Hillary Clinton received her first national security briefing Saturday as the Democratic presidential nominee, meeting with intelligence officials for an overview of the major threats facing the nation around the globe.
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Donald Trump is escalating his attacks on Hillary Clinton, accusing her of running “a vast criminal enterprise run out of the State Department”.
Trump has recently attempted to enlarge his tiny base of support among blacks – it has been as low as 1 percent – arguing that African Americans have “nothing to lose” by voting for him.
Mr Trump’s calling Mrs Clinton a bigot in a few speeches is likely to bounce off the Democratic nominee if that’s all there is. ‘You’re racist, you’re racist, you’re racist, ‘ they keep saying it, ‘you’re racist.’ It’s a exhausted, disgusting argument, and it’s so totally predictable. “They are failing so badly”.
Prior to Trump’s briefing, leading Democrats questioned whether the celebrity businessman could responsibly handle receiving sensitive information because of some of his comments, including the suggestion that Russian Federation should attempt to hack Clinton’s emails.
“It draws a conclusion and makes a suggestion that my meetings with people like the late, great Elie Wiesel or Melinda Gates or the Nobel Prize victor Muhammad Yunus were somehow due to connections with the foundation instead of their status as highly respected global leaders”, Clinton continued. NBC notes that Trump didn’t announce anything “concrete” about his immigration plans, and sounded a bit “unsure” of his own stance.
On ABC’s Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos blasted, “Back here at home, the race for the White House hotter than ever with Donald Trump sharpening his attacks on Hillary Clinton”. On CNN Thursday, Conway rejected a suggestion that Trump is now adopting a position similar to that of Rubio and other primary rivals.
He also met on Thursday morning with black and Hispanic Republicans at his NY headquarters.
Clinton released a web video on Thursday ahead of her Nevada speech tying Trump to white supremacist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan. He then included a clip of Clinton assailing, “Donald Trump has shown us who he is and we ought to believe him”.
Clinton also hit Trump for his recent hiring of Steve Bannon of conservative news site Breitbart.
The alt-right has been described as a loose movement, largely fueled online, that ranges from fringe conservatism to white nationalism, racism and anti-Semitism.
For example, Trump’s black youth unemployment claim has been rated as “mostly false” by Politifact.
Trump’s campaign called for the Clinton campaign to withdraw the video.
“This type of rhetoric and repulsive advertising is revolting and completely beyond the pale”, Mark Burns, an African-American pastor who supports Trump, said in a statement.
“To Hillary Clinton, and to her donors and advisers, pushing her to spread her smears and her lies about decent people, I have three words”, he said.
“He was not specific about what he regrets, but he lamented with a line that you don’t often hear from politicians: “(S) ometimes I can be too honest”.
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“This is a moment of reckoning for every Republican dismayed at the party of Lincoln has become the party of Trump”, said Clinton. “Favorability tends to be a leading indicator so if Trump is able to string together several weeks of improved public sentiment, he might eke out a better standing in the polls”, he said.
