Thread: Hillary Clinton Says She ‘Regrets’ Calling Millions of Americans ‘Basket of Deplorabl

Hillary Clinton Says She ‘Regrets’ Calling Millions of Americans ‘Basket of Deplorables’



10 Sep 2016

Hillary Clinton issued a statement that she “regrets” saying half of Donald Trump supporters are “deplorable” — but she stopped short of apologizing for her comment.

“Last night I was ‘grossly generalistic,’ and that’s never a good idea. I regret saying ‘half’ — that was wrong,” Clinton said in a lengthy statement. But she added, “I won’t stop calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign.”

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"I won't stop calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign." —Hillary



Speaking at a fundraiser in New York City on Friday, Clinton declared, “You know to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” she added: “…the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it.”

Following her comment, the Democratic nominee has faced backlash on Twitter, with #BasketofDeplorables being the top trending hashtag for hours.

Her statement of regret comes after her spokesman Nick Merrill tried to clarify her comments earlier on Saturday and after Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway called for an apology.

Trump’s runningmate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence also slammed Clinton’s comments at the Values Voter Summit early Saturday afternoon, demanding that her comments be disavowed.

“They are not a basket of anything,” he defended. “They are Americans and they deserve your respect.”

Clinton’s labeling of “half” of Trump supporters resembles 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s comment that nearly half — 47 percent — of the country’s population are “victims” that are “dependent upon government” and won’t vote for him.

In 2012, Obama responded to Romney’s statement, saying, “We need a President who is fighting for all Americans, not one who writes off nearly half the country.”


http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/09/10/hillary-clinton-says-she-regrets-calling-millions-of-americans-basket-of-deplorables/

Hillary, you are such a liar. There is no "alt-right". There's no such thing. This is a figment of your drugged up imagination. Trump doesn't even know what the "alt-right" is, he's not even sure what a white nationalist is or who David Duke really is. I think a white nationalist is a white person who supports nationalist policies on trade and immigration just as a black nationalist is a black person who supports nationalist policies on trade and immigration and an Hispanic nationalist is an hispanic person who supports nationalist policies on trade and immigration. The KKK is dead and David Duke is no longer a wizard, just like some of your supporters are no longer Black Panthers, or KKK members spending Sundays pouring through Daddy's Lynching Scrapbook, or Weather Underground Terrorists building bombs like Bill Ayres.

But whoever they are and whatever they are doing now or did in the past, they are still America. They may deserve a boycott for laughing at your elitist put down of Americans, but they are part of America and TRUMP WANTS THEIR VOTES!!

In the quiet of their voting stall, in spite of their laughs and giggles at your outrageous comments, irrespective of the Hollywood In to support you, I think you'll be surprised how many look at the name Trump o that ballot, and think about his speeches, his rallies, his people, his goals, his mission, his energy, his plans, his policies, his nice suits, silk shirt and handsome ties, his big golf courses and skyscraper hotels and compare them to you, they might just say to themselves, you know ... I want what he wants, I want what his supporters want, I want to Make America Great Again for All Americans, too. I'm one of them, so I'm voting for Trump!!

Oh yeah, I think you've given them pause and they see that Trump Train Rollin' Rollin' Rollin' straight and strong to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the same street as his new magnificent first truly luxury hotel in our nation's capital, and they'll want to be with him, they'll want to be invited to the new Ball Room at the White House. Some of your people are getting old, Hillary, and they will NOT want to miss Trump's Ballroom Opening.

You know it, I know it, and they know it.

Trump's got this.

You know it, I know it, and they know it.

That's why you're tired. You know he's the better candidate. It's that agony of defeat setting in and there's nothing you can do about it except be a gracious loser. Again.

No, she does not regret it. She has been using this line about the people of America for some time. Here she is on Israeli TV saying the same thing.

She said the same thing on Israeli TV.

Hillary Clinton calls all Trump supporters deplorable haters and racists on Israeli TV
Published on Sep 9, 2016


Hillary Clinton has the audacity to call Donald Trump supporters, aka 50% of the population of the United States of America, deplorable haters and racists on Israeli TV.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPbH5G0nSSA

http://www.alipac.us/f9/clinton-says...rables-337171/

Like all criminals, she just regrets getting caught.

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