The Democrat nominee contrasted Trump’s divisiveness with her vision of the U.S. that is stronger together.
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On Wednesday, Trump called once again for a special prosecutor to investigate foundation donors getting special access to Clinton while she was secretary of state.
Before her interview, Clinton had largely ignored Trump’s criticism of the foundation, with campaign officials figuring her late-summer advantage gives her few incentives to personally push back against the email criticism or allegations of pay-for-play. “She lies, she smears, she paints decent Americans as racists”, he said.
“Now, before he tweets about how he’s really one who’ll put “America First” in trade, let’s remember where Trump makes many of his own products Because it’s sure not America”, Clinton said in a speech in Warren, Michigan earlier this month. It is not clear whether she will continue raising moneyfor the foundation, which has pledged to forgo gifts from foreign or corporate entities to avoid potential conflicts of interest during a Hillary Clinton administration.
“Hillary Clinton and her campaign went to a disgusting new low today as they released a video tying the Trump campaign with horrific racial images”, said Pastor Mark Burns, calling the ad “repulsive” and “revolting”.
The news agency said in a detailed report on Tuesday that 85 of the 154 private sector people who met Clinton donated $156 million to the family charity, and 20 of them paid more than $1 million a piece.
“Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia”, she said. But the questions about emails and the foundation keep piling up, and she is certain to be challenged at the first debate with Trump on September 26.
Trump said that Clinton is “going to accuse decent Americans who support this campaign, your campaign, of being racist, which we’re not”.
“It is only now because she is running for president that the work of the Clinton Foundation is being tarred”, Fallon said.
Clinton used unusually tough language during her speech in Reno, Nevada, detailing a history of what she said were Trump’s discriminatory actions, including the fact that he had been sued as a young developer for failing to rent to black and Latino tenants.
Clinton also reminded the crowd that Trump has frequently engaged some of the alt-right’s favorite conspiracy theories, saying he “traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far dark reaches of the internet”.
She added, “I believe the public will be and is considering my full record and experience as they consider their choice for president”.
Clinton said the Bannon hire has led to a “de facto merger” between Breitbart and the Trump campaign represents a “landmark achievement” for a “fringe element that has effectively taken over the Republican Party”.
Instead, she offered a strident denouncement of Trump’s campaign and the so-called alt-right movement, which is often associated with efforts on the far right to preserve “white identity”, oppose multiculturalism and defend “Western values”. She has contrasted Trump with former Republican presidential candidates John McCain and Bob Dole, and former President George W. Bush, praising their decisive steps to counter racism and anti-Muslim sentiment.
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“We’ve never even discussed it internally”, she said on CBS.
