Baltimore – Trump Rips Clinton’s “Deplorables” Remark As Divisive

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    Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at the National Guard Association of the United States 138th General Conference and Exhibition in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., September 12, 2016.  REUTERS/Mike SegarBaltimore – Donald Trump criticized Hillary Clinton Monday for her characterization that half of his supporters belonged in “a basket of deplorables,” denouncing the comment as “an explicit attack on the American voter” and suggesting that it makes her unfit for the presidency.

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    No stranger to making his own sweeping negative characterizations of large groups of people, Trump nonetheless deployed the remark as the foundation for a new campaign theme. The message: Clinton is divisive, while Trump is the only candidate representing “all Americans.”

    “You cannot run for president if you have such contempt in your heart for the American voter,” Trump said. “You can’t lead this nation if you have such a low opinion of its citizens.”

    In a speech to the National Guard Association conference in Baltimore, Trump said Clinton’s comments were aimed at those in uniform, whether in the military or in law enforcement.

    “These were the people Hillary Clinton so viciously demonized,” said Trump, who demanded that Clinton issue a full apology. “She divides people into baskets as though they were objects not human beings.”

    Clinton has said she regrets using the term, “half,” to describe the proportion of Trump supporters she considers “deplorables.” But she didn’t back down from describing his campaign as largely built on prejudice and paranoia. The comments, though, combined with Clinton’s health scare Sunday at the 9/11 memorial — she was captured on video struggling to step into a waiting van and her doctor later announced that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia — could reshape the race, in which Clinton holds slim leads in several battleground states.

    Trump and his allies pounced on Clinton’s “deplorables” remark, but remained mostly disciplined and silent on Clinton’s health. A new ad, set to air in the battleground states of Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, is squarely aimed at the voters the Trump campaign says Clinton is vilifying.

    “You know what’s deplorable? Hillary Clinton viciously demonizing hard working people like you,” concludes the ad.

    Clinton, who has said she is the candidate to unify a divided country, made the “deplorables” comment at a fundraiser Friday night in New York. She has made similar comments recently, including on an Israeli television station.

    “To just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it,” she said, before stressing that other Trump supporters are frustrated and need sympathy.

    Trump and his aides have predicted that Clinton’s statement would be more damaging than the gaffe to which it has been frequently compared, when Mitt Romney four years ago suggested that “47 percent” of voters wouldn’t back him because they were dependent on government.

    “When I saw this in its full form and I saw the anger with which she said it,” Trump told the Fox News Channel early Monday, “I think it’s the single biggest mistake of the political season.”

    But Trump has also attacked Americans who don’t intend to vote for him.

    When he trailed Dr. Ben Carson in the polls last December in Iowa, he mocked his opponent’s claim that he had tried to stab a family member only to fail after the blade hit a belt buckle.

    “How stupid are the people of Iowa?” he asked. “How stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap?”

    He also criticized voters in Iowa by retweeting a supporter’s jab that the Midwestern state’s number one commodity export — Monsanto’s genetically engineered corn – “creates issues in the brain.” Trump has also suggested that those who vote for Clinton would try to “rig” the election away from his supporters and, in a 2015 interview with Sean Hannity, made comments that appeared to echo Romney’s damaging remarks.

    “The problem we have right now, we have a society that sits back and says, ‘We don’t have to do anything.’ And eventually, the 50 percent cannot carry, and it’s unfair to ’em, but cannot carry the other 50 percent.”

    Trump, meanwhile, set aside his recent digs at Clinton’s health and told Fox that he hopes “she gets well and gets back on the trail and we’ll be seeing her at the debate.” In recent weeks, Trump has suggested that Clinton lacked “the stamina” to president and criticized her campaign schedule.


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    7 years ago

    Yes thank you. And just an added point. Hilary and the media from day one have been engaged in the same demagoguery. conduct in which she and her coherts criticize Trump for. We keep on hearing about Trump supporters being the “uneducated white red necks”. Of course they argue , well its only a study. The data says so we are not discriminating. Yeah but who decided to divide the data in such derogatory terms and levels. What’s wrong with saying Trump tends t draw support from blue collar workers or more rural communties? Why the “uneducated” . Its clearly amde to emphasize that he “uneducated” are inferior because they are dumb. As a side note, notice how they never would say the uneducated black or Latino community is Hilary supporters.
    One more point lest you say well Trump also said I love the uneducated. Yeah but he did not mean I love them because they are dumb. He meant I love them because they contribute so much if not more to society. And neither did he coin that word rather he used it as a response to the hilary demagoguery who keeps on repeating those terms.

    #HypocriteHilary.

    RebelSheep
    RebelSheep
    7 years ago

    It’s true. I met one in the Poconos at a go-karting place with too many signs.

    7 years ago

    Hillary has her nose down at blue collar workers. I know of a specific instance where two Verizon telephone workers came to her home to do some telephone repairs. Whereas Bill Clinton was very folksy and kind to them, Hillary was the complete opposite. She used some very unladylike language to them, and was very nasty “i.e. (where the blank have you been”, etc.). This time, the mainstream press, is not giving her a pass on her reprehensible statement, which was “a basket of deplorables”.

    yaakov doe
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    yaakov doe
    7 years ago

    She was referring to David Duke and the American Nazi Party supporters of Trump. The rabid Anti-Semitism on Twitter by Trump supporters is troubling to me. He has attracted an extreme element.

    7 years ago

    I wish that Trump would stop spending his time speaking to us about Hillary’s incompetence. She herself does quite well at that. She has made a fool of herself with the incessant lying. Her email mess, the Benghazi scandal, the string of lies about Trump, her deteriorating health with the secrecy about the truth, her role in undermining so many aspects of foreign affairs, etc. are self destructive enough. Trump cannot destroy Hillary as much as she can destroy herself. Efficiency would suggest that she should handle that, and Trump should concentrate on the changes in policy he will implement, and how he will accomplish this.