Surely no right-thinking American disagrees that racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia and Islamophobia are, indeed, deplorable.
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Hillary Clinton grasped at straws while speaking at an LGBT event in Manhattan on Friday night, and wove them into clumsy metaphor that hurt the feelings of people who already hate her. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people now how 11 million.
“He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric”, Clinton said.
After her comments were widely condemned, especially by Republicans and Trump supporters, she released a statement on Saturday in part saying she regrets the comments.
But the fact that she condemned half of Trump’s supporters is what anxious Clinton’s senior aides, who said Saturday they couldn’t have a conversation around racism before Clinton backed away from that part of the comment.
Of course, while Clinton is taking heat for her comment, Trump’s brand is controversy.
Hillary Clinton addressing gay rights supporters in NY. But the Democratic nominee did not back down from the criticism that white supremacists have flocked to Trump, and added that the Republican presidential nominee hired Steve Bannon to head his campaign.
Jason Miller, senior communications adviser to the Republican nominee, said Mrs Clinton’s “truly deplorable” remarks “revealed just how little she thinks of the hard-working men and women of America”.
Trump tweeted that Clinton’s words would harm her standing in the election, and said in a statement that if he is elected president he would represent all Americans.
“There are what I call the deplorables”, said Clinton in the interview with Channel 2’s Yonit Levy, which was broadcasted last Thursday. Overall, Hillary Clinton leads Trump by 5 percentage points with likely voters – a small drop from her 8-point lead just after the Democratic convention, but a formidable gap nonetheless given that the convention bounces have now faded.
In a speech at the Values Voters Summit in Washington, Mike Pence said Clinton’s comments should be denounced in the strongest possible terms.
The remark drew laughs from her audience, and she later said that other Trump supporters are “people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change”.
Also on Friday night, he told supporters in Pensacola, Florida, that Clinton could shoot someone and not be prosecuted.
In a November debate against Democratic primary rival Bernie Sanders, Clinton invoked the 9/11 attacks and her tenure as a NY senator, from 2001 to 2009, to fend off charges from the Vermont senator that she was too close to Wall Street. How many other times has she made similar remarks when the press hasn’t been allowed in?
And while Clinton did say she regretted the comment, she did not apologize to people she may have offended.
Clinton has been under continued scrutiny over her use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state.
“How can she be President of our country when she has such contempt and disdain for so many great Americans?” a Trump statement asked.
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But she also doubled down on previous comments she has made about the Republican nominee’s campaign apparatus and its embrace of “alt-right” supporters. Clinton stressed the rest of Trump’s supporters feel let down by the government and economy.
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The donor said if Trump wins, the USA would “fall backward and become more isolated from the global community”.
