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.”
She was certainly right about one thing, SHE ISN’T GOING ANYWHERE, UNFORTUNATELY.
Hillary is like herpes.
Where was the side of beef when her husband was raping women?!!
The Democrats get the majority of Black Votes, what dog whistle do they use Mrs. Clinton?
Naturally Hillary’s ears are attuned to sounds only dogs can hear.
STFU
B.
Bill Clinton on Obama: A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee - Donald Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gXeAYfxVLY
Now we are deplorable dogs.
Typical liberal. She can’t see beyond race to behavior.
Tell that to the high school administrators that now have angry black mothers demanding the anthem not be played. Or the colleges who face a steeper cliff if they lose fan support.
This is just the beginning. It is now being framed as “The American Anthem and flag are racist. REMOVE THEM NOW!”
You will see an NFL team remove all patriotic displays by the end of October, and then saying that the reason that ticket sales have dropped is because of racism.
They always double down. Always.
Lying demagogue. Please excuse the redundancy.
Wow! This nasty woman just has to be in the news all the time. Now she’s taking on the race baiting role of Sharpton and the like.
What a vile POS with zero redeeming qualities. In fact she has the opposite of qualities; she only has negative personality traits. Hey! She’s an obama clone!
The woman is just vile.
I thought the attack was against pampered millionaires...
Will leftist ever be able to perceive people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin ?
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