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Trump's latest attack on Hillary Clinton: same message, different delivery
Source: The Guardian
Trump's latest attack on Hillary Clinton: same message, different delivery
Ben Jacobs in Washington
Wednesday 22 June 2016 18.40 BST
Donald Trump’s much anticipated “pivot” seems to be far more about style than substance. In a speech held at a Trump hotel in Manhattan on Wednesday, the presumptive Republican nominee read his remarks deliberately off a teleprompter. There were few ad libs and Trump stayed relatively on-script.
However, the Republican nominee still alleged without evidence that the Chinese government had a “blackmail file” on Hillary Clinton, whom he blamed for the deaths of thousands of Americans; repeated debunked claims that he had opposed the Iraq war before it began; and used demagogic rhetoric about Syrian refugees. His message barely changed, it was just presented in a far more conventional way.
The main theme of Trump’s speech, originally scheduled for last week in New Hampshire but postponed due to the Orlando massacre, was that Clinton “is a world-class liar” and that the former secretary of state “lacks the temperament, the judgment and the competence to lead”. The presumptive Republican nominee regurgitated allegations from two books – the controversial Clinton Cash by journalist Peter Schweitzer, and Crisis in Character, a memoir by a former secret service agent that has been blasted as inaccurate by the nonpartisan association of retired secret service agents.
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It is not unusual for Republicans to criticize Clinton. But Trump did so in an over-the-top manner far beyond the normal bounds of American politics. Even though other Republican presidential candidates such as Ted Cruz would joke about Clinton going to prison in the course of the primary and vociferously criticized her handling of the 2012 terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, such personal attacks by one presidential candidate on another are almost unprecedented in American politics.
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Ben Jacobs in Washington
Wednesday 22 June 2016 18.40 BST
Donald Trump’s much anticipated “pivot” seems to be far more about style than substance. In a speech held at a Trump hotel in Manhattan on Wednesday, the presumptive Republican nominee read his remarks deliberately off a teleprompter. There were few ad libs and Trump stayed relatively on-script.
However, the Republican nominee still alleged without evidence that the Chinese government had a “blackmail file” on Hillary Clinton, whom he blamed for the deaths of thousands of Americans; repeated debunked claims that he had opposed the Iraq war before it began; and used demagogic rhetoric about Syrian refugees. His message barely changed, it was just presented in a far more conventional way.
The main theme of Trump’s speech, originally scheduled for last week in New Hampshire but postponed due to the Orlando massacre, was that Clinton “is a world-class liar” and that the former secretary of state “lacks the temperament, the judgment and the competence to lead”. The presumptive Republican nominee regurgitated allegations from two books – the controversial Clinton Cash by journalist Peter Schweitzer, and Crisis in Character, a memoir by a former secret service agent that has been blasted as inaccurate by the nonpartisan association of retired secret service agents.
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It is not unusual for Republicans to criticize Clinton. But Trump did so in an over-the-top manner far beyond the normal bounds of American politics. Even though other Republican presidential candidates such as Ted Cruz would joke about Clinton going to prison in the course of the primary and vociferously criticized her handling of the 2012 terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, such personal attacks by one presidential candidate on another are almost unprecedented in American politics.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/22/donald-trump-speech-new-hampshire-hillary-clinton-orlando
