Hillary Clinton announced on Saturday that she “regrets” calling “half” of Donald Trump’s supporters a “basket of deplorables.”
“Last night I was ‘grossly generalistic,’ and that’s never a good idea. I regret saying ‘half’ — that was wrong,” Clinton claimed in a statement and said rather than attacking voters, she would just bash Trump.
Her statement — in which she never actually apologized — didn’t clarify what amount of Trump’s supporters she thinks really constitute the “basket of deplorables.”
But the comment wasn’t the first time Clinton was forced to announce that she regretted it after a public backlash.
Anytime Hillary has received even the slightest backlash from her base or donors, she’s buckled and announced her “regret.”
Here’s a list of 9 other times Clinton has announced her regret:
- Back in 2008, the Democratic nominee recounted that she landed in Bosnia under sniper fire and discussed how dangerous the trip was. Of course this all turned out to be a lie, she was in fact greeted by adoring children and flowers. She announced days later that she “misspoke.”
- During the 2016 campaign she also said that she “misspoke” about her plan to put coal companies out of business after she received massive pushback in swing states like Virginia and Pennsylvania.
- Another time she announced her regret without actually saying the word was after the death of Nancy Reagan. Clinton praised the Reagan’s for starting a national conversation about AIDS. That wasn’t exactly the case and under the pressure from LGBT groups she immediately said that she made “a mistake.”
- During the 2008 campaign she announced that she “regretted” her vote for the 2001 Bankruptcy Bill after then Sen. Obama used it against her in the Democratic primary. Clinton went so far as to say she voted for it but didn’t want it to pass.
- Probably the most famous vote that Hillary ever announced that she regretted was her vote for the Iraq War. It was arguably the biggest reason that she lost the Democratic primary in 2008 but it wasn’t until 2016 that she came clean and said it was “a mistake.”
- During the most recent Democratic primary, Clinton also saw was forced to say another bill she advocated for was a mistake. After being attacked by #BlackLivesMatter activists and Bernie Sanders, Hillary announced her regret over the the famous 1994 crime bill.
- #BlackLivesMatter caused Clinton to recount several regrets she had during her husband’s presidency. After a protestor stormed into a fundraiser with a quote of Clinton calling young black men “super predators,” she announced that the comment was wrong and she “regrets” it.
- Clinton’s foreign policy regrets don’t end there, she also said that she “regrets” the terrorist attacks at the U.S. embassy in Benghazi.
- Comedy hasn’t been Clinton’s forte and when she tried to make a joke about Mahatma Gandhi use to run a gas station in St. Louis, she received waves of backlash against social justice warriors. She came out in a statement and said, “I truly regret if a lame attempt at humor suggested otherwise.”
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