Trump rebukes racism claims as Clinton warns of radicalism

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets supporters outside the Hub Coffee Roasters, in Reno, Nev., Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. “I believe my aides also acted appropriately”, she said.

Trump, who also met Thursday in NY with members of a new Republican Party initiative meant to train young – and largely minority – volunteers, has been working to win over blacks and Latinos in light of his past inflammatory comments and has been claiming that the Democrats have taken minority voters’ support for granted.

Donald Trump hasn’t been mincing words with his views on Hillary Clinton’s race relations, calling her “a bigot” during a MS campaign stop this week.

“I am reaching out to everyone, Republicans, Democrats, independents, everyone who is as troubled as I am by the bigotry and divisiveness of Donald Trump’s campaign”, she told MSNBC, adding she was asking “fair-minded Americans to repudiate this kind of divisive demagoguery”.

“She lies, she smears, she paints decent Americans as racists”, said Trump, who then defended some of the core – and to some people, divisive – ideas of his candidacy. Mr Trump’s video also shows United States senator Bernie Sanders, Ms Clinton’s main opponent in the Democratic primary this year, calling that a racist term. The video also shows Clinton’s former Democratic rival, Bernie Sanders, denouncing the phrase as “a racist term”.

Given that Trump’s support among black voters has been estimated between 2 percent and 8 percent-and given his history of making some rather awkward comments when it comes to race-it’s not too surprising that Clinton would fire back with an ad highlighting Trump’s track record rather than defending her own.

Former President Bill Clinton announced last week that if Hillary Clinton is elected president, the Clinton Foundation would no longer accept foreign and corporate donations, he would step down from its board and he no longer would raise money for the organization. She replied, “I am sure”, and mentioned her strong understanding about the foundation’s work.

But neither that issue nor her emails appears to be going away soon.

The State Department now says it doesn’t expect to publicly produce all the detailed daily schedules showing meetings by Clinton covering her time as secretary of state before Election Day.

The agency told The Associated Press it expects to release the last of the files around December 30.

Republicans have long accused her of running a pay-to-play operation, but those allegations took on new life after The Associated Press reported that foundation donors accounted for more than half of the meetings she held with people outside of government.

After Hillary Clinton uncorked her big “Alt-Right” conspiracy theory speech, feedback poured in and little of it was good. She promised to put in place additional safeguards to prevent conflicts of interest with her foundation should she win the White House.

“I appreciate the concerns that people have expressed, and that’s why I have made it clear that if I’m successful in November we are going to be taking additional steps”, she said.

“The work has been not only transformational, it has really been in line with American interests and values”, she said in an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”.

Clinton said she doesn’t expect any more political distractions to arise from her use of a private server.