Source: Time
By Maya Rhodan
Hillary Clinton did not mince words at a rally in Nevada on Thursday, arguing that Donald Trump is “taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over” the Republican Party.
“This is what I want to make clear today: a man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far dark reaches of the Internet, should never run our government or command our military,” she said. “Ask yourself: if he doesn’t respect all Americans, how can he serve all Americans?”
Clinton delivered a scathing critique of Trump’s positions in regard to minority communities, from his call to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., his rhetoric on Mexican immigrants, and his position as the loudest voice in the anti-Obama birther movement.
Clinton’s remarks come amid new efforts by the Trump campaign to appeal to people of color. In a series of speeches this week, Trump has asked black Americans what they would lose by voting for him, painting the collective community as one ravaged by poverty, crime and hopelessness. On Thursday, Clinton released a scathing online ad that featured members of the Ku Klux Klan talking about their support for Trump.
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