Bill Clinton defends embattled family foundation amid Republican attacks

But it’s never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone.

Clinton has reportedly told FBI investigators that her use of the private server was inspired by former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who has pushed back against the suggestion, saying, “Her people have been trying to pin it on me”.

In the past couple of weeks, Trump has sought to soften his image with minority communities, making explicit gestures to African Americans in particular.

Clinton is also targeting moderate voters – and especially Republicans – by depicting Trump and his supporters as extremists, and casting the race as “not a normal choice between a Republican and a Democrat”. But once the candidate herself calls it out, it invites a thousand think pieces about Breitbart, the alt-right, the GOP’s history of tolerating bigotry, Trump’s troubling background, and dozens of other related topics.

“She lies, she smears, she paints decent Americans as racists”, Trump said, in a Thursday address. Polls show minorities overwhelmingly favor Democrat Hillary Clinton. Clinton has since apologized.

“This is the year that the people who have been betrayed by Democratic policies – including millions and millions of African-American and Hispanic-American citizens – reject the politicians who have failed them over and over and over again”, Trump said.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Campaigning in Reno, Nevada, Clinton scrapped her plans to discuss proposals to boost small businesses in order to focus on what she described as unsafe rhetoric “like nothing we’ve heard before from a nominee. from one of our two major parties”.

And he’s been accused of going too far by overplaying poverty statistics and suggesting that virtually all black and Hispanic voters are impoverished inner-city residents.

But neither issue appears to be going away soon.

On Monday, the State Department said it was reviewing almost 15,000 previously undisclosed emails recovered as part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry, which was closed after investigators recommended against criminal charges. The AP’s lawyers asked the department late Friday to hasten its efforts and provide all of her minute-by-minute schedules by October 15. At his rallies, Trump often speaks in broad generalities, suggesting that all blacks are underemployed or unemployed and living in risky neighbourhoods that he has described as being more unsafe than war zones.

“Everywhere I go, people tell me how concerned they are by the divisive rhetoric coming from my opponent in this election”, Clinton said at a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada. The AP’s analysis focused on people with private interests and excluded her meetings or calls with federal employees or foreign government representatives.

“We’ll have to do more than when she was secretary of state, because if you make a mistake, there’s always appeal to the White House if you’re secretary of state”, Clinton said.

The “bad ones”, Trump said, will be deported from the country as his first act as president.

Clinton argued that more is known about the foundation than is known about Trump’s wealth, his business, or his tax returns.

“But look at who he’s put in charge of his campaign”. Jonathan Lemire contributed from Las Vegas and Jill Colvin from Washington.