For years, Smith said, Clinton has been her nemesis and has denied her information about what happened to her son the night of September 11, 2012.
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“As president, l will bring the full weight of the law to bear and making sure those who kill police officers are brought to justice”, Clinton said. Pat Smith tells Republican delegates at their convention: “If Hillary Clinton can’t give us the truth, why should we give her the presidency?”
Asked during a Democratic presidential primary debate in March to respond to Smith’s comments, Clinton said that while she sympathized with Smith and “can’t even imagine the grief that she has for losing her son”, the victim’s mother was “absolutely wrong”. She rejected that justification, Clinton said.
Clinton, who will also speak at union events in Minnesota and Nevada this week, noted that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump declined to speak at the NAACP event.
Asked about a series of national polls out in the past week that show Trump closing the gap with Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee said that the recent surveys reflect only the beginning of the campaign. Today she told PBS and CBS” Charlie Rose she believes Trump is the “most dangerous’ person to ever run for president.
Woods’ widow, who operated a La Jolla dental practice at the time of his death, struck back at Clinton last month when the presidential candidate said it was “time to move on” following the latest investigation into the 2012 ambushes.
Clinton said killing officers is a “terrible crime” because those men and women “represent the rule of law itself”.
“My opponent in this race might have a different view, but there’s nowhere I’d rather be than right here with all of you”, she said about Trump, now in Cleveland at the other end of OH for the Republican National Convention.
Clinton’s time in Cincinnati didn’t stop at the convention.
The former secretary of state was also in OH today, speaking at the NAACP convention that Trump skipped and at an organizing event of her own. These were veterans, cops and the grieving relatives of slain soldiers and police officers.
Clinton also hit Trump on another sensitive issue with black voters: his questioning of President Obama’s citizenship five years ago. “Let’s go win in November”, said Clinton before leaving stage.
Mrs Clinton painted her tycoon opponent as a threat to democracy, lacking a policy platform and whose company refused to rent to African American tenants in the 1970s.
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Clinton’s explanation for that: “The campaign is really just starting”.
