In her phone interview, Clinton was asked if she was certain there are no emails or foundation ties to foreign entities that would impact her presidential prospects.
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Trump himself, his poll numbers sinking, has hastened to assure white voters that they are not bigoted for supporting him, and that he will do more than anybody for African-American and Hispanic voters.
Hillary Clinton, however, is moving to solidify the unsavory association in the electorate’s mind. Charity work is important, but it ought to be left to those who have nothing to sell but their noble cause.
“We have gone above and beyond most of the legal requirements, beyond the standards to voluntarily disclose donors and to reduce sources of funding that raised questions – not that we thought they were necessarily legitimate, but to avoid those questions”, she said.
“It’s the oldest play in the Democratic playbook”, he added.
Spencer may not be wrong, considering this is the first time a major party candidate, Trump, has given a platform to such a fringe, toxic group through his new campaign CEO.
Wednesday night, Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a bigot.
Clinton’s use of a private e-mail system as President Barack Obama’s first-term secretary of state and the Clinton Foundation’s ties to governments and corporations that have business with the USA have come under increasing attack by Republican nominee Donald Trump after the release this week of e-mail exchanges between a former Clinton Foundation executive and top Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
“Donald Trump has pounded that drum for a year and a half, and so I’m starting to see him restore the foundation again”. “They have really been let down by Hillary Clinton and the Democrats”.
The Democratic nominee, who has been working to paint her opponent as fearmongering and racist, also said that Trump’s “disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly unsafe”.
Clinton also warned that Trump has “built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia”, which is “taking hate groups mainstream”.
Trump has rejected Clinton’s allegations, labeling her a bigot.
On Friday, Hillary Clinton fired back with a new ad that says African Americans have “everything” to lose under a Trump presidency.
Indeed, attempting to paint the Democratic Party as unconcerned with minority issues, when the party’s rank-and-file is close to a majority minority and its top elected official, Barack Obama, is black is a very tough lift indeed.
Many black leaders and voters have dismissed Trump’s message as condescending and intended more to reassure undecided white voters that he’s not racist.
Lerer reported from Hartford, Connecticut.
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