Nichols: Trump came to pick a fight. Clinton came to open a conversation with the American people.

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John Nichols ?@NicholsUprising 26m26 minutes ago

Trump came to pick a fight.
Clinton came to open a conversation with the American people.
And that settled it.


https://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-prepared-for-the-debate-and-showed-she-is-prepared-for-the-presidency/






Hillary Clinton Prepared for the Debate, and Showed She Is Prepared for the Presidency
It was a winning line on what for Hillary Clinton was a winning night.


By John NicholsTwitter
Today 12:37 am

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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton square off at their first presidential debate, at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, New York. (Reuters / Rick Wilking)


Donald Trump did everything he possibly could to throw Hillary Clinton off her game.

 The Republican nominee for president came to bully his Democratic opponent and the moderator of the first debate of the fall campaign. He interrupted Clinton’s remarks constantly, aggressively, and obnoxiously. He sneered and shrugged and sniffled. He grimaced and grumbled. And then he interrupted some more.
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Then, as Trump was racing through an economic rant, moderator Lester Holt finally said: “Let me let Secretary Clinton get in here.”

Clinton calmly looked away from Trump and toward the tens of millions of American people who were watching the debate and offered a sobering history lesson.

“Well,” she said, “let’s stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago. We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession, the worst since the 1930s. That was in large part because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes off of Wall Street, and created a perfect storm.

“In fact, Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said, back in 2006, ‘Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money.’ Well, it did collapse.”

Trump knew he was in trouble. .....................