{"id":27885,"date":"2017-04-29T10:51:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T10:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=27885"},"modified":"2017-04-29T10:51:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T10:51:15","slug":"trump-pledges-fealty-to-nra-gun-lobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/politics\/trump-pledges-fealty-to-nra-gun-lobby.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump pledges fealty to NRA gun lobby"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTrump pledges fealty to NRA gun lobby<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
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\n\tPresident Donald Trump pledged to uphold Americans' right to possess guns on Friday in a speech that he used to revisit some 2016 election campaign themes from his vow to build a border wall to dismissing a Democratic senator as "Pocahontas."<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump pledged his allegiance to the powerful National Rifle Association, the country's leading gun-rights advocacy group, at a convention attended by thousands. Elected in part on a law-and-order platform, Trump was the first sitting president to address the NRA since fellow Republican Ronald Reagan in 1983.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t"As your president, I will never, ever infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms," Trump told thousands of people attending the NRA's annual convention in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump, whose candidacy last year was endorsed by the NRA, marks his first 100 days in office on Saturday with no major legislative achievements but with a long litany of actions to loosen federal regulations and review free trade agreements.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tStymied by his initial bid to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border when Congress balked at funding the initiative, Trump vowed he will sooner or later build the wall, which had been a signature campaign promise.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t"We need a wall. We’ll build the wall. Don’t even think about it," he said.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPolitics and his unexpected election victory on Nov. 8 over Democrat Hillary Clinton also featured prominently in his remarks.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeculating on who might run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, Trump brought up the name of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and used a derogatory nickname he had adopted for her last year.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t"It may be Pochahontas, and she is not big on the NRA," Trump said of Warren, who had once said she had some Native American ancestry.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPocahontas is a legendary Native American figure from the 1600s.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump later attended a fund-raiser for Republican candidate Karen Handel, who will face Democrat Jon Ossoff on June 20 to determine who will win a House of Representatives seat to replace Tom Price, who became Trump's health and human services secretary.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump, at the NRA event, returned time and again to the theme of responsible gun ownership.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t"You have a true friend and champion in the White House," he said. "We want to assure you of the sacred right of self defense for all of our citizens."<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tsource:-http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-guns-idUSKBN17U2SX<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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