Clinton’s use of a private email 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 email exchanges between a former Clinton Foundation executive and top Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
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Donald Trump took part in some master projection recently by claiming that Hillary Clinton is a bigot.
Trump, who also met Thursday in NY with members of a new Republican Party initiative meant to train young – and largely minority – volunteers, has been working to win over blacks and Latinos in light of his past inflammatory comments and has been claiming that the Democrats have taken minority voters’ support for granted.
Trump pressed on with trying to broaden his appeal to minority voters on Friday, as he met with Hispanic business leaders at his signature hotel in Las Vegas. It’s a tacit acknowledgement that the Clintons have a serious ethics problem with the Foundation; that it could drain Hillary’s political capital should she win; or that it could sink her presidency, which is something NY Magazine’s Jonathan Chait touched upon. “From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia”, Clinton said.
“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.
Donald Trump’s new campaign CEO faced a domestic violence charge in the 1990s following an altercation with his ex-wife.
“To Hillary Clinton and her donors and advisers pushing her to spread smears and her lies about decent people, I have three words, I want you to remember these three words: Shame. On”.
The campaign says the 30-second spot is set to run on cable channels across Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Clinton’s speech yesterday afternoon, delivered at a community college in this general-election battleground state, focused particularly on Trump’s connection to the alt-right.
In her August 24 interview on CNN, Clinton said the AP report excluded almost 2,000 meetings and looked at a small portion of her time as secretary of state.
Several media editorial boards this week noted the foundation’s philanthropic efforts in areas such as global health and HIV/AIDS, but urged the foundation – formally called the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation – to transfer the work to other large US charities.
A spokeswoman said Chelsea Clinton was committed to ensuring that those benefiting from the foundation’s work would continue to receive “that often life-changing help”, and as a result Chelsea Clinton “would remain on the board to help steward the implementation of changes which do that appropriately”.
Clinton is viewed favorably by 57 percent of Jewish voters and unfavorably by 33 percent.
Donald Trump’s waffling on his hard-line immigration program reflects voter ambivalence and confusion on the emotional and complex issue. He said he was still weighing what would become of the 11 million people already in the country illegally. But they also show support for tough measures that could lead to those immigrants’ deportation.
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Notably, even some Trump supporters told the pollsters they oppose his proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States. Trump isn’t the driving force behind all this ugliness; he’s just trying to tap into it for his own benefit.
