Trump suggested at the event in which he and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton made back-to-back appearances that US generals had been stymied by the policies of Obama and Clinton, who served as the Democratic president’s first secretary of state.
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“As I said, many of Trump’s supporters are hard-working Americans who just don’t feel like the economy or our political system are working for them”, she added.
“Any time anyone states says that generals are rubbish or an individual is not a hero because he or she was captured I find it appalling”, Cooke said in a statement, referring to Trump saying Sen. “Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it”, Clinton said.
Clinton’s comments, in contrast, are clearly about people who were already voting for her opponent. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now how 11 million.
Mrs Clinton made the comments during a rare press conference, in response to a question about a Time magazine article which included quotes from Isil supporters openly rooting for Mr Trump. But she argued that the word “deplorable” was reasonable to describe much of Trump’s campaign.
And Trump himself tweeted: “Wow, Hillary Clinton was SO INSULTING to my supporters, millions of fantastic, hard working people”.
“Once we get through that transition period, we’ll see what the right answer is for the foundation and for me”, she added.
Donald Trump appears on stage at the CNN Republican Presidential Debate in Simi Valley, California on September 16, 2015.
The Democrat reinforced that idea with her comments at a fundraiser Friday night in NY, where she cast a broad swath of Trump backers in a negative light.
A new Hillary Clinton ad is turning to Republicans to make the case that Donald Trump is unfit for the Oval Office.
Clinton made her remarks at an LGBT fundraiser in NY late Friday.
“Those are people we have to understand and empathize with”, Mrs. Clinton said. “Now, some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America”, said the Democratic nominee, who was the country’s top diplomat during President Barack Obama’s first term.
Her statement of regret comes after her spokesman Nick Merrill tried to clarify her comments earlier on Saturday and after Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway called for an apology.
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Both Trump, a native New Yorker, and Clinton, who was senator from NY at the time of the attacks, have agreed to refrain from campaigning Sunday, continuing the tradition of setting aside partisan politics on the somber anniversary. “That may be one conversion therapy I endorse”. One poll indicates that Clinton holds 45.4 percent of the vote, while Trump has 42.2 percent.
