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Al Baldasaro, a campaign adviser on veterans's issues, told the "Howie Carr Show" he hadn’t spoken to Trump about his comments. But Baldasaro said Thursday the GOP presidential nominee "understands the political correctness garbage."

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"Donald Trump is an honorable guy,” he said in the interview, which was first reported by BuzzFeed. "I’m sure by now Donald Trump knows exactly what I said, in accordance with the laws of the land."

"Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason,” Baldasaro said on Wednesday, kicking off the firestorm. He called Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, a “disgrace” for her handling of the 2012 Benghazi attacks, which occurred while she was secretary of State.

“Mr. Trump and the campaign do not agree,” campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said Wednesday in response to the comments, according to The Washington Post.

Baldasaro brushed off reports that the Secret Service was investigating his comments and joked, “They wanted to take a picture with me."

He also blamed the media for creating a controversy around his statements and claimed his family members were getting threatening calls.

“What I said was, as a veteran, speaking as veteran, I said, if you get caught on a server with Secret Service, CIA, special forces names around the country on that server and somebody gets, that’s messages that could kill Americans, that’s treason,” he said, explaining his comments to Carr. “And then I said, treason, she should be shot in the firing squad. Now the liberal media took this and run. Naturally, you ought to to be proven for treason, you ought to go to court. But, we’re dealing with idiots."

"How do you denounce somebody because they are a military person, they’re expressing the freedom of speech?” he asked.