On Friday, Clinton promised to put in place additional safeguards to prevent conflicts of interest with her foundation should she win the White House. Trump, whose support comes mainly from whites, is unlikely to be victorious unless he can cut into that support.
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“This is what happens when you treat the National Enquirer like Gospel”, Clinton said of Trump’s promotion of various conspiracy theories, including his suggestion that Ted Cruz’s father was involved in the JFK assassination and his assertion that President Barack Obama founded ISIS. “He’s taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America’s two major political parties”.
In his CNN interview, Cooper pressed Trump on whether he felt Clinton was a bigot or was it her policies.
He described some Mexican immigrants as “criminals and rapists” in a 2015 speech launching his candidacy and more recently questioned the impartiality of an American-born judge of Mexican heritage.
Still, Trump’s new language seemed to reveal an awareness that his unyielding stance against immigrants is unlikely to get him to the White House, with Latinos voting in growing numbers in key states. “When Democratic policies fail, they are left with only this one exhausted argument”.
At a MS rally on Wednesday, Trump called Clinton a “bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings”.
Trump has rejected Clinton’s allegations, labeling her a bigot.
Chaffetz has requested Kerry produce a number of documents, communications and a list of all individuals on Clinton’s official calendar during her time as Secretary by September 7. His new tone was visible in a widely-reported speech in which he expressed regret for “sometimes saying the wrong thing”, and made something of a pitch to African-American voters, asking them “what the hell do you have to lose?”
A statement Clinton issued on Monday said those changes will go into effect if Hillary Clinton is elected. “We know who Trump is”. In the first, leading members of the KKK and other white nationalist groups are seen endorsing Donald Trump.
In a letter sent to Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday, Chaffetz wants details about taxpayers resources used to recruit State Department experts for Clinton Foundation donors and wants to know whether federal ethics codes were violated in the process. In that speech, she accused Trump of unleashing a “radical fringe” within the Republican Party, including anti-Semites and white supremacists.
There were signs that Trump risked angering hard-core supporters who helped him win the nomination.
After releasing a hard-hitting ad that tethered Trump to the Ku Klux Klan, Clinton will use a speech in Reno, Nevada to argue he has brought racism to the political mainstream.
Sensing an opportunity, Clinton’s team seized upon the rumor-mongering after the GOP nominee plucked Steve Bannon, the executive chairman of the conservative website Breitbart News, to be his new campaign chairman this month.
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Bannon told the magazine Mother Jones during the Republican National Convention last month that the website was “the platform for the alt-right”, a brand of US political conservatism associated with white nationalism. “They’ve been very disrespectful, as far as I’m concerned, to the African-American population in this country”, Trump said.
