Clinton’s speech to the church convention on Thursday was the first of four that Clinton will make in the coming weeks that highlight a more personal side of Clinton, according to Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton’s communications director. Some of the celebrities in attendance included Barbra Streisand, designers Isaac Mizrahi, Donna Karan, Diane von Furstenberg and “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon.
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On Friday night, Clinton said Trump supporters fit into two baskets.
Clinton’s comments amount to startlingly blunt talk for a candidate that is usually measured in her assessment of the Republican nominee.
She called these people a “basket of deplorables”.
“The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it”.
She added, “And unfortunately, there are people like that and he has lifted them up”. “Nearly 15 million people watched the event, and over 26 million tuned in at some point during the hour”.
On Friday night, Clinton said that Trump has “given voice” to “irredeemable” individuals who engage in “offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric”.
Clinton said Trump’s other supporters “are people who feel 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”.
Hillary Clinton criticized Donald Trump’s lavish praise of Russian president Vladimir Putin, calling the GOP nominee’s flattering remarks “reckless and risky”.
Trump’s latest comments come as his campaign has tried to temper his public comments, to somewhat mixed-results.
Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill noted a previous speech in which she accused NY businessman Trump of embracing a brand of US political conservatism associated with white nationalism and nativism known as the “alt right” movement.
But let’s be clear, what’s really “deplorable” is that Donald Trump hired a major advocate for the so-called “alt-right” movement to run his campaign and that David Duke and other white supremacists see him as a champion of their values.
“Obviously not everyone supporting Trump is part of the alt right, but alt right leaders are with Trump”, Merrill said on Twitter.
Get free real-time news alerts from the Tribeca-FiDi Patch. “And their supporters appear to make up half his crowd, when you observe the tone of his events”.
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters”, Trump said at a campaign rally in Iowa last January.
Stephen Bannon CEO of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign is pictured during a round table with the Republican Leadership Initiative at Trump Tower in the Manhattan borough of NY, U.S., August 25, 2016.
“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 the media campaign intensified after Trump gave an interview to former CNN talk show host Larry King, which he said was for King’s podcast, but which was broadcast on the American subsidiary of the state-supported Russian television network RT. Trump tweeted and Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway demanded an apology from the Clinton campaign. “But they are not America”.
