Trump warns "hard" supporters could very badly turn things so provoked

President Donald Trump was discussed Friday in a recent interview with Breitbart News, in which he warned his "hard" supporters of "very badly," if his political opponents provoked him.

"I can tell you that I have the support of the police, the support of the army, the support of the Bikers for Trump," Trump told Breitbart in an interview on Monday after being questioned about the "why the left is fighting fiercely ".

"I have hard people, but they do not do it harshly – until they reach a certain point, and that would then be very bad, very bad," he said. declared.

Trump tweeted a link promoting the website Thursday night after several Democrats and political commentators had raised issues with these comments and about whether they were a potential threat of violence.

"I think it's more than an implicit threat," said Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii in a Wednesday night interview on MSNBC. "It seems to me that he is encouraging them to engage in something that is probably illegal, like attacking people."

But Trump suppressed the tweet Friday morning after the news of the massacre at two mosques in New Zealand, without however immediately say whether the attacks have had an impact on the decision. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News on the deleted tweet.

White House advisor Kellyanne Conway, in an interview with CNN late Thursday, disputed the fact that the president was still advocating the violence of his supporters.

"You have to read the entirety of the interview," Conway said. "He spoke of the peace and kindness of many who are otherwise hard."

Although the comments follow a tendency of the president to use veiled language to highlight the "tenacity" of his supporters against what he describes as a radical and unbalanced resistance.

"They are so lucky that we are peaceful," said Trump at a rally for the September 2018 campaign. "Law Enforcement, Army, Construction Workers, Bikers for Trump."

Trump added, "But they are peaceful people and Antifa and all, they hope better than they stay like that."

Similarly, during the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump appeared to raise the specter of possible violence against his opponent Hillary Clinton when he spoke at a demonstration in North Carolina of his desire to reinforce the gun laws of the country.

"If she chooses her judges, you can not do anything, dear friends," said Trump. "Although people of the Second Amendment – maybe there are, I do not know."

At the time, Trump and his campaign had insisted that he was simply urging gun rights advocates to vote against Clinton.