At a rally on Wednesday evening, August 24, Donald Trump had the audacity to call Hillary Clinton a bigot. It’s a classic case of Republican projection, accusing your enemy of that which you are guilty.
Trump – ‘Hillary Clinton Is A Bigot’
Trump appeared to a crowd of supporters in Jackson, Mississippi on Wednesday evening. He’s trying to increase his appeal to African-American voters, with whom he currently polls at about 2 percent.
It should be noted that Jackson is a city that is 79 percent Black, yet Trump’s crowd was most definitely….not.
CNN reported Trump as saying:
“Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future. She doesn’t care what her policies have done to your communities. She has no remorse. She’s going to do nothing for Hispanics and African-Americans.”
A tweet posted by Sarah Wood, creator and editor-in-chief of the satirical website Free Wood Post, captured the moment perfectly:
This woman's face when Trump has the nerve to call Hillary a "bigot" ??? #Trump https://t.co/4iMbHe1out
— Sarah Wood (@sarahwoodwriter) August 25, 2016
Clinton Fires Back
Anyone with half a brain knows that Republican policies as a whole are terrible for pretty much anyone who isn’t white, Christian, wealthy, cisgender, heterosexual, and male. Though that didn’t stop Trump from attempting to sling mud at Clinton, she was ready with a response.
Clinton told CNN:
“He is taking a hate movement mainstream. He’s brought it into his campaign. He is bringing it to our communities and our country. And someone who has questioned the citizenship of the first African-American president, who has courted white supremacists, who has been sued for housing discrimination against communities of color, who has attacked a judge for his Mexican heritage and promised a mass deportation force, is someone who is very much peddling bigotry and prejudice and paranoia.”
Considering Trump’s vast and long history of racism, it’s a classic case of projection on the part of the Orange Menace.
Watch Clinton’s interview with Anderson Cooper here:
