Amid accusations that Hillary Clinton was asked a planted question Tuesday by a 9-year-old boy about pay equity, the Clinton campaign has released a web ad in which a girl asks the candidate what she’s going to do about bullying.
Is the ad a staged moment, too?
Time reports 10-year-old Hannah Tandy asked, “What are you going to do about all this bullying?” at a December 22 forum in Keota, Iowa.
“Can you tell me a little bit more about why that’s on your mind?” Clinton responded to Tandy in the ad.
“I have asthma and occasionally I’ve heard people talking behind my back about not wanting to be near me because I have asthma,” the girl said. “I mean, people, it’s not contagious!”
The moment provided Clinton an opportunity to grab the girl’s hand and move in for a one-arm hug while the audience applauded.
“That was really brave,” Clinton saids in the video. “I can’t even imagine what it’s like to be, you know, a young person in today’s world where that’s coming at you all the time.
“So I do think we all have to speak up and speak out about trying to create an atmosphere where bullying is not appropriate, where it’s not allowed,” Clinton said.
And while answering the question, she pivoted to seemingly attack Donald Trump in her answer.
“That’s why it’s important to stand up to bullies wherever they are, and we shouldn’t let anybody bully his way into the presidency because that is not who we are as Americans.”
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