“She dropped the ball on over 400 emails requesting back up security. Something’s wrong there,” New Hampshire state representative Al Baldasaro said. | AP Photo Secret Service investigating Trump delegate's Clinton slam The Trump campaign Wednesday distanced itself from the delegate's remarks.

The Secret Service is investigating comments made by New Hampshire state representative Al Baldasaro in which he said Hillary Clinton “should be put in the firing line and shot for treason.”

“The U.S. Secret Service is aware of this matter and will conduct the appropriate investigation,” Secret Service spokesman Robert Hoback told POLITICO in an email.


Baldasaro's comments, which were first reported by BuzzFeed, came during an interview on the Jeff Kuhner Show, during which he also called Clinton “a piece of garbage.”

“She is a disgrace for the lies that she told those mothers about their children that got killed over there in Benghazi,” he said. “She dropped the ball on over 400 emails requesting back up security. Something’s wrong there.”

Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, told POLITICO in an email that, "The campaign does not agree with these statements."

Baldasaro, who is a Trump delegate, has appeared at Trump campaign events and has advised him on veterans issues.

Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri condemned the remarks from Baldasaro.

“Donald Trump's overtaking of the Republican party — and his constant escalation of outrageous rhetoric — is in danger of mainstreaming the kind of hatred that has long been relegated to the fringes of American politics where it belongs," she said in an email statement to POLITICO. "This week at the Republican convention, we've seen the clearest embodiment yet of this dangerous phenomenon."