At first glance, Hillary Clinton’s plan to address the alt-right/Donald Trump nexus in her Thursday speech could’ve appeared ill-advised.
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Prominent black voices throughout the country have scolded Trump’s outreach methods, calling them tone-deaf and out of touch.
Prior to Trump’s briefing, leading Democrats questioned whether the celebrity businessman could responsibly handle receiving sensitive information because of some of his comments, including the suggestion that Russian Federation should attempt to hack Clinton’s emails.
Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump is eroding quicker than a beach front in a hurricane. Unfortunately for Trump, he’s been unable to carry his primary election momentum into the race against Democratic nominee #Hillary Clinton, prompting many on the political right to take their support elsewhere, as reported by The Hill on August 27. Trump’s winked at them ever since, and when he brought Breitbart’s Stephen Bannon on board as campaign CEO he was practically giving them back rubs. With Johnson and Stein factored in, Clinton’s lead drops to 4 percentage point, with 42 percent backing the Democratic nominee and compared to 38 percent for Trump, 8 percent for Johnson and 3 percent for Stein. Its views are seen by many as white supremacist and anti-Semitic.
Clinton, meanwhile, kept up her verbal assault on Trump’s campaign, asserting in an MSNBC interview Friday that it is built on “prejudice and paranoia” and caters to a radical fringe of the Republican Party. Flake has been critical of Trump in the past, but has admitted that he is actually trying to persuade his colleagues to “distance themselves” from the GOP nominee.
“Every time an African American citizen, or any citizen, loses their job to an illegal immigrant, the rights of that American citizen have been totally violated”, he argued.
In more recent days, Trump has attempted to salvage his image with appeals nominally aimed at African Americans. Joni Ernst’s annual “Roast and Ride” fundraiser at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.
At the same event, he referenced Clinton’s use of the term “super predators” in 1996 to describe violent criminals, a term widely seen as racist and that Clinton has said she regretted using.
“Those courageous men and women who marched, and sat, and bled for civil rights in American must not have done so in vain”, Clinton said, though she did not mention Trump’s name. He was chosen as the group’s leader.
“I saw the act in the kaleidoscope of life, liberty and property”, he told CNN’s Dana Bash in 2006. He said he hoped young people learned from the mistakes of his youth.
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As President Barack Obama’s secretary of state, Clinton held a high security clearance and received a copy of the President’s Daily Brief – the highest-level US intelligence document that includes sensitive intelligence and analysis from around the world.
