Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has had enough of opponent Hillary Clinton’s accusations of racism.
“Decent Americans, who support this campaign, your campaign, are being racists, which we’re not,” Trump told a packed crowd rallying at Manchester, New Hampshire’s Radisson Hotel Thursday. “It’s the oldest play in the Democratic playbook.
“When Democratic policies fail, they are left with only this one tired argument: you’re racist, you’re racist, you’re racist. They keep saying it: you’re racist. It’s a tired, disgusting argument and it’s so totally predictable,” he said.
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Trump contends the Clinton campaign is grasping at straws to smear his campaign and supporters.
“They’re failing so badly,” he said. “It’s the last refuge of the discredited democrat politician.”
Trump’s comments, which were posted to YouTube, are in response to Clinton’s hate-filled tirade in Reno, Nevada Wednesday against “racist liar” Trump and the “radical fringe” of the Republican Party that supports him.
“Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters. It’s a disturbing preview of what kind of president he would be,” Clinton said, before going on to list how allegedly racist groups and people supporting The Donald.
“When asked in a nationally televised interview whether he would disavow the support of David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Trump wouldn’t do it,” Clinton claimed. “And only later … under mounting pressure, did he backtrack.”
The comments, of course, are an ironic twist in racially charged politics, mostly because Clinton herself has faced accusations of ties to racists, which she has refused to address publicly.
The American Mirror pointed out that both former president Bill Clinton and his wife have been featured on campaign buttons emblazoned with allegedly racist symbolism.
During the 1992 presidential campaign, campaign pins circulated in southern states featured Bill Clinton and vice presidential running mate Al Gore as the “Sons of the New South” with their likeness as confederate soldiers over a Confederate flag backdrop. Another pin distributed during that campaign featured a Confederate flag and “Clinton-Gore 1992.”
Then, during the 2008 presidential election, Hillary was also featured on campaign pins bearing the Confederate flag, in both Arkansas and Alabama.
“Hillary Clinton’s attempt to delete the single worst week of her political career isn’t going to work,” Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller told the Reno Gazette-Journal of Clinton’s speech in Nevada. “Her admission that there’s a lot of smoke but no fire is a complete lie, and the American public’s response will be to do exactly as her campaign suggests: don’t vote for her.”
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