The backlash against Hillary Clinton’s basket of deplorables comments has gotten so bad, Hillary Clinton has been forced to issue a statement. While the media is calling it an apology, Clinton’s basket of deplorables statement today is nothing more than doubling down on her comments last night at a fundraiser.
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Clinton’s statement starts off with:
“Last night I was ‘grossly generalistic,’ and that’s never a good idea. I regret saying ‘half’ — that was wrong,”
So far no apology. Just admitting your wrong isn’t an apology. Then the statement continues as a double down to what Clinton said last night about the basket of deplorables:
“But let’s be clear,” she wrote, going on to rattle off a list of Trump’s offenses. “[W]hat’s really ‘deplorable’ is that Donald Trump hired a major advocate for the so-called ‘alt-right’ movement to run his campaign and that David Duke and other white supremacists see him as a champion of their values. It’s deplorable that Trump has built his campaign largely on prejudice and paranoia and given a national platform to hateful views and voices, including by retweeting fringe bigots with a few dozen followers and spreading their message to 11 million people.”
“I won’t stop calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign,” she went on, but she offered an olive branch of sorts to downscale Trump voters. “I also meant what I said last night about empathy, and the very real challenges we face as a country where so many people have been left out and left behind. As I said, many of Trump’s supporters are hard-working Americans who just don’t feel like the economy or our political system are working for them. I’m determined to bring our country together and make our economy work for everyone, not just those at the top.”
So it’s the standard Democrat talking points. Republicans are racist, hateful etc. You know, the usual bullshit. Still no apology.
Hillary Clinton is imploding, last night’s Mitt Romney moment caps another brutal week for the sick, frail old hag who’s poll numbers are falling faster than her rapist husband can go down on a young intern.
This is an unforced error by Clinton. In their younger years, which Slick Willy was running for president, they wouldn’t make these errors. The older the Clinton’s get, the worse they get at politics.