Posted on 09/26/2017 3:51:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Hillary Clinton weighed in on President Trump's controversial comments about NFL players kneeling for the national anthem. Clinton said it is "quite telling" that Trump is "willing to attack black athletes" but not white supremacists, the Klan, or Putin.
"He attacks black athletes as he did starting with his rally in Alabama. Continued on Twitter. And he attacks them for protesting peacefully for equality, for standing up for what they believe. And he does it once again to dog whistle to his base and to try to detract attention from other things that are going on. But it's quite telling that he is willing to attack black athletes," Clinton told MSNBC's Chris Hayes.
Clinton said Trump's comments about the NFL is a "dog whistle" to his base and an attempt to appeal to America's "dark underbelly."
From Clinton's interview on Monday's broadcast of All In:
CLINTON: He attacks black athletes as he did starting with his rally in Alabama. Continued on Twitter. And he attacks them for protesting peacefully for equality, for standing up for what they believe. And he does it once again to dog whistle to his base and to try to detract attention from other things that are going on. But it's quite telling that he is willing to attack black athletes.
He never says anything of an insulting manner towards white supremacists or neo-Nazis or Ku Klux Klaners or Vladimir Putin, right?
And then we've got North Korea, right, which is looming over us, and which has continued to escalate verbally with him sort of pushing it along. I don't understand what their strategy is. And now we've got the North Koreans saying well, if he is going to talk like that and essentially declare war against us, we're going to believe we have the right to shoot down American planes. All of this is swirling around at the same time. But he is making choices. And his choices are to continue to stimulate, motivate, and get the acclimation from his hard-core base that he saw in Alabama, and that he continues to reach out to.
And it's almost without regard to the consequences of trying to denigrate American athletes for exercising their constitutional rights, for continuing to pick rhetorical battles with North Korea?. It is something that he instinctually, viscerally does. But I think there is also a calculation to it.
Watch the full interview:
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Sorry Hills, race card expired.
Thank you God Almighty that this putrid old hag is not our president.
Oh this is what the witch wants? Imagine a Democrat, Hillary no less, wanting to incite race to promote a cause.
Interesting...
A dog knows about whistles. Hillary is quite a dog.
Witch. Please shut up.
“Racist dog whistle” is the DNC’s message de jour. All the leftist media outlets are repeating it.
What happened to the Russians?
If its a dog whistle, that must be why she heard it.
Rubbish! You have no power here. Begone! Before somebody drops a house on you, too!
I quit pro football gradually over the recent years, entirely separate and before Trump.
The thuggery, the violence against women, the criminality, yes the huge money, the continuous long commercials, ....led me to realize 3.5 hours to watch a game was wasted.
Witch, Please!
I don’t have the numbers, but I feel safe in estimating that the majority of people who have actually committed crimes against blacks supported HILLARY.
Unlike the Democrat/leftists/communists actually shooting Republican congressional representatives, wanting to blow up the WH, taking photos of a model of our President beheaded, casting satanic witch spells and calling for assassination attempts.
The left is so deserving of being on the receiving end of what they are calling for!
Just wait until he says something about fat women.
Gawd, she’s turned into a drama queen! Destroying herself and becoming a caricature of looooney! She is totally out of gas! Well... you know what I mean...
I’m giddy with glee to get to watch her crack up on LIVE TV and in public. I thought it would never happen, but otoh, I never thought she could live with herself outside of office and having people, places and things to manipulate in exchange for money.
I’m certain she is buying her own damn book by the cases.
Someone put a tampon in this criminal _unt.
Hill, Americans are tired of your race baiting. The president did call out the Klan AND Hill’s violent communist comrades.
Hillary, you lost.
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