Republican Donald Trump on Monday claimed that he never suggested club-goers attacked in the Orlando massacre should have been armed.
Trump said on Twitter that when he said “if, within the Orlando club, you had some people with guns, I was obviously talking about additional guards or employees.”
But Trump was not so obviously talking about guards or employees. The presumptive GOP nominee has repeatedly suggested in the days since the attack that had the victims been armed, things would have gone differently.
“It’s too bad that some of the young people that were killed over the weekend didn’t have guns, you know, attached to their hips, frankly, and, you know, where bullets could have flown in the opposite direction,” he told conservative radio the day after the attack.