Speaking at an evening fundraiser in NY, the former USA secretary of state said Trump had given voice to hateful rhetoric from such individuals through his behaviour as a candidate for the White House. “Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it”, she said, before stressing that other Trump supporters are frustrated and need sympathy. And unfortunately there are people like that and he has lifted them up.
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Trump, speaking on Friday at the conservative Value Voters summit in Washington, painted Clinton as a “massive failure” while she was America’s top diplomat from 2009 to early 2013, blaming her for the current turmoil in the Middle East.
“She even mysteriously lost 13 different phones before the Federal Bureau of Investigation could get them some were even destroyed with a hammer”, he said.
“It’s a war we shouldn’t have been in, number one”, Trump said in the interview.
As the The New York Times editorial board warned today, there is “a debate disaster waiting to happen” unless the moderators do better then Lauer, who “largely neglected to ask penetrating questions, call out falsehoods or insist on answers when it was obvious that Mr. Trump’s responses had drifted off”. Clinton, many Democrats and even some in his own Republican party balked.
“Just when Hillary Clinton said she was going to start running a positive campaign, she ripped off her mask and revealed her true contempt for everyday Americans”, Jason Miller, senior communications adviser for Trump’s campaign, said in a statement.
“Wow, Hillary Clinton was SO INSULTING to my supporters, millions of wonderful, hard-working people”.
“Wow, Hillary Clinton was SO INSULTING to my supporters”, wrote Trump on his Twitter account.
Donald Trump calls out to supporters in Charlotte, North Carolina. She then pivoted and tried to characterize the other half of Trump’s supporters, putting them in “that other basket” and saying they need understanding and empathy.
“It’s deplorable that he’s attacked a federal judge for his ‘Mexican heritage, ‘ bullied a Gold Star family due to their Muslim faith, and promoted the lie that our first black president is not a true American”, she said.
According to a Reuters poll in the spring, about 50% of Trump’s supporters described African-Americans as more violent and more criminal than whites, and 40% described them as “lazier” than whites.
Trump, a NY businessman who has never run for political office before, regularly says things that some consider insulting, racist or off-color.
Republican strategist Ana Navarro, who has been highly critical of Trump, said Clinton might have crossed an important line.
Clinton’s speech somewhat resembles comments made by GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney during the 2012 election, in which he told a private audience of donors that 47 percent of voters will inevitably opt for President Barack Obama, as they are rely on government handouts. While the fight between Trump and Clinton has been bitter and personal, Friday’s remarks were unusually forthright for Clinton.
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“We want to win for jobs, we want to win for strong military and for the vets, we want to protect our Second Amendment but I want to win for the evangelicals because they have been so good to me”, Trump said.
