Not that Elizabeth Warren had held back in her words heretofore denouncing Donald Trump.

But in response to the Republican presidential nominee’s alarming suggestion Tuesday that “Second Amendment people” act against Hillary Clinton if she is elected, Warren was as unequivocal as seemingly possible.

“He’s a pathetic coward who can’t handle the fact that he’s losing to a girl,” the Massachusetts senator tweeted, as she often does when it comes to Trump.

.@realDonaldTrump makes death threats because he's a pathetic coward who can’t handle the fact that he’s losing to a girl. — Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) August 9, 2016

Warren followed with a second tweet that Trump’s “reckless comments sound like a two-bit dictator.”

“Not a man who wants to lead the greatest democracy on the planet,” she said.


Trump’s remarks—largely interpreted as a suggestion that gun rights supporters take action to stop Clinton from appointing Supreme Court justices if she is elected president—came Tuesday afternoon during a campaign rally in Wilmington, North Carolina.

“Hillary wants to abolish—essentially, abolish—the Second Amendment,” Trump said (falsely, per PolitiFact), garnering boos from the crowd.

“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” he said. “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is.”

Trump went on to tout his endorsement from the National Rifle Association and pledged to appoint Supreme Court justices who were supportive of gun rights.

Trump's full comments on the Second Amendment today: pic.twitter.com/uuTNfF0jJA — Ashley Killough (@KilloughCNN) August 9, 2016

However, his remarks that “Second Amendment people” could act to stop Clinton, if elected, from making Supreme Court appointments left many aghast the Republican nominee was hinting or joking about a hypothetical assassination.

“This is simple—what Trump is saying is dangerous,” Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, responded Tuesday. “A person seeking to be the President of the United States should not suggest violence in any way.”

In an effort to clarify or recast his candidate’s remarks, Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller released a statement on the “dishonest media.”

“It’s called the power of unification – 2nd Amendment people have amazing spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power,” Miller said. “And this year, they will be voting in record numbers, and it won’t be for Hillary Clinton, it will be for Donald Trump.”


Following multiple press inquiries, the U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday evening that they were “aware” of Trump’s comments.