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Manafort said the attention on the comments were the "Clinton narrative"

Washington (CNN) Donald Trump's campaign chairman said Sunday the Republican presidential nominee's comments last week that gun advocates could deal with Hillary Clinton should not be interpreted as a threat.

"Most people did not interpret it that way, it was not at all meant to be a threat," Paul Manafort told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."

Manafort said the attention on the comments were the "Clinton narrative" being carried by the media, despite criticism from some Republicans and even a Trump supporter at the rally who thought the comments shouldn't have been said in public.

"Hillary wants to abolish -- essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know," Trump said on Tuesday.

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