With this one brief news conference, Clinton signaled loud and clear: I’ve done this before.
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9/11 Day, a nonprofit organization aiming to establish September 11 as a federally-recognized national day of service and remembrance, asked each of the principal presidential candidates – Clinton, Trump, Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein – to “suspend all campaign activity” to honor the day.
“So I won’t stop calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign”, she said.
“We found video footage of Bill Clinton repeatedly using the exact same phrase”.
Trump also sought on Friday to blame Clinton after reports that North Korea had tested a nuclear weapon, arguing it was the fourth such test since the Democrat became secretary of state in 2009 and that she should have ended the nation’s nuclear program before her tenure ended. It also ties in, she said, with the threat from Islamic State because terrorists must not get their hands on nuclear material.
Clinton, who has said she is the candidate who can unify a divided country, made the comment at an LGBT fundraiser Friday night at a New York City restaurant, with about 1,000 people in attendance.
The two White House hopefuls have waged a running battle this week over who is best placed to command the world’s most powerful military, with both touting their support from retired military leaders and attacking their opponent’s temperament and judgment.
In summer of 2013, various media outlets, including Deadline, reported King’s political talkshow, Politicking with Larry King, would be carried worldwide by RT, a network funded by the Russian government.
“It’s deplorable that Trump has built his campaign largely on prejudice and paranoia and given a national platform to hateful views and voices, including by retweeting fringe bigots with a few dozen followers and spreading their message to 11 million people”, she said. In a deluge of television advertisements in battleground states, Clinton and her Democratic allies have cast Trump as divisive and lacking the even temperament required of a president.
Clinton traveling press secretary Nick Merill tweeted a three-part response, saying, “Obviously not everyone supporting Trump is part of the alt right”. “You just have to look at the maps”, Trump said. “And it’s beyond one’s imagination to have a candidate for president praising a Russian autocrat like Vladimir Putin”.
“Right?” she said to laughter from attendees, which included entertainer Barbra Streisand. I’m not sure anything surprises us any more.
Even Vladimir Putin’s former employer, the KGB, probably never dreamed that it could make a Russian agent president of the United States, but Putin is coming close to achieving that greatest infiltration in the history of espionage. Bush’s intelligence briefer and later served as acting CIA director under Mr. Obama, and retired General David Petraeus.
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Clinton on Friday said when it comes to foreign policy, partisanship simply doesn’t work. “Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well”.
