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Following Trump's
comment at a rally on Tuesday in which he suggested that gun
rights activists could stop Clinton from appointing liberal
anti-gun justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, a federal official
familiar with the matter told Reuters that there had been no
formal conversations between the Secret Service and the Trump
campaign.
Earlier CNN had reported that there had been multiple
conversations between the campaign and the agency.
"If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks,"
Trump told a North Carolina campaign rally on Tuesday. "Although
the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know," he
added, leading some critics to believe Trump was referring to
gun violence against his rival.
The controversy came as the campaign tried to stay on message
after a contentious previous week. Trump weathered criticism
within his own party for delaying endorsements of fellow
Republicans and for a prolonged clash with the family of a
fallen Muslim American U.S. Army captain.
The campaign denied that inciting violence had been the intent
of Tuesday's remark, and on Wednesday said there had been no
conversations with the Secret Service about it.
"No such meeting or conversation ever happened," Trump wrote on
Twitter, accusing CNN of having made up the report.
(Reporting by Alana Wise; Editing by Jonathan Oatis and Sandra
Maler)
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