Trump’s guest for the evening was United Kingdom far-right leader Nigel Farage, who as a younger man boasted that his initials matched those of the white supremacist National Front and sang jaunty ditties about gassing jews.
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The Clinton campaign figures her late-summer advantage gives her few incentives to personally push back against the email criticism or allegations of pay-for-play.
The New York Times reported recently that she told the Federal Bureau of Investigation former Secretary of State Colin Powell advised her to use a personal email account, though Mr. Powell didn’t use a private server run out of his home the way Mrs. Clinton did.
On average, the former secretary of state would win by 108 electoral college votes.
Hillary Clinton is pushing back on a report this week that she took many meetings with Clinton Foundation donors as secretary of state, saying there’s “a lot of smoke” but “no fire”. Doesn’t that mean he is calling for an investigation of himself?
Her last full-blown news conference was December 2015 in Iowa, more than 260 days.
Clinton is not expected to discuss the issue during a Thursday speech in Reno, Nevada, which will be focused on attacking Trump to the so-called “alt right” movement within the Republican Party that has strayed from mainstream conservatism.
Bill Clinton said changes at the foundation are needed if Hillary Clinton becomes president that weren’t necessary when she led the State Department.
Clinton called the AP report “a lot of smoke and.no fire”, since donors on the list included global leaders like Elie Wiesel and Melinda Gates – people she said she would have met with anyway as Secretary of State. State Department officials have said they are unaware of any agency actions influenced by the foundation.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has criticized the links between the foundation and the State Department, accusing the Clintons of establishing “a business to profit from public office”.
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“But I will say this, if I was an American citizen, I wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton if you paid me”. The meeting is scheduled for September 19-21, which means it will happen exactly one week before his wife’s first presidential debate in NY.
