White House
August 9, 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
The White House would like to clarify President Trump’s remarks
from earlier today that requiring background checks for purchases of assault rifles
might be appropriate given these weapons’ destructive potential. This requirement was not meant to apply to
candidates for our nation’s highest office, which brings with it not only
command of the United States’ armed forces but the ability to launch a nuclear
strike. The White House calls your
attention to the key difference that while an individual citizen will only be
guided by his own faculties in the deployment of an assault rifle, the President
of the United States has access to advisers whose expertise has been verified
by the national security community or Fox News before he presses “the button.” Therefore,
the White House calls on the press corps to cease its fruitless efforts to question
the President’s fitness for office and leave all “background checks” to the
opioid-addled citizenry, as called for in the Constitution.
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