Clinton needs to retain support from minority voters to defeat her Republican rival in the November 8 election and was delivering a speech in Nevada in which she blasted him as a divisive candidate stoking racist groups.
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“A man who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far dark reaches of the internet should never run our government or command our military”, Clinton said. “If he doesn’t respect all Americans, how can he serve all Americans?”
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“Now, I know some people still want to give Trump the benefit of the doubt”. “People who speak out against radical Islam, and who warn about refugees, are not Islamophobes. She is attacking all of the decent people of all backgrounds who support this incredible, once-in-a-lifetime movement”.
Trump also accused Clinton using the high-profile speech to change the subject away from the her own political troubles centered on her use of a private e-mail server while serving as Secretary of State.
Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager, released a statement after the speech saying: “Donald Trump is talking about issues; Hillary Clinton is talking about Donald Trump”.
Clinton devoted large portions of her speech to making overtures to Republicans, calling this election “a moment of reckoning for every Republican dismayed that the party of Lincoln has become the party of Trump”.
Clinton tied Trump to famed conspiracy theorists on Thursday, including one who believes 9/11 was an inside job-and whom Trump insisted he ‘will not let down’.
“The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump campaign represents a landmark achievement for the ‘alt-right, ‘” Clinton said here.
“Even the Republican Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, described that as ‘the textbook definition of a racist comment.’ To this day, he’s never apologized to Judge Curiel”, she said. We need good debates.
This short passage stitched together so many of Clinton’s main attacks today against the Republican nominee – that Trump’s business career involved racial exploitation; that his worldview is rooted in racist fringe ideas; that he takes cues from wholly disreputable sources; and that all of these characteristics make him unsuited to the most important position in the United States.
The Clinton speech came as a new batch of e-mails released this week reignited questions about how she handled donors to the sprawling Clinton Foundation while in the Obama administration. “What he’s doing here is more sinister”.
“This week the curtain was lifted”.
In a tweet shortly after Clinton wrapped up her speech in the swing state of Nevada, Trump said she “is pandering to the worst instincts in our society”.
Mr Trump has been heavily criticised by minorities for his proposals on immigration, which include deporting millions of undocumented foreigners, building a wall along the Mexican border, and suspending Muslim immigration to shore up national security. For example, Breitbart has a section called “black crime”. The Republican standard-bearer has sharpened his attacks on Clinton in recent weeks while at the same time trying to recast himself as someone who cares about the problems of black and Hispanic voters.
Conservative activist and author Ann Coulter has been taking Trump to task on Twitter and talk shows in recent days amid reports that he is backing off his plan to remove all the roughly 11 million immigrants now in the country illegally.
Trump’s efforts to woo minorities were unlikely to work, said Bernard Fraga, a political science professor at Indiana University whose research involves race and politics.
Bannon told the magazine Mother Jones during the Republican National Convention last month that the website was “the platform for the alt-right”, a brand of US political conservatism associated with white nationalism and nativism.
“He’s taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America’s two major political parties”, she said.
The Trump campaign has repeatedly said it rejects the term “alt right” and “continues to disavow any groups or individuals associated with a message of hate”.
“She lies, she smears, she paints decent Americans as racists”, said Trump, who then defended some of the core – and to some people, divisive – ideas of his candidacy.
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“But the hard truth is, there’s no other Donald Trump”.
