Ronald Reagan’s daughter, Patti Davis, lambastes Donald Trump on Facebook for his call for gun owners to stop Hillary Clinton appointing Supreme Court judges should she be elected president in November.
“I am the daughter of a man who was shot by someone who got his inspiration from a movie, someone who believed if he killed the President the actress from that movie would notice him,” she writes, referring to her father’s Jodie Foster-obsessed would-be assassin John Hinckley.
“Your glib and horrifying comment about ‘Second Amendment people’ was heard around the world,” she continues, before warning that Trump’s comment could spur someone to carry out a violent act, and accusing him of disregarding such a danger.
“It was heard by the person sitting alone in a room, locked in his own dark fantasies, who sees unbridled violence as a way to make his mark in the world, and is just looking for ideas,” she says. “Yes, Mr. Trump, words matter. But then you know that, which makes this all even more horrifying.
https://www.facebook.com/patti.davis.39/posts/1048032258613592?pnref=story
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