Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine accused Donald Trump of inciting violence on Sunday after the Republican presidential nominee suggested earlier this week that Hillary Clinton’s Secret Service protection should “disarm” themselves.
“I was stunned when I saw that,” the Democratic vice presidential candidate told Fox News. “That is an incitement to violence.”
Kaine said Trump had been “cavalier or reckless about violence,” and that such rhetoric “has no place in this election.”
“When you look at a series of these comments that he’s making, I do believe it’s an incitement, or at a minimum, a level of indifference to violence that could occur,” he repeated.
At a rally in Miami on Friday, Trump suggested that Clinton’s “bodyguards should drop all weapons” as long as his Democratic opponent favors increased gun control. He repeated his frequent claim that Clinton doesn’t believe in the Second Amendment and would try to abolish it if elected president.
“I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons,” Trump told his supporters. “They should disarm. Right? I think they should disarm immediately.”
“Take their guns away. She doesn’t want guns … let’s see what happens to her,” he added.
Trump came under fire earlier this summer when he suggested that “Second Amendment people” could stop the former secretary of state from nominating liberal Supreme Court justices as president. The Clinton campaign accused him of hinting at assassination at the time.
