A federal official on Wednesday denied a news report that the U.S. Secret Service had formally spoken with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's presidential campaign regarding his suggestion a day earlier that gun rights activists could stop Democratic rival Hillary Clinton from curtailing their access to firearms.
Pushing back against a CNN report that the law enforcement agency had had "more than one" exchange with the Trump camp about the remark, an official familiar with the matter told the Reuters news agency there had been no formal conversations with the campaign regarding the comment made to supporters the day before.
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