Hillary was on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” last night, and offered a strong rebuke of the Republican front runner Donald Trump.
The Guardian has the scoop:
Donald Trump is no longer funny, he's dangerous, says Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton has condemned Donald Trump, calling him shameful, dangerous and declaring: “I no longer think he’s funny.”
Clinton launched her attack on the billionaire Republican front runner during an appearance on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers on Thursday, sparking loud applause from the audience.
This is the entire video of Hillary’s show appearance, she also lashes into the NRA here, talks about BCs future role, etc. To get to the Donald Trump segment scroll forward to 2 minutes into the video.
Good to see loud applause from a diverse audience like that, because it is troubling to note that a plurality of Republicans actually SUPPORTS Donald Trump’s fascist call for an entry ban on all Muslims, as can be seen in the latest NBC/WSJ poll shown in this article:
Donald Trump strikes chord with GOP voters over Muslims, poll finds
Hillary went on to say:
“I think for weeks, you know, you and everybody else were just bringing folks to hysterical laughter and all of that,” Clinton told the host. “But now he has gone way over the line. And what he’s saying now is not only shameful and wrong – it’s dangerous.”
Trump’s rhetoric was harming the nation’s ability to fight the rise of the Islamic State, feeding the group “propaganda” it could use to recruit, Clinton said.
“This latest demand that we not let Muslims into the country really plays right into the hands of the terrorists,” she said.
“I don’t say that lightly, but it does. He is giving them a great propaganda tool, a way to recruit more folks from Europe and the United States. And because it’s kind of crossed that line, I think everybody and especially other Republicans need to stand up and say ‘Enough, you’ve gone too far.’”
That last quote went a bit further than the Guardian had here. It went
“Enough, you’ve gone too far. That’s not who we are. That’s not the kind of country that we believe we are, and we’re just not going to tolerate it.”
Donald Trump is a disgrace to humanity. He is churning Islam hate, he is churning hate against Immigrants, he is churning hate against Blacks, and with that he is endangering us all. He IS extremely dangerous. I know that if we face him in the election next November we will likely beat him, and we will probably make more gains in the Senate and House we would otherwise be able to. But at what cost? We are, once again, the world’s laughingstock, the world is eyeing our election process with a mixture of amusement, bewilderment and fear, because the leading candidate for the nomination of one of our two parties is a dangerous fascist whose careless hate rhetoric could well spark attacks from all sides, from “White Power” Neonazis feeling emboldened to openly attack everyday Americans — Muslims, Hispanics, also gays/lesbians, everyone different, as well as it could very well might spark more attacks from radicalized Jihadists against us.
Read this interesting Salon article on that very issue:
Cut it out, Democrats! Why Trump vs. Hillary isn’t the miracle you seem to think it is
The idea that Trump is the Democrats’ best weapon has been around for a while—consider this Washington Post article from July about Democrats “cheering” his candidacy. And it’s perhaps understandable why some would see a Trump nomination as a boon to Hillary Clinton or anybody else who wants to block a Republican from the White House. But I hope that this line of thinking doesn’t gain too much credence, because Donald Trump’s candidacy is no gift to anyone. Nobody, even the most hardened Democratic partisans, should be gloating about his continued strength, because it’s helping to plunge us into truly dangerous waters.
Dangerous indeed.
Stormfront, the most prominent American white supremacist website, is upgrading its servers in part to cope with a Trump traffic spike. And former Louisiana Rep. David Duke reports that the businessman has given more Americans cover to speak out loud about white nationalism than at any time since his own political campaigns in the 1990s. […]
“Demoralization has been the biggest enemy and Trump is changing all that,” said Stormfront founder Don Black, who reports additional listeners and call volume to his phone-in radio show, in addition to the site’s traffic bump. Black predicts that the white nationalist forces set in motion by Trump will be a legacy that outlives the businessman’s political career. “He’s certainly creating a movement that will continue independently of him even if he does fold at some point.”
Trump is revitalizing the long dormant White Power movement in this country. They will be emboldened now that they have found a hero, a national leader no less, in Donald Trump.
Even Trump on his worst days would probably admit to himself that he didn’t intend to strengthen the white nationalist movement with his candidacy, but that is precisely what he is doing. There’s already evidence that white supremacists constitute the biggest domestic security threat in the United States. It’s not outlandish to imagine that threat increasing in the wake of the leading Republican presidential candidate whipping up such an openly racist frenzy.
Maybe Trump isn’t INTENDING to whip up such racist frenzy, in which case he is just as stupid as they come. But the dangers of such hostility aimed at everybody different, openly goaded on by “The Donald”, be they Immigrants, Muslims, Black Live Protesters, is clear and present. Remember how one BLM protester was kicked repeatedly by frenzied Trump Rumps while helplessly lying on the ground.
Candidate Donald Trump is very dangerous. I don’t want him to be our opponent for the general election, I can’t, and really don’t want to, imagine the kind of hatred he’ll churn during a general election season, and what that will do to this country. I don’t care if running against Donald Trump means an easy win for our nominee. The cost is too great. I rather run against Ted Cruz, Ben Carson or Marco Rubio. We’ll beat them all, but it will be without the open racist “White Power” connotations that Donald Trump brings to the table that is dangerous to all of us.
I don’t care WHO you are, with fascist Donald Trump as President YOU will have to look over your shoulders as well, afraid of someone reporting on you, spying on you, arresting you, killing or maiming you.
With Donald Trump as the nominee, remember the famous words of Pastor Martin Niemoeller from 1946:
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
You can replace the subjects here with Immigrants, Muslims, Blacks, Gays/Lesbians, Liberals, and the shoe fits perfectly.