retired Marine first sergeant who served from 1975 to 1998.
In an interview with the Military Times Wednesday, Baldasaro denied saying Clinton should be shot. “As usual, the liberal media is taking it out of context. What I said was she should be up on treason charges, and the punishment for that is a firing squad.”
The Trump delegate’s comments will be investigated for his use of a potential threat against the life of a presidential candidate.
Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, said “Mr. Trump and the campaign do not agree” that Clinton should be executed for treason, according to the Washington Post.
