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Donald Trump condemns Hillary Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ label on his backers

Hillary Clinton’s apology today for her remarks on Friday – in which she stated that 50 percent of Trump supporters were a “basket of deplorables” – came quickly after the Republicans pounced on her for it.

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Clinton made the comment Friday night at the LGBT For Hillary Gala, at which Barbra Streisand and Rufus Wainwright performed.

On Friday, Clinton, who has said she is the candidate to unify a divided country, said Trump’s supporters were “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic”.

On Friday, Clinton, 68, was speaking at an LGBT gala fundraiser when she called numerous GOP candidate’s supporters “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it”.

Romney, in comments unearthed from a closed-door fundraiser, cited 47 percent of people “who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it”. “He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric”.

“Hillary Clinton should be ashamed of herself, and this proves beyond a doubt that she is unfit and incapable to serve as President of the United States”, he added. “They’re hard working Americans”.

Shortly after Clinton issued a statement on the matter Saturday, Kaine, a senator from Virginia, said in an interview with The Washington Post that he didn’t see a need for her to apologize. Virtually every single one of those numbers reveals a healthy majority of Trump supporters espousing one form of prejudice or another – all of which means that Hillary Clinton was not wrong in characterizing half of Trump’s faithful as unrepentantly bigoted.

The statement was aimed at shutting down the negative reaction by the Trump campaign and preserving Clinton’s appeal to moderate Republicans and independents.

“It’s deplorable that he’s attacked a federal judge for his ‘Mexican heritage, ‘ bullied a Gold Star family due to their Muslim faith, and promoted the lie that our first black president is not a true American”, she said.

The former secretary of state said she believes the threats facing the country are not limited to ISIS but rather are part of a larger struggle against “a violent ideology – a form of violent jihadism”.

Trump praised the media for pointing out that Bill Clinton said the same words, “make America great again”, while campaigning for president in the early 1990s. “It gave me an insight into the human spirit – and I like to think the spirit of NY and America – that I wish every American could understand”.

Clinton’s comment could help Trump, said Republican strategist Doug Heye.

“So I won’t stop calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign”.

“And the campaign has made clear that they will continue to call out the bigotry and racist values that Donald Trump has championed in this campaign”. Trump tweeted Saturday morning.

A storm erupted in the USA after the after Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called half of her Republican rival’s supporters racist and homophobic.

Clinton, in making her “basket of deplorables” comment, seemed to acknowledge that she was about to oversimplify things.

Clinton’s campaign is happy to have a debate about its belief that Trump’s movement is animated by racism, Democrats close to the campaign said Saturday.

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Trump concluded his brief remarks speaking to Schlafly, saying, “we will never, ever let you down”. “Because we really are stronger together”. Trump tweeted Saturday. “While Hillary said terrible things about my supporters, and while many of her supporters will never vote for me, I still respect them all!”.

Hillary Clinton says she'won't stop calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign