Earlier this week the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton released an ad highlighting the strong support Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has received from white supremacists across the nation.
Here’s the ad.
As a followup to the ad, on Thursday Hillary Clinton gave a speech in Reno, Nevada in which she accused Donald Trump of allying with racists and racist ideas. Here’s just a snippet from Clinton’s speech.
The man who today is the standard bearer of the Republican Party said a federal judge was incapable of doing his job solely because of his heritage.
Even the Republican Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, described that as “the textbook definition of a racist comment.”
To this day, he’s never apologized to Judge Curiel.
But for Trump, that’s just par for the course.
This is someone who retweets white supremacists online, like the user who goes by the name “white-genocide-TM.” Trump took this fringe bigot with a few dozen followers and spread his message to 11 million people.
His campaign famously posted an anti-Semitic image – a Star of David imposed over a sea of dollar bills – that first appeared on a white supremacist website.
The Trump campaign also selected a prominent white nationalist leader as a delegate in California. They only dropped him under pressure.
When asked in a nationally televised interview whether he would disavow the support of David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, Trump wouldn’t do it. Only later, again under mounting pressure, did he backtrack.
And when Trump was asked about anti-Semitic slurs and death threats coming from his supporters, he refused to condemn them.
Through it all, he has continued pushing discredited conspiracy theories with racist undertones.
If you’d like to watch Clinton’s speech in its entity, you can watch it below.
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