But Clinton went on to say that Trump had nevertheless repeatedly engaged in “deplorable” behavior throughout his campaign. That’s when the first of four hijacked airplanes slammed into the north tower of New York City’s World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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Clinton, the Democratic nominee, was a NY senator at the time of the attacks, in which the Al Qaeda hijackers took over four USA passenger jets, piloting two into the World Trade Center towers and another into the Pentagon. Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, accused Trump of “defending his most offensive views and extremist allies”.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton campaigning in West Virginia.
Trump said in an interview on “Fox and Friends” Monday morning that: “Something’s going on, but I just hope she gets well and gets back on the trail and we’ll be seeing her at the debate”.
“Unfortunately there are people like that”, she said, “and he has lifted them up”.
“Obviously not everyone supporting Trump is part of the alt right, but alt right leaders are with Trump”, he said on Twitter.
NBC News-Wall Street Journal-Marist poll said Clinton leads Trump by one point among likely voters in Arizona, Nevada and New Hampshire.
Trump concluded his brief remarks speaking to Schlafly, saying, “we will never, ever let you down”.
His appointment comes amid a near daily competition by the Trump and Clinton campaigns to one-up the other in announcing support from national security figures.
Trump is expected to speak at the Catholic service for Schlafly, who died Monday at the age of 92.
At an “LGBT for Hillary” fundraiser, where Barbra Streisand performed, Clinton expanded on previous comments about many Trump supporters falling into a “basket of deplorables” that includes the groups listed above. Clinton’s lead swells to 10 percentage points among the wider swath of registered voters, 45 per cent to 35 per cent, similar to her 45 per cent to 37 per cent edge last month. I regret saying ‘half”-that was wrong”. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now how 11 million.
Trump, 70, fired back by calling her comments “INSULTING” on Twitter, then issuing an angry statement.
He added that millions of Americans support the Republican nominee because, “they are sick of corrupt career politicians like Hillary Clinton”.
A storm erupted over the weekend in the U.S. during a fundraising event after Clinton repeated a statement she made during a recent interview with Israel’s Channel 2 News.
Clinton backtracked on her “basket of deplorables” comment on Saturday. Obama said that small-town voters “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations”.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says she regrets describing half of her Republican rival Donald Trump’s supporters as a “basket of deplorables” in a speech, as the Trump campaign tried to capitalise on what it considered a major gaffe by the former secretary of state.
But Trump’s vice presidential running mate Mike Pence said she had disrespected voters.
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Trump tweets that he’ll be in Missouri with his wife, Melania, for the funeral of “a wonderful and truly respected woman”.
