Trump Lie of the Day: When I Said People Should Have Had Guns at Orlando Bar I Didn’t Mean Patrons

Another Day, Another Lie

After even the head of the NRA disagreed with Donald Trump‘s repeated statements that the patrons at Pulse should have been armed, the GOP presidential candidate is now claiming her never said that. 

In the days following the terror attack at the Orlando gay nightclub, which left 49 people dead and 53 people injured, Trump had said, “if you had some guns in that club the night that this took place, if you had guns on the other side, you wouldn’t have had the tragedy that you had.”

“If you had guns in that room, even if you had a number of people having them strapped to their ankle or strapped to their waist where bullets could have flown in the other direction right at him, you wouldn’t have had the same kind of a tragedy,” he added.

Trump also said (video below), “If we had people with bullets going the opposite direction right smack between the eyes of this maniac — if some of those wonderful people had guns strapped right here, right to their waist or right to their ankle, and this son of a bitch comes out and starts shooting — and one of the people in that room happened to have it and goes ‘boom, boom,’ you know what, that would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight, folks. That would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight.”

On Sunday, NRA head Wayne LaPierre told CBS’s Face the Nation, “I don’t think you should have firearms where people are drinking.”

On Monday, Trump, as Talking Point Memo reports, took to Twitter to walk back his previous statements:

The Pulse nightclub did have an armed guard, an off-duty police officer.

 

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