Hillary Clinton says ‘deplorables’ comment about Trump supporters is ‘grossly generalistic’

Sep 11, 2016- United States presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has apologised for calling half of Donald Trump’s supporters “deplorable” people. “In one of those cases – not previously reported – Trump spent $20,000 of money earmarked for charitable purposes to buy a six-foot-tall painting of himself”, the Post said.

Sixty-one percent of Trump supporters say they are following the campaign very closely, and 93 percent say they will definitely vote. They’re not expected to make public remarks at the event, and both have promised to suspend campaign activities out of respect for the victims, first responders and their families. He added that millions of Americans supported Trump because they were “sick of corrupt career politicians like Hillary Clinton”.

Republicans and Trump supporters responded fiercely on social media to Clinton’s remarks at the LGBT fundraiser and the episode threatened to distract from her efforts to paint Trump as unqualified for the presidency.

The rivals are neck and neck in the key battleground states of OH and Florida.

Sarah Huckabee, a senior adviser to Trump, tweeted on Saturday that Clinton’s “deplorables” comment was “disqualifying” and worse than the “47 percent” comment. “And she wouldn’t be prosecuted”.

Clinton’s campaign also pointed out that she had already spent an hour and half at the event on a warm day, although it was relatively cooler than the week preceding when temperatures on the east coast were in the 90s.

She said she regrets only half of her statement, emphasizing that it is “really deplorable” that Trump is affiliated with people from the right-winged “alt-right movement”, and that “David Duke and other white supremacists see him as a champion of their values”. “It’s like incredible”, he said. “Unfortunately there are people like that”. And he has lifted them up.

A total of 2996 people died on 11 September 2001 when al-Qaeda militants hijacked four planes, crashing two into the World Trade Center’s twin towers in NY, a third into the Pentagon and the fourth into a field in Pennsylvania. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric.

The Democratic nominee noted that “some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but they are not America”.

“If I were to be grossly generalistic, I would say you can take Trump supporters and put them in two big baskets”, Clinton said.

“How can she be President of our country when she has such contempt and disdain for so many great Americans?” he said in a statement.

Clinton’s comments, in contrast, are clearly about people who were already voting for her opponent.

In a campaign statement on Saturday, the former Secretary of State apologized in part for the crack, saying that she was “wrong” to suggest half of Trump’s backers were deplorable.

The head of the Republican National Committee is describing Hillary Clinton’s description of Donald Trump supporters as “insulting”. Romney had said 47% of Americans on government dole supported Obama. “It sounds out of touch and condescending. trying to explain away Trump’s supporters to a NY money crowd”. “Some kid getting off the bus at the Port Authority and somebody’s waiting to take advantage of that scared but fearless kid looking for a different life and a future that actually belongs to him or her”.

Comments about voters – also at private fundraisers – have tripped up presidential nominees in the past. Obama said at the time that “it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations”.