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US PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE Hillary Clinton has called Donald Trump’s supporters a “basket of deplorables”.
Speaking at an event in New York, she said they were “racist, sexist, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it”, the BBC reported.
Clinton’s comments about the supporters of the divisive New York property developer were made at an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) fundraiser in New York.
“To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the ‘basket of deplorables’,” she said.
Unfortunately there are people like that, and he has lifted them up.
Clinton, 68, added that those people are “irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America”.
But she said the other half of his supporters were individuals who felt let down by the economy and government and were desperate for change.
They don’t buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. Those are people we have to understand and empathise with as well.
Trump’s campaign said Clinton had insulted “millions of Americans”, with her comments.
Clinton’s press spokesman Nick Merrill defended her comments, however.
Tax returns
Meanwhile, Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence has published his tax returns, putting pressure on his billionaire boss to do the same.
The Trump campaign said that the candidate “plans to release his tax returns upon completion of a routine audit.”
The Clinton campaign quickly fired back. In a statement, it said:
Why won’t Trump release his tax returns and what is he hiding?
Analysts say Trump’s tax returns will show he is worth less than he claims, that he has paid no income tax in years, and that he is deeply in debt.
Christian heritage
Meanwhile, Trump has also said he would order an attack on Iranian boats if they approached US Navy ships – referring to a number of encounters between US and Iranian naval vessels in the Persian Gulf.
He has also urged the US religious right to vote en masse on election day to defeat Clinton, his White House rival.
Both candidates are seeking to appear presidential and fire up their supporters as the 8 November election day approaches.
Trump was the star at a Washington gathering of grassroots activists, conservative stalwart lawmakers, and leaders in the anti-abortion and religious freedom movements.
He sought to lock up a commitment from the key evangelical and social conservative voting bloc, four years after millions of them stayed home instead of supporting Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
“In a Trump administration, our Christian heritage will be cherished, protected, defended like you’ve never seen before,” Trump said to a rousing ovation.
You have to get out and vote on 8 November. You didn’t vote four years ago. You didn’t vote.
Trump’s attendance at the Values Voter Summit highlights how conservatives want social issues like abortion discussed in the presidential campaign.
Trump is under pressure to convince these activists of his own conservative values, and has largely steered clear of the sensitive issue of abortion, to court moderates.
‘Birther’ no more?
In that vein, his campaign has taken steps to distance the Republican nominee from his years-long propagation of the “birther” conspiracy theory that Obama was not born in the United States.
“He believes President Obama was born here… He was born in Hawaii,” Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CNN.
Her comments came a day after Trump surrogate and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani made similar statements.
Trump himself has so far refused to clearly acknowledge the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency.
The controversial property developer was the most prominent early proponent of a theory that Obama, the nation’s first black president, was not born in the United States and therefore, under the US Constitution, ineligible to be commander in chief.
Trump again embraced the long-debunked “birther movement” in early 2011, eager to push the theory as a way to connect with white conservatives and catapult himself to prominence.
Paying respects on 9/11
Clinton, meanwhile, held a working session on terrorism and national security with a group of experts that included ousted former CIA director David Petraeus, former commander of US forces in Afghanistan John Allen and former National Counterterrorism Center Director Matt Olsen.
After the meeting, she said: “I asked them to join me for a candid conversation about some of the most challenging issues facing our country because I believe that America’s national security must be the top priority for our next president.
I support more special forces, enablers and trainers, as needed, intelligence gathering and reconnaissance.
The meeting came two days before the country marks the 15th anniversary of the 11 September terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.
Clinton, who at the time was a US senator representing New York, will attend the ceremony Sunday at Ground Zero “to pay her respects,” a campaign aide said.
- With reporting from AFP.
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Big mistake Hilary.
That’s what the remain campaign did in the UK and look how it ended. You can’t tell people they’re dumb to vote a certain way, because all that ensures is that they definitely will vote that way.
Angela Merkel and her party just learned the exact same lesson in German state elections.
Racists offended that they’re being called racist?
Snowflake generation right there!
It must be terrible to be an illiberal liberal lefty. They see the world through a hate, bigotry and white self loathing lens.
Clever Jake you’re obviously very PC brah.
I wish. That imagery could be considered misogynistic by PC types like yourself.
sometimes you have to call a spade a spade
Dumb jake, what sweet humane society have the Clintons ever brought to the world? Ask the americans who have died for no reason under either Bill or Hillary.
I’ll just put out a couple of things the Clinton’s have brought to the world
She co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families.
Clinton Foundation
I’m sure in their long political careers,you will find the very bad & also the very good
I’ll just leave a YUGE space for what kind of humane society that Trump has ever brought to the world…
Saddam Hussein also brought great programs to the world. Under his regime, women had normal rights we all take for granted here, made sure they were well respected and never discriminated when it came to jobs. Hillary tried to destroy the women too who had been coerced by her husband. They spent billions going after Osama….
As for your Clinton foundation, set up in such a way as ‘charities performed in house’, so that no one really knows where the money is spent.
Assange: Next Release Of 100,000 Clinton Docs Will Finish Hillary
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said that his next release of up to 100,000 DNC emails will see the end of Hillary Clinton’s political career.
According to an interview with Sean Hannity, the WikiLeaks founder says that he intends to release up to 100,000 unseen Democratic National Committee emails next week.
http://yournewswire.com/assange-next-release-of-100000-clinton-docs-will-finish-hillary/
So much popcorn time coming, fun to be had by all, pull up a chair.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Assange is doing a whole lot of talking without any action.
Timing is everything
Not to mention, he has never in my knowledge, said something he has not done.
Anyone see her coughing fit where she spat up two green globes of phlegm into her glass of water the other day? The woman is not well.
Maybe she just has a cough.
I saw that Chris and even more troubling is the potential brain damage from her concussion a few years ago as she seems to be suffering severe memory loss according to the FBI report.
Clinton should look in the mirror now and again… http://freebeacon.com/politics/the-hillary-tapes/
I thought wikileaks was supposed to be about freedom of information exclusively?
Delaying the release of documents on purpose to sabotage an election campaign is a political stunt, not befitting of an organisation that should be dedicated to transparency.
I want to see what they have now, not when they feel the time is right to do the most damage. This is pure hypocrisy on their part, sorry, and that’s coming from someone who values their work.
It is obvious that she is not well Petr, she had to have a stool to lean on until the social media picked it up, now the stool has disappeared.
She has to helped up and down steps, even two or three. She goes into a trance like a deer caught in the headlights and her minder has disappeared when his activities and syringe at the ready were highlighted on social media.
She has also had several fits in public.
Pity Assange didn’t release them while Bernie was still in the running. All releasing them now will do is hand the Presidency to Trump.
Joe — That is hilarious!!!
But true Petr.
Somebody get Paranoid Jake a tinfoil hat.
Assange hasnt been getting any action holed up in that embassy
Dlya duyet moy kryshku Dzheyk, ozhidayut vizit moikh druzey .
Pretty amazing to see a presidential Candidate disparage such a vast swath of the electorate she hopes to win over. Mitt Romney made nearly identical comments about “47%” of the population and it proved to be fatal for him, this could have a similar impact on her chances. So much for her promises of unity and being “stronger together”.
I doubt it somehow. The people to whom she is referring probably can’t even sell “Deplorable” let alone understand what it means.
Hillary Clinton doesn’t understand what “confidential” means.
@Éamonn – I’m no Trump fan but saying his supporters can’t ‘sell deplorable’ when you’re obviously trying to say ‘spell’ is pretty beautiful.
Éamonn, sell “Deplorables”? Oh, you meant, spell. How terribly ironic.
Hillary ‘cough’ could well win it
Patrick you’re an idiot, those people would never vote for Hilary
And still no reference in MSM to Hilary’s seizures. Fit for presidency? She’s over 70, already her sparse campaign schedule is indicating that she’s not up to the task.
Don’t get me wrong, Drumpf is a fool, the absolutely wrong choice as Republican nominee. The next four years will be a disaster for the US regardless of the outcome.
@Patrick Watson
Most likely because Hillary was sad,mad,disappointed on the vast lack of turnouts for her address on Thurs.in Kansas City to the Nat.Bab. Convention. She was probably haunted by the phrase ”Suppose Hillary gave an address and nobody came to hear” ringing through her mind for the NY event .
See Hillary’s desperation antics below in Kansas City venue.
BY: Cameron Cawthorne
September 9, 2016 3:21 pm
Hillary Clinton’s keynote address at the National Baptist Convention in Kansas City, Missouri on Thursday evening failed to draw a crowd of the size that organizers and Clinton’s campaign expected, so they partitioned the room to hide thousands of empty seats.
A reporter for NBC’s Kansas City affiliate, Brian Abel, tweeted that event organizers shut off the lights in a large portion of the unoccupied room and then partitioned it off from where attendees were sitting.—-”
http://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-draws-abysmal-crowd-size-national-baptist-convention/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=52b7d21779-WFB_Weekend_Beacon_09_10_169_9_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-52b7d21779-45963853
Patrick J, she is running a low energy campaign, hasn’t got the stamina for the race . Trump has seized the momentum and is running with it.
@Patrick Watson
Well said. Succinct. And no time to recharge her fading batteries so it’s only a matter of time before extreme burnout blows her White House ambitions.
Or spell ‘spell’
Hopefully her disdain for the electorate will damage her prospects. I don’t know how anyone could vote for Clinton, so crooked she couldn’t lie straight in the bed.
Gary Johnson should be elected but unfortunately that’s not going to happen.
He who said, ‘What is Aleppo?’ PMSL
Maybe that’s a good thing. A US president that is concerned about the US and not about projecting hard power overseas Petr. Wouldn’t suit the bleeding heart liberals though.
‘What is Confidential?’ – Hillary Clinton
Yes, pure unbridled ignorance of geopolitics (and basic geography) is a GOOD quality for a president apparently.
Heaven forbid you had someone in the hotseat who had the vaguest idea of what they were going to do.
Joe — The US is an imperialist expansionist country. I don’t want it to be that way but elite geopolitical and corporate imperatives drive policy. It will not change and Johnson will never be president.
On a broader note, ignorance is never a good thing.
Yeah Malachi, and the US has had eight years of the cleverest, suave and articulate, useless filling for a good suit as a president.
I didn’t say he would be president, I said, unfortunately he won’t be.
Because the US has most often been, imperialist and expansionist doesn’t mean it has to be. The point is to change it.
“On a broader note, ignorance is never a good thing”
And Obama has been such a success. Ignorance can be cured by learning, arrogance is a much tougher nut.
So your answer to 8 years of ignorance is… even more ignorance?
Class.
Did I say Obama was ignorant? Arrogant, yes, but thinks he is too clever for his own good.
“And Obama has been such a success.” Agreed
He stopped the largest recession since the 30′s……
Cannot take that away from him…
That is hilarious Francis, do you do evening acts too.
didnt jesus have a bleeding heart eh?
Jesus, so we are lead to believe. He also wore sandal and a dress and probably would have read the Guardian.
Patrick – why,are you retiring?
Even a third grader knows the US economy is screwed, Francis.
Operational definition of the word screwed in the context of US economy..
Define exactly what you are measuring
Gdp?
Unemployment stats?
Equity or income?
Consumer confidence?
GNP?
Operational definition of third grader
What an utterly disgusting old woman
How did the Clintons get started on the road to mega-riches. Was it stock-market fraud. The experts went through her transactionS in minute detail and arrive at a presumption of guilt of 98/100 score. See below link for detailed analysis. Very interesting reading for the week end
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—”On October 11, 1978, the future First Lady, a neophyte investor with an annual income of $25,000, opened a commodity-futures account with a deposit of $1,000. Her first trade was the short sale of ten live-cattle contracts at a price of 57.55 cents a pound: a commitment to deliver in December of that year 400,000 pounds of cattle with a market value of $230,200. One day later, she bought the contracts back at a price of 56.10 cents, just 0.15 cent above the low of the day, pocketing $5,300 for a return of 530 per cent.
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After extensive research, we have satisfied ourselves that Mrs. Clinton was neither naive nor lucky nor particularly talented as a trader. Even individuals who have never visited a futures exchange or traded one futures contract will, upon examination of the evidence, be convinced that Mrs. Clinton’s representation of the events 15 years later is highly implausible.
————–— Caroline Baum is a financial columnist with Dow Jones Telerate. Victor Niederhoffer is a commodities speculator. The authors wish to thank Jay McKeage and Jon Normile for their assistance. This article originally appeared in the February 20, 1995, issue of National Review.————–”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436066/hillary-clintons-cattle-futures-windfall
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436066/hillary-clintons-cattle-futures-windfall
bla bla bla. change the record m8
Well Sean O Rourke had 3 American political experts discussing Trump and the best they could say was his supporters were irrational and insane not open to reason
What on earth will RTE and The BBC do if Trump wins
That’s because they are self-centered, shallow, lack empathy, and in general, part of the reason his support grows.
@John003
They should have asked who pays their way the most.That would give the real answer.People who hold down a job are mentaly more stable than the Anti Trumpeteers who are most likely chizelers as the seem ready to forgive their own kind in Clinton.
Patrick – National Review – LOL. A site for kooks, tin- foil hats, and paranoid schizophrenics like yourself. All this talk about Hillary’s e-mails but it’s perfectly fine for Cheney to out Valerie Plame as a CIA operative for political payback.
@Phillip Gerard
Why don’t you get back to a teen site where creeps like you might get away with name-calling bullying tactics that’s all your are good for..
A Trump voter calling someone a bully. That’s rich. Not surprised given that you support a draft dodger who denigrated John McCain’s Vietnam service. Shame on you and the others who are in the”basket of deplorables”.
@Philip Gerard
Mentioning a traitor like McCain tells all about your level of integrity.Go away.
—”’Veterans voice their disgust for John “Songbird” McCain who spilled his guts to get out of being tortured. There is evidence that McCain received ‘special’ medical treatment from a Soviet physician and other ‘considerations’ to avoid being tortured just so he could come home. —”
http://truthuncensored.net/john-mccain-exposed-by-vietnam-vets-and-pows-as-a-liar-and-a-fraud-video/
Yah, sure. How does you type with a straight jacket on??
Truth uncensored… Lol
Her comments are aimed at people who wouldn’t vote for her in a month of Sunday’s if she was running against David Duke, let alone Frumpy. The debates will finish frumpy off anyway.
Doubtful, she is useless on her feet.
And unless you had not noticed his popularity is increasing, if that is possible, for two of the most unpopular candidates ever.
Part of me loves it, though.
They truly are a pair of disgusting candidates aren’t they..
You seem keen on defending Hilary’s obvious ill health though…
Truth hurts, doesn’t it?? Especially when you’re getting the backing of the Klan. But it would be better if she put it this way – not all Trump voters are ignorant, sexist, racist, bigots, but all ignorant, sexist, racist, bigots are voting for Trump.
That’s rich. A Trumpite calling someone else a bully. So you are fine with people outing CIA agents then? Not surprising given you support a draft dodger who denigrated John McCain.
Poor Hillary. The woman who was supposed to be president. She was supposed to be elected president in 2008 but Barrack Obama ruined everything. His campaign was meant to be a practice run for him but he ended up catching the public’s imagination and becaming wildly successful. Hillary then had to wait for 2016.
Everything was set up so she would win. The uninspiring Jeb Bush was supposed to win the republican nomination.
The idea was she would be a much more forceful nominee than him. (That wouldn’t be hard) She would walk into the position of US president.
But Donald Trump ruined everything. He completely annihilated Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz, to become the Republican nominee. And now he is annihilating Hillary Clinton.
And she and her team are in a state of panic.
Let’s face it, everyone knows that in two months time Donald Trump will be elected President of the United States.
And Hillary Clinton will have a mental breakdown.
Or at least start drinking more than she usually does.
Where did you get that Crystal Ball from? “Everyone knows Trump will win”. Am I the only one without one. I don’t think he’s going to win, I’d certainly hate to see a racist bigot bully win. What gives that bigot the right to say the US should have taken all of Iraqs oil before it withdrew?
So you would prefer a murdering evil bitch?
I’d never vote for Trump. If Hillary’s health is as bad as what Trump says it is then Tim Kaine will still make a fine President compared to that clown Trump. I’ve voted Republican in the past 4 years of Hillary, then comes Paul Ryan as the next Republican President
Both Hilary and Obama are empty shells, they don’t believe in anything. What the appeal of Trump is that he, up until recently, spoke from his gut. Whether yo agree with him or not, that has a great resonance.
‘ Whether you’
So she attacks people who are exercising their rights….. This wretched evil woman…. If they are stupid enough to vote in this demonic tramp, they deserve what they get, but the rest of the world does not….
The alternative is a clown that appeals to the darkest corners of the American psyche. A candidate that gets the endorsement of The KKK. A candidate that thinks ha can build a wall and deport 11 million men, women and children, A candidate that wants to impose a blanket travel ban on a whole race of people. I don’t particularly like Clinton, but I’ll hold my nose and vote so he doesn’t win.
Think about it. Obama beat down Hillary, she then rode his term to stay in the limelight. When thinking of KKK, I think of Clintons. Trump thinks about money, not colour.
As Ms. Clinton also mentioned in her speech, half of the people who support Trump have genuine grievances. It is just that they are falling for the answers that a very dangerous demagogue is offering them. Rather like the Germans, who also had very real grievances and had been badly treated, blindly accepted Hitler’s argument that everything was the Jews’ fault.
The others are undeniably racists, xenophobes, laboratory-grade homophobes, religious fundamentalists and in general misguided and nasty fools who think their own problems will be solved and their own inadequacy negated if they hate some group or groups intensely enough.
What might help in the USA would be massive education and retraining programmes to help those who have failed to adjust to a changing global economy make a better future for themselves, and a transfer of wealth back from the <1% to the middle classes, who would actually create more wealth if they are given a chance.
That is a big ask in a large segment of the population where many people wilfully remain ignorant and live in a bubble of delusion.
The question we must ask ourselves here in Ireland, where we can generally look objectively at things, is why so many Irish people are eejits enough to think a narcissistic demagogue and hatemonger like Trump, with the orangutan hair and small hands, could possibly offer answers on anything to anyone.
“What might help in the USA would be massive education and retraining programmes to help those who have failed to adjust to a changing global economy make a better future for themselves, ”
That sound very much soviet style indoctrination. Don’t let people think, tell them how to think.
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