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A United States Secret Service official confirmed to CNN on Wednesday that the USSS has spoken to the Trump campaign regarding his Second Amendment comments.

"There has been more than one conversation" on the topic, the official told CNN.

The campaign told USSS Donald Trump did not intend to incite violence.

The Trump campaign declined to comment on what the Secret Service official told CNN.

Trump caused an uproar on Tuesday afternoon when he said at a rally that Second Amendment defenders might be able to stop Clinton from appointing justices to the Supreme Court who could weaken gun rights.

"Hillary wants to abolish -- essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know," Trump said.

"But I tell you what, that will be a horrible day, if Hillary gets to put her judges in, right now we're tied."

The comments were interpreted by some of Trump's opponents as him encouraging violence against Clinton, even after the Republican nominee clarified he was simply trying to unify gun owners against Clinton in the voting booth.

"This is a political movement. This is a strong political movement, the Second Amendment," Trump said to Fox News' Sean Hannity. "And there can be no other interpretation ... I mean, give me a break."

The Secret Service's communications director Cathy Milhoan did not confirm the conversations between the campaign and the Secret Service, but said in a statement quoted by CNN that "the U.S. Secret Service is aware of Mr. Trump's comments."

The Republican presidential nominee's supporters Wednesday attempted to quell the controversy, saying either that Trump was joking or that Democrats and the media were spinning it into something bigger than it was.

Corey Lewandowski, Trump's former campaign manager, said the billionaire businessman was trying to unite Second Amendment supporters to turn out to defeat Clinton.

"This was a joke ... He wasn't inciting violence," Lewandowski told Chris Cuomo on CNN's New Day.

Ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that the Clinton campaign and the press were misconstruing Trump's words.

"What he intended is very, very simple -- that (gun owners) should vote against her," Giuliani said on ABC's Good Morning America. "He had no idea that anybody would interpret his words that way. It was so obvious to all of us what he meant."