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29 Feb 2016: Podesta emails: From Patrick Healy NYT
Hi Angel, hi Tina, Hope you’re both well. Amy Chozick and I are doing a story about how the Clinton campaign and its supporters view Trump as a general election opponent and plan to run against him. The story will run in tomorrow’s paper...
President Clinton, like others, thinks that Trump has his finger on the pulse of the electorate’s mood and that only a well-financed, concerted campaign portrayed him as dangerous and bigoted will win what both Clintons believe will be a close November election...
He, Mrs. Clinton, and the campaign all agree that they will need to seize on opportunities to paint Trump as extremist and recklessly impulsive...
Happy to talk this over by email or phone before 6pm today. Thanks, Patrick
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/59194

29 February 2016: NYT: Inside the Clinton Team’s Plan to Defeat Donald Trump
By Amy Chozick and Patrick Healy
They were confident that his incendiary remarks about immigrants, women and Muslims would make him unacceptable to many Americans. They had faith that the growing electoral power of black, Hispanic and female voters would deliver a Clinton landslide if he were the Republican nominee.
But others, including former President Bill Clinton, dismissed those conclusions as denial. They said that Mr. Trump clearly had a keen sense of the electorate’s mood and that only a concerted campaign portraying him as dangerous and bigoted would win what both Clintons believe will be a close November election...
During the Republican debate on Thursday, the Clinton campaign posted an image on Instagram that said, “These are not American values: Racism, sexism, bigotry, discrimination, inequality.”
Mr. Trump emphatically denies being bigoted, saying he is simply not “politically correct.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/us/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-general-election.html

MSM ramped it up following the NYT piece:

1 Mar 2017: The Atlantic: Who Are Donald Trump’s Supporters, Really?
by Derek Thompson
They Live in Parts of the Country With Racial Resentment

1 March 2016: The Daily Beast: NASCAR Sponsor: Donald Trump Too Racist to Endorse
by Asawin Suebsaeng

1 March 2016: Time: Trump’s Views Are More Dangerous Than the KKK
By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.

1 March 2016: WaPo: Donald Trump and David Duke: For the record

2 March 2016: NPR: Journalists Struggle To Describe Trump’s Racially Charged Rhetoric
by David Folkenflik
Last year, The Huffington Post assigned stories on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to the entertainment section, seeing him as a buffoonish diversion.
It now appears to view Trump as a threat, attaching an editor’s note to the end of every article about him to inform readers he “is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully.”...

3 March 2016: Star Tribune: Norm Coleman: I will never vote for Donald Trump
He’s a bigot, a misogynist, a fraud and a bully.
by Norm Coleman

4 March 2016: Cosmopolitan: Donald Trump Gives White Men Permission to Be Sexist and Racist
Republicans have communicated bigotry and intolerance for years. Trump simply uses a bullhorn
By Jill Filipovic

5 March 2016: CNN: Louis C.K.: ‘Insane bigot’ Donald Trump ‘is Hitler’
By Gregory Krieg

10 March 2016: ABC: The White Nationalists Who Support Donald Trump
By Candace Smith

below every HuffPo Trump campaign article:

3 March 2016: HuffPo: Growing Number Of GOP Politicians Refuse To Back Donald Trump In The General Election
By Amanda Terkel
Editor’s Note: Donald Trump is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/gop-donald-trump_us_56d71f25e4b03260bf78dbf2

and much more. it didn’t work then, but the FakeNewsMSM and Dems are still following the Clinton playbook today. make sure it doesn’t work in 2020.