Mrs. Clinton’s opponent, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, called for a special prosecutor to investigate the former secretary and the Clinton Foundation.
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The Democratic presidential nominee says the U.S.is failing to sufficiently invest in public health preparedness, not only for Zika, but health threats from potentially pandemic diseases, climate change and possible bioterrorism.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets supporters outside the Hub Coffee Roasters, in Reno, Nev., Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016.
Yet the Republican presidential candidate also repeated his promise to build a wall along the U.S.
Before the meeting in NY, several protesters unfurled a banner over a railing in the lobby of Trump Tower that read, “Trump = Always Racist”.
Among the emails are some purporting to show that donors to the Foundation lobbied one of her top aides, Huma Abedin, for access to Clinton.
When asked to elaborate on the allegation, he said Clinton’s policies “are bigoted because she knows they’re not going to work”.
With Clinton now leading 47 per cent to Trump’s 41.5 per cent, according to an average of national polls from Real Clear Politics, it is unclear to what extent the new reports can damage her standing. She dubbed the billionaire businessman’s campaign as one that will “make America hate again”.
Clinton has faced fresh questions this week about her use of a private email server while at State, and the interactions she had with donors to her family foundation while she was Secretary of State.
And because she can’t defend her record, Trump argued, “she lies, she smears, she paints decent Americans as racists”.
Regan Lachapelle, a spokeswoman for the health initiative, noted that it was a “separate legal entity from the Clinton Foundation with its own board which will determine its next steps”.
If elected, Clinton says she’ll take additional steps to make sure there are no conflicts of interest between her administration and the global charitable network founded by her husband.
“Trump and his allies have made the potential for corruption posed by the Clinton Foundation the basis for an all-out assault on the Democratic nominee this week to drive up her unfavorable ratings in key swing states”, The Hill reported. In that speech, she accused Trump of unleashing a “radical fringe” within the Republican Party, including anti-Semites and white supremacists.
Campaign manager Robby Mook said Wednesday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe that the story was “outrageous”.
Trump’s campaign declined to comment on Clinton’s campaign speech, but at a MS rally on Wednesday, the Republican nominee called Clinton a “bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings”.
Clinton did not address any of the accusations about her family foundation in her remarks.
He contends that the Democrats have taken minority voters’ support for granted. “I’m proud of what they’ve done”.
In August, Trump told Meet the Press’ Chuck Todd that as president he would deport undocumented immigrants. He added that Trump refused the group’s invitation to speak at its convention.
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Many rank-and-file black voters, meanwhile, dismiss the overtures as another racially charged pitch from a campaign aimed exclusively at whites, from Trump’s emphasis on “law and order” to his withering critiques of President Barack Obama, the nation’s first black chief executive.
