Clinton Camp Calls Donald Trump Out for Peddling Lies and Blaming Others

Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 07:09 pm

Hillary for America’s Director of Jewish Outreach Sarah Bard slammed presumptive Republican 2016 nominee Donald Trump in a statement, calling him out for lying and blaming others when he was busted using an anti-Semite image gleaned from a neo-Nazi website.

“Donald Trump’s use of a blatantly anti-Semitic image from racist websites to promote his campaign would be disturbing enough, but the fact that it’s a part of a pattern should give voters major cause for concern,” Bard wrote.

“Now, not only won’t he apologize for it, he’s peddling lies and blaming others.”

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Bard pointed out what a president should be doing and it’s the opposite of what Trump is doing, “Trump should be condemning hate, not offering more campaign behavior and rhetoric that engages extremists. The president should be someone who brings Americans together, not someone who sends signals and offers policies of division.”

This is the larger problem with Donald Trump. Yesterday he tweeted (not even a RT) the racist image that originated on a neo-Nazi site. As soon as the backlash started, Trump surrogates were pretending the Star of David was a “simple” star and blaming the media and “political correctness running amok.”

Today, on the 4th of July, Donald Trump whined again about allegedly bad treatment he was getting from the press. No, he didn’t apologize or acknowledge his bad judgment. He blamed the media.

Donald Trump refuses to be accountable for his own tweets, so how can he run a country?

This is hardly a one-off. Trump has retweeted white supremacists 75 times. This is a deliberate choice to invoke horrific imagery and then when busted, he cries and blames others. Not exactly leadership material.

It’s got to be tough to be part of the Hillary Clinton campaign right now, because the best thing they can do is sit back and let Donald Trump bury himself, with a few statements when something particularly egregious happens.

Of course, something particularly egregious happens almost daily.

Republicans worked studiously on your dime for years in order to throw enough accusations at Clinton that her “trust” rating would drop. And then they let Donald Trump be their nominee. We’ll chalk this up to more failing to see where the boat was heading.

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