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n the same day that the White House demanded Johnny Depp apologize for his comments joking about the assassination of Donald Trump, the president hosted a <a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/08/09/did-trump-just-threaten-hillary-says-second-amendment-people-ought-to-influence-clintons-scotus-nominees/" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration-line: none;">former campaign adviser</a> who called for Hillary Clinton to be “shot for treason.”Republican New Hampshire State Rep. Al Baldasaro “was sitting in one of the first two rows in the audience” in the East Room on Friday during a signing ceremony for a law promoting accountability at the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to a White House pool report. Baldasaro, an adviser to Trump on veterans affairs during the campaign, came under Secret Service investigation last year after he called for Clinton to be “<a href="https://soundcloud.com/buzzfeedandrew/trump-vet-co-chair-rep-al-baldasaro" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration-line: none;">put in the firing line and shot for treason</a>” for her handling of the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.Trump campaign spokesperson Hope Hicks later <a href="http://www.nh1.com/news/baldasaro-talks-1-on-1-with-nh1-news-about-saying-clinton-should-be-put-in-the-firing-line-/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration-line: none;">said</a> the campaign was “incredibly grateful for his support, but we don’t agree with his comments.” While Trump himself continued to shower his adviser with love publicly.“He’s a very fine person,” Trump said of Baldasaro. “He’s a person that loves the military and he loves the veterans.”<blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-error" data-lang="en" data-twitter-extracted-i1498345717242569487="true" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Waiting for <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration-line: none;">@POTUS</a> to speak hanging out with a hard charging Navy man <a href="https://twitter.com/ShoebobCarey" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration-line: none;">@ShoebobCarey</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MAGA?src=hash" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration-line: none;">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://t.co/JmpdjFmqpi" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration-line: none;">pic.twitter.com/JmpdjFmqpi</a></blockquote><blockquote data-lang="en" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">— Rep Al Baldasaro (@Al_Baldasaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/Al_Baldasaro/status/878272721351835648" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration-line: none;">June 23, 2017</a></blockquote>On Friday, Baldasaro was invited to the White House for Trump’s signing of the Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act, which makes it easier for the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire bad employees. According to the pool report, Baldasaro yelled out a thank you to the president for keeping his promise from the second row of the audience.<div data-toggle-group="story-14785918" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Two hours later, White House press secretary Sean Spicer denounced Depp’s recent comments about a Trump assassination and a production of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” for seemingly urging violence against the president. Depp came under fire for comments he made Thursday while promoting his new film, “The Libertine,” in England, saying, “When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?”</div>