Bush Appointee General Michael Hayden Denounces Trump’s Call for Violence
General Michael Hayden says if any ordinary person mad the comments Donald Trump made Tuesday afternoon they would be investigated by the Secret Service. Hayden, a Republican who served under President George W. Bush as the Director of the National Security Agency, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was speaking on CNN with Jake Tapper as news broke that Donald Trump had just issued a thinly-veiled threat against Hillary Clinton.
Trump told supporters at a North Carolina rally that Clinton wants to take away the Second Amendment, and she would be able to do so if she’s allowed to appoint justices to the Supreme Court – unless “the Second Amendment people” stop her.
“If someone else had said that outside the hall, he’d be in the back of a police wagon now with the Secret Service questioning him,” General Hayden told Tapper, calling Trump’s remark “a very arresting comment.”
“If Trump governs in anyway close the language that he’s has used in the campaign I fear for our future,” Hayden concluded, calling Trump “a clear and present danger.”
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Later, Hayden told The Daily Beast, “If someone outside the hall had said it, I suspect the Secret Service would’ve considered it threat and detained the individual for questioning.”
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