The Democratic presidential candidate’s visit to the West Coast comes amid a prosperous August for her campaign.
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Bill Clinton announced this week that if his wife is elected, the foundation will accept only U.S. contributions, that he will step down from the board and will no longer raise funds for the charity.
Donald Trump ratcheted up his attacks on the Clinton Foundation at a rally Tuesday night, claiming she and former President Bill Clinton set up a “business to profit from public office”.
“He is it eh Republican nominee!’ So I think it’s insane but I also think it’s harmful”, she added. “Donald Trump will fix it”, he said.
Trump was backed up by introductory speakers including R.W. Bray, the Texas GOP black engagement director who likened the Clinton’s support for tough-on-crime legislation in the 1990s to Jim Crow laws.
Trump pointed to two new reports concerning then-Secretary of State Clinton and her staff’s interactions with the Clinton Foundation and its donors as further evidence of “corruption”. “They had much more vim and vigor”, Trump said as the situation calmed, going clearly off script.
He said, “It has to investigate faster that amount given to Clinton as a favors for number of time by Special Prosecutor, hiding Clinton’s email crimes, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice can not be trusted”.
Clinton also pointed to Trump’s new campaign chief Stephen Bannon, who is on leave from the website Breitbart News. “Clinton said her lawyers reviewed all of her emails before destroying them”, he said.
Trump also accused Clinton of being behind a “vast criminal enterprise run out of the State Department”, suggesting that she had sold valuable access to those who donated to her family’s Clinton Foundation.
The report said the meetings between Clinton and donors did not appear to violate legal agreements she and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, signed before she joined the State Department.
Donors got special treatment from Clinton’s State Department.
But Trump has drawn fire for more than just his policies, drawing accusations of bigotry for his words about undocumented immigrants, Muslims and African-Americans.
“He’s taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America’s two major political parties”, she said.
In the Golden State, many of her events were at well-worn stops on the Democratic money trail.
Her speech came on a day when one poll showed her support reaching an important threshold – backing from just over half of all respondents.
The unveiling of the statewide group Wednesday comes as polls show Trump trailing Democrat Hillary Clinton overall in Wisconsin and among women.
Clinton has a massive get-out-the-vote operation-a highly coordinated, high-tech army that will be making phone calls and knocking on doors in a big-dollar effort to bring as many voters to the polls as possible.
“Maybe she is lazy”, Trump said.
According to Talking Points Memo’s Election Scorecard, which averages tracking polls in all 50 states, Clinton holds a 10-point polling advantage or greater in enough states to net her 288 electoral votes-18 more than the 270 needed to secure a spot in the Oval Office.
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“You want commonsense policies that will make life a little bit easier, and that’s why I am releasing our plan today”, Clinton said.
