Former president Bill Clinton did not shy away from addressing Donald Trump’s appeals to white supremacists on Wednesday, asserting at a campaign stop that “Make America Great Again” is a racist dog whistle. “Bill Clinton is known as a very strong campaigner, a great voice in politics – but not this cycle”.
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The photographs from 2000 were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act filed by Politico.
On Friday, the Clinton Presidential Library released 22 pictures of the former president hanging out with Trump back in 2000.
Trump claims he was nice to the Clintons because they were big-wigs in NY, and he was a businessman. In fairness, Trump had his hands full with the unidentified lady in the playboy shirt. The Democratic nominee has come under fire for her husband’s decision to sign a 1994 crime bill as president, which critics say led to black Americans being overrepresented in the criminal justice system.
In another, Trump appears to be jokingly pointing at Clinton.
We’ve all seen the photo of the two opposing presidential candidates looking thick as thieves while yucking it up at Trump’s 2005 wedding to Melania Knauss.
President Clinton talks with Trump outside Trump Tower.
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Trump donated about $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation through his own foundation, according to PolitiFact, and made donations, along with his son, Donald Jr., to Clinton while she was a NY senator.
