Trump Advisor Says Hillary Clinton Should Be 'Shot For Treason'

By Emma G. Gallegos in News on Jul 20, 2016 7:45PM

Al Baldasaro defends the donations of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a news conference at Trump Tower on May 31, 2016. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

One of Donald Trump's veterans' issues advisors and die-hard supporters went on a Boston talk radio show Tuesday and delivered the following line: "Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason."

Al Baldasaro, a New Hampshire state representative and former marine who has periodically been trotted out by the campaign to defend Trump on veterans' issues, was on the Jeff Kuhner Show in Boston (tag line: "Liberalism's Worst Nightmare"). He was discussing Benghazi. He told the host:

"I'm a veteran that went to Desert Shield, Desert Storm. I'm also a father who sent a son to war, to Iraq, as a Marine Corps helicopter avionics technician. Hillary Clinton to me is the Jane Fonda of the Vietnam. She is a disgrace for the lies that she told those mothers about their children that got killed over there in Benghazi. She dropped the ball on over 400 emails requesting back up security. Something's wrong there."

He added, "This whole thing disgusts me. Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason."

You can listen to the segment here:

Baldasaro isn't the type to apologize for what he said. Last year when a female state representative spoke out against a law that would ban women going topless, he wrote on her Facebook page, "Your nipple would be the last one I'd want to see." When someone tried to shame him into apologizing, he advised them not to hold their breath. The Guardian has a profile of Baldasaro, a former Democrat-turned-Reagan Republican who believes President Barack Obama will finally reveal himself as Muslim after the election. The Guardian describes his relationship to the Trump campaign this way:

Baldasaro has been at nearly every rally Trump has held in the U.S. north-east over the past year, often onstage speaking in his role as co-chairman of the candidate’s New Hampshire veterans’ coalition. When Trump announced his plan to temporarily ban non-citizen Muslims from the U.S., Baldasaro was in the papers defending the idea. And when Trump talked about his support for veterans in the final Republican debate before the primary, he name-checked Baldasaro in front of 13 million viewers.

Trump has released a statement through his spokeswoman Hope Hick: "No, of course Mr. Trump does not feel this way."

Baldasaro, on the other hand, has doubled down. He told NBC, "I stand by it because treason is treason. When you take information on a server, that's a non-classified server, classified info, and you've got names of American CIA, Secret Service, ambassadors or whatever and you're sharing that out there, you're giving the enemy information."

Baldasaro regrets nothing:

Baldasaro is not alone in his sentiment. Trump voters are still fired up about Benghazi. Inside the convention—where "festering personal rage" against Clinton outshone support of Trump—Chris Christie led attendees in a rousing chant of "Lock her up!" Outside there was plenty of anti-Clinton rage and some Trump supporters told Mother Jones that the death penalty seemed like an appropriate punishment for Clinton: