Trump’s frequent contention that Clinton is a criminal has led crowds at his rallies to chant “lock her up”, as they did at his rally Friday in Erie, Pa.
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Her speech at a Warren manufacturing plant set forth a strategy that will strengthen the government’s grip on the economy, vastly expand spending and impose more than $1 trillion in new taxes.
Yet, there’s much to applaud in her vision, including plans to help families, raise the minimum wage, although less than in New York State, and tax multi-millionaires and corporations that move their headquarters overseas.
CLAIM: Clinton said Trump called for a new loophole in his Monday speech that would allow him “to pay less than half the current tax rate on income from many of his companies”.
Clinton argued that Trump’s tax plan would further open the divide between rich and poor, and that his proposal would benefit the wealthiest Americans, including Trump and his family, with little benefit for the middle class.
Trump has previously criticized Clinton for supporting the Iraq War in 2003 while she was a USA senator.
Clinton is particularly off-base with her so-called Exit Tax, which would be levied on companies that leave the United States to avoid the oppressive US corporate tax rate and taxes on overseas earnings. “Even if the Republican ticket fails in the battle for the White House, Mr. Pence wants to preserve his future viability, a goal that has created a delicate dance for him”, the Times story says.
“I oppose it now, I’ll oppose it after the election, and I’ll oppose it as president”, she said, though she did not mention her previous support of the trade agreement. Trump and his campaign had quickly sought to douse the flames, insisting the Republican flag bearer was merely urging gun rights supporters to reject her candidacy at the ballot box.
Clinton’s running mate, Virginia Sen.
The problem for Clinton is that she vocally backed the deal while serving as secretary of state, a fact that Trump – like Clinton’s defeated Democratic rival, Bernie Sanders – uses as one of his more effective, and accurate, attack lines.
Contrast that with Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton who spoke Thursday at Futuramic Tool & Engineering in Warren Clinton where she tried to paint a stark contrast with what Trump said at the Detroit Economic Club, John Gallagher and Kathleen Gray of the Detroit Free Press write. She slammed Trump’s “casual cruelty to a gold star family”, referring to the billionaire’s clash with the parents of a Muslim American soldier who was killed in action.
“When Donald Trump visited Detroit on Monday, he talked only of failure, poverty, and crime”, Clinton said.
Trump, speaking to home builders Thursday in Florida, reminisced about watching his father, Fred, a New York City developer, conduct business. The original 13-member group announced last week featured no women – but did have six men named Steve.
This new uncertainty comes as Republicans and Democrats round on Trump over a series of controversial comments.
The Republican nominee recalled moments in his youth when he’d play with blocks near his father’s desk while the elder Trump brokered deals. Eight of them are women.
Trump recalled that his “father would go and he’d pick up the saw dust and he’d pick up the nails”.
Her appearance followed Trump’s own speech on the economy, which he delivered in MI on Monday.
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Clinton also accused Trump of fear-mongering when it comes to trade.
