Donald Trump has made some damning allegations against Alec Baldwin, who was involved in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the movie set of Rust.
“In my opinion, he had something to do with it,” Trump said of the devastating incident during a radio interview with conservative host Christ Stigal.
He continued: “if nothing else, how do you take a gun, whether it’s loaded or not loaded, how do you take a gun, point it at somebody that’s not even in the movie, and just point it at this person and pull the trigger, and now she’s dead.”
“Even if it was loaded, and, you know, that’s a weird thing, maybe he loaded it,” he said. “Who would put a gun, ‘Here, Alec, here’s your gun,’ ‘Oh, good,’ lift it up, point it at a person, and pull the trigger, and, ‘Oh, man, a bullet came out,’ she’s dead. So there’s something wrong with him, he’s a sick guy.”
“I’ve watched him for years. He gets into fistfights with reporters. I mean, everything he does, he’s a volatile guy. He’s a nutjob,” Trump said.
The shooting allegedly happened while the crew was rehearsing a scene that starred Baldwin. It’s been reported that Baldwin was practicing a scene where he shoots a gun at the camera for maximum effect. The gun was discharged and Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was injured.
Trump continued his tirade, questioning why Baldwin aimed a gun at a human.
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“If they handed me a gun, I would never point it at somebody and shoot it, you know. I don’t care about checking the gun. They hand you a gun you’re not going to point it at somebody,” he said.
“This was really a cinematographer, so it’s not even like an actress that’s on set with you, this was a cinematographer, so that means he took the gun and pointed it at a cinematographer, pulled the trigger and she was dead,” Trump added.
Baldwin and Trump have had a long-running feud, one that hit a boiling point after Baldwin imitated the former president on the popular sketch show, Saturday Night Live.
“He did, I thought, a poor job of imitating me,” Trump said on Thursday. “Alec Baldwin was terrible at imitating me and by the way, if I thought he was good and I didn’t like his politics or I didn’t like him, I would have said he was good but he was terrible. I don’t actually know him, but I’ve watched him over the years because of the fact that he did this so much on Saturday Night Live.”
Currently, no charges have been made in regards to the Rust shooting and it is an ongoing investigation.
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