Millionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump has a knack for projecting criticisms of himself back onto his opponents, however hamfistedly. The latest: Hillary Clinton is a bigot.
“Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future,” Trump said, reading from prepared remarks.
Unlike past lines that have drawn scrutiny, including Monday’s comments in Ohio about African Americans not being able to walk the street without being shot, this one was not a Trump ad-lib. …
Clinton, for her part, has repeatedly declined opportunities to call Trump himself a racist, despite repeated questioning on the subject and multiple labelings of some of his campaign statements as racist by her campaign.
Trump’s guest for the evening was UK far-right leader Nigel Farage, who as a younger man boasted that his initials matched those of the white supremacist National Front and sang jaunty ditties about gassing jews.
Mind you, all this did make me wonder: will it ever dawn on Team Hillary why headlines like “Republican announces support for Clinton” make people like her less?