“There’s a reason the most hateful fringe of the right wing is supporting Donald Trump”, Hillary Clinton just said on Twitter as she released a new ad linking Donald Trump and the white supremacist “alt-right” movement. “He said the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there”, she continued.
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Clinton’s use of a private email system as President Barack Obama’s first-term secretary of state and the Clinton Foundation’s ties to governments and corporations that have business with the US have come under increasing attack by Republican nominee Donald Trump after the release this week of email exchanges between a former Clinton Foundation executive and top Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
Trump, who also met Thursday in NY with members of a new Republican Party initiative meant to train young – and largely minority – volunteers, has been working to win over blacks and Latinos in light of his past inflammatory comments and has been claiming that the Democrats have taken minority voters’ support for granted.
He added: “She lies and she smears and she paints decent Americans as racists”.
A day earlier, Trump flatly accused Clinton of being a “bigot” for only seeing African-Americans as votes, part of his week-long pitch aimed at drawing African-Americans to his campaign.
That one came shortly after the Charleston massacre, when Democrats and Republicans alike were doing everything they could to heal racial divides.
He also criticized Hillary Clinton for her ties to the Clinton Foundation while at the State Department and called for the Democratic presidential nominee to be more transparent as well.
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”.
That’s still a sizable gap, and the fact that MI hasn’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1988 would suggest there are greener pastures where Trump should be devoting his time.
The point of Clinton’s speech, according to the New York Times, was to point out Trump’s associations with the alt-right and introduce the group and its agenda to a national audience.
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.
Trailing in nearly every swing state, he signalled this week that he is thinking about abandoning his key promise to deport all 11 million illegal immigrants.
An Associated Press report found that more than half the people outside the government who met or spoke by telephone with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state had given money – either personally or through companies or groups – to the Clinton Foundation.
“People who want their laws enforced and respected, and who want their border secured, are not racists”, he said.
Trump, who frequently tries to turn Clinton’s criticism back around on her, said this week that she is the real “bigot”.
And “people who support the police.are not prejudiced”, Trump said.
Trump on his immigration “softening”: “I don’t think it’s a softening”.
Donald Trump is meeting with participants in a new Republican Party initiative meant to train young – and largely minority – campaign volunteers.
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Clinton said Wednesday in a CNN interview that Trump “is taking a hate movement mainstream”.
