Trump says Second Amendment people could do something about Clinton suggesting assassination

At a campaign rally at Trask Coliseum in Wilmington, North Carolina on August 9, 2016, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says: "Hillary wants to abolish — essentially abolish — the Second Amendment. By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is." The remark is widely interpreted as suggesting that "Second Amendment people" — gun owners — could use their weapons to stop a President Hillary Clinton from appointing liberal judges, potentially after her inauguration. The Secret Service reportedly speaks with the Trump campaign following the remark. Former CIA Director Michael Hayden tells CNN: "If someone else had said that outside the hall, he'd be in the back of a police wagon now." Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort claims Trump was referring to Second Amendment voters' political power. Former President Bill Clinton calls the remark "beyond the pale." The remark becomes one of the defining moments of 2016 campaign rhetoric and is later cited in analyses of Trump's pattern of violent and threatening language.