“From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia”, Clinton said at a campaign rally.
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“She is a bigot, because you look at what’s happening to the inner cities”.
“I don’t know what Steve said”, he said in the interview on “Anderson Cooper 360”, before pivoting back to Clinton and her email controversies. “She is selling (minorities) down the tubes because she’s not doing anything for those communities”.
“When Democratic policies fail, they are left with only this one exhausted argument: You’re racist, you’re racist, you’re racist”, Trump told a crowd in Manchester, New Hampshire.
In targeting what she terms Trump’s bigotry, Clinton hopes to remind voters of controversial statements he has made over the course of the campaign.
“Through it all, he has continued pushing discredited conspiracy theories with racist undertones”, she said.
The schedules took on new importance this week after the AP analyzed the ones released so far and found that more than half the people outside the government who met or spoke by telephone with Clinton during the first half of her time as secretary of state had given money – either personally or through companies or groups – to the Clinton Foundation. “There’s no question about that”.
Trump, who also met on 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.
Trump was speaking in advance of a rally at which Clinton launched an explosive new line of attack against the Republican nominee, drawing a line between him and the Ku Klux Klan.
Clinton, the former USA secretary of state, has led Trump throughout most of the 2016 campaign. Her campaign has billed the speech – which follows a string of politically troubling developments for Clinton related to her private e-mail and her family’s foundation – as focusing on “Trump and his advisors” embrace of the disturbing “alt-right’ political philosophy”.
“Those who are wavering right now are just as likely to be thinking about supporting a third-party candidate instead, and not between Clinton and Trump”, said Tom Smith, who directs the Center for the Study of Politics and Society at the University of Chicago.
Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign event at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nev., on Thursday.
Trump’s team posted a video to his Instagram page with the caption, “The Clinton’s are the real predators…” “I call on Hillary Clinton to disavow this video and her campaign for this sickening act that has no place in our world”. “No conscience. No empathy”. “Now they brought it down”. Black Lives Matter activists and others have challenged her past use of the term “superpredators” this election cycle.
Trump’s attack video also incorporated a moment from the Democratic primary debates. As I said earlier, this problem has been getting worse – well, in 2016 it has gotten a lot worse, and we will all pay a price.
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“These are the people she cares about”. He told “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert that she fought for racial justice in the juvenile justice system in the South and against segregation in Alabama after finishing law school. This June, Trump accused a US federal judge of being biased against him because of his Mexican heritage, which prompted Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan – who endorsed Trump – to accuse Trump of voicing “the textbook definition of a racist comment”.
