Hillary Clinton defended her family foundation’s plan to change its configuration if she is elected president, and said neither she nor aides acted inappropriately in interactions with foundation donors while she was secretary of state.
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“We’ve always had great relationships with the African American community and I’ve made it such a focal point”, Trump said on Thursday before a meeting at his NY headquarters with black and Hispanic Republicans. “She doesn’t care what her policies have done to your communities”. “If any American voter is troubled by the idea that the Clintons want to continue working to solve the AIDS crisis on the side while Hillary Clinton is president, then don’t vote for her”.
“Hillary Clinton created an illegal private email server – deliberately, willfully and with total premedication – premeditation”, Trump said, correcting himself. Even some supporters have said Clinton faces a perception problem over the issue.
According to experts, the emails confirm donors were gaining access to Clinton, yet there is no evidence she granted them special favors, an important distinction that may determine how damaging the controversy is to Clinton’s campaign.
Hours earlier, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called the foundation “the most corrupt enterprise in political history” adding, “It must be shut down immediately”.
On Wednesday evening, Hillary Clinton said the AP had only “looked at a small portion of my time” as secretary of state and had drawn the conclusion that her meetings with Nobel laureates – such as Peace Prize victor Elie Wiesel – were connected to the foundation rather than their work as global leaders.
“The Clintons’ made the State Department into the same kind of Pay-to-Play operations as the Arkansas Government was: pay the Clinton Foundation huge sums of money and throw in some big speaking fees for Bill Clinton and you got to play with the State Department”, Trump said at a campaign rally Monday night in Akron, Ohio.
The Presidential hopeful said rumours that she is in poor health are part of a “wacky strategy” against her. The more disciplined Trump followed a campaign shake-up last week that brought in veteran pollster Kellyanne Conway as campaign manager.
“You know, I might like the first way better”. He also met on Thursday morning with black and Hispanic Republicans at his NY headquarters. That lack of support is high compared with how people responded to the poll during the 2012 presidential election between Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney.
“They’ve been very disrespectful, as far as I’m concerned, to the African-American population in this country”, Trump said.
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In a four-way general election match-up, Clinton holds a 5-point margin over Trump 43-38 percent, while Libertarian Gary Johnson garners 11 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein gets 5 percent.
