Clinton said on Friday evening that you could put half of the Republican presidential nominee’s supporters in a “basket of deplorables”, which she said would include racists, xenophobes, and homophobes.
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Trump said Wednesday night that most Russians respect Putin whereas only half of Americans approve of President Obama.
Hillary Clinton says she regrets describing half of Donald Trump supporters as a “basket of deplorables”. “And he has lifted them up”.
One day after promising to be aspirational & uplifting, Hillary insults millions of Americans. “Donald Trump is always the first person to say, when we say enormous crowds turn out for rallies. he’s always the first one to say, ‘This is a movement”.
Trump said in a statement Saturday that “her true feelings came out, showing bigotry and hatred for millions of Americans”.
But she went on to bash Trump, listing a number of “deplorable” things about her opponent.
If there was any question that the gloves are off and election 2016 is a below-the-belt cage match, they were dispelled yesterday when Hillary Clinton said that ISIS is praying to Allah that Donald Trump gets elected president.
Just to make certain he was perfectly clear, he added, according to Bloomberg: “I think this is the biggest miscalculation since people thought Hitler was a good guy”.
Clinton’s remarks were aired as she and Trump, her Republican rival and a NY native, visited the memorial to the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers.
But Trump on Saturday sought to use Clinton’s comments to make the same charge about her.
More than half of voters – 53 percent – view Clinton as more capable of handling the public scrutiny that comes with serving as commander-in-chief, compared to 43 percent who said the same of Trump. I mean, you can say, oh, isn’t that a awful thing? Her tenure has brought us only war, destruction and death.
“These are the desperate attacks of a flailing campaign sinking in the polls, and characteristics of someone woefully unfit for the presidency of the United States”, Jason Miller, the candidate’s senior communications adviser, said in the statement.
“Because she’s being so protected, she could walk into this arena right now and shoot somebody with 20,000 people watching right smack in the middle of the heart and she wouldn’t be prosecuted, okay?” he said.
“You actually have to know what you are talking about and you actually have to have done your homework”.
The group is scheduled to meet at the New York Historical Society.
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They also noted that while Romney’s remarks “dovetailed nicely” with (millionaire) Barack Obama’s assertion that millionaire Romney was out of touch, Clinton’s remarks were merely an “extension of her message”.
