{"id":45815,"date":"2016-08-11T11:19:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T15:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=45815"},"modified":"2016-08-11T11:20:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T15:20:34","slug":"jon-voight-rips-media-for-distorting-trumps-second-amendment-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=45815","title":{"rendered":"Jon Voight Rips Media for \u2018Distorting\u2019 Trump\u2019s \u2018Second Amendment\u2019 Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<header class=\"articleheader\">\n<figure class=\"figurearticlefeatured\">\n<div class=\"featured-container\">\n<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-isc-bbn-full size-isc-bbn-full wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2016\/08\/Voight-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Voight\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>Alberto E. Rodriguez\/Getty Images<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"byline\"><span class=\"by-author\"><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <a class=\"byauthor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/author\/daniel-nussbaum\/\">DANIEL NUSSBAUM<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div id=\"EmailOptin\" class=\"desktop\"><\/div>\n<h2>Actor and Donald Trump supporter Jon Voight lashed out at the media Tuesday for mischaracterizing the Republican presidential nominee\u2019s now-famous \u201cSecond Amendment\u201d comment, which news outlets were quick to insinuate was a violent threat against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cPeople are trying to make him look foolish,\u201d the 77-year-old actor said of Trump in an impromptu <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2016\/08\/10\/jon-voight-donald-trump-speech-hillary-clinton-2nd-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview with TMZ<\/a> at a restaurant in Beverly Hills. \u201cHe\u2019s a terrific guy. I know him personally. He\u2019s got a good sense of humor. He\u2019s off the cuff. He\u2019s a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vBETeDjfBLs?feature=oembed\" width=\"990\" height=\"557\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Trump made the comment in question during a Tuesday campaign stop in North Carolina while discussing what Clinton might do if she were to win the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHillary wants to abolish \u2014 essentially abolish the Second Amendment.\u00a0By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,\u201d Trump said, adding: \u201cAlthough the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>News outlets were quick to paint Trump\u2019s comment as a violent threat against Clinton\u2019s life, while the candidate\u2019s campaign and supporters said he was referring to the political power of Second Amendment supporters to exert pressure on politicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t say that word,\u201d Voight protested when the TMZ reporter said Trump had joked about \u201cassassinating\u201d Clinton. \u201cDon\u2019t do that, don\u2019t distort what he said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can be in a lot of trouble if people want to distort your words,\u201d the actor added. \u201cThat\u2019s what he goes through. All the time, every time. He\u2019s being attacked continuously. They\u2019re taking apart everything he does. He made a wonderful speech yesterday. Everybody should sit down and listen to that speech, because it\u2019s full of substance and it tells you what the problems are, and it tells you how to answer those problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Voight first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-hollywood\/2016\/03\/09\/jon-voight-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">endorsed Trump<\/a> in an interview with Breitbart News\u2019s Joel Pollak in March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s an answer to our problems. We need to get behind him. The Republicans need to unite behind this man,\u201d Voight told Breitbart in March. \u201cWe need somebody to go in and reconstruct us in a sort of way, get us back to where we were, who we need to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-hollywood\/2016\/08\/10\/jon-voight-rips-media-distorting-trumps-2nd-amendment-comment\/\">http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-hollywood\/2016\/08\/10\/jon-voight-rips-media-distorting-trumps-2nd-amendment-comment\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}