Not even the mainstream media could cover up the fact that Hillary Clinton made a major diplomatic snafu overnight when she called half of Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables”, adding that they were ‘racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic.” Which is perhaps why, moments ago, Hillary almost, but not quite, apologized for her statement when said she regretted slamming ‘half’ of Donald Trump’s supporters but stood by her characterization that much of his campaign is ‘deplorable.’
‘Last night I was ‘grossly generalistic,’ and that’s never a good idea. I regret saying ‘half’ – that was wrong,’ Clinton said in a statement.
Alas, her apology appears to have only made matters, and the confusion, worse:
Is Hillary apologizing for calling Trump voters deplorable or for getting the “half” wrong, and if not “half”, what is the real number
– zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 10, 2016
In any case, that was her “apology”; however just to avoid appearing weak, she added that “let’s be clear, what’s really ‘deplorable’ is that Donald Trump hired a major advocate for the so-called ‘alt-right’ movement to run his campaign and that David Duke and other white supremacists see him as a champion of their values.’ Clinton was referring to Trump’s campaign CEO Steve Bannon, formerly the chairman of Breitbart News.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Sep 10, 2016.
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