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Clinton unloads on Trump: ‘Hateful,’ ‘inflammatory,’ ‘bigotry’
Trump has been under fire since Monday for making eyebrow-raising remarks about the former Secretary of State, including that he thought that her use of a bathroom break during the most recent Democratic debate was “disgusting” and that she “got [expletive]” during the 2008 election, when she lost to Barack Obama.
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This is a shift from what Clinton said at the Democratic debate last Saturday when she said Trump was “becoming ISIS’ best recruiter”.
The common usage of the term “schlong” is as a slang reference to a penis.
“I really deplore the tone of his campaign, and the inflammatory rhetoric that he is using to divide people, and his going after groups of people with hateful, incendiary rhetoric”, Clinton said.
I used to think we couldn’t get any less presidential than George W Bush. “I know. I have to admit it. I guess I’m a man. Men are allowed to go to the bathroom, but women?”
DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz hit back, saying that “the Sanders campaign doesn’t have anything other than bluster at the moment that they can put out there”. On Twitter Tuesday, Trump denied the word was vulgar and said it simply means “beaten badly”. In a tweet Tuesday night, Trump called the media “dishonest” for its characterization of his remarks and said that the term he used was “not vulgar”.
The response was the first from the campaign since Trump used the vulgarity Monday night during a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Ted Cruz, trailing far behind Trump with less than half the support Trump received in the survey, emerged for the first time as an unequivocal second choice for voters, leading by 8 percentage points over the third and fourth places.
What is most striking about the arc of Trump’s campaign in 2015 is that he keeps pushing the envelope. He said, “This will enhance her victimology status”. “That’s why it’s important to stand up to bullies wherever we are, and why we shouldn’t let anybody bully his way into the presidency, because that is not who we are as Americans”. He also said Clinton was “crooked” and “not a president”.
Trump will surely continue to say controversial things – perhaps deliberately – and it will be the media’s job to report them, explain them and place them in the context of what he’s said before.
So, for now, bickering about Trump’s sexist language is good for him, it’s good for Clinton, and it’s even good for journalists who get to examine the origins of a fun Yiddish word during the usually tiresome lead-up to Christmas.
At the beginning of this year, I was pulled aside at the airport and thoroughly frisked and searched (and I don’t want to compare my experience to people who have gone through much worse, but basically fondled and groped) at the Portland International Airport after being selected for extra scrutiny.
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“If we’re all supposed to answer hypothetical questions, ‘knowing what we now know what would you have done, ‘ I would not have engaged”.