Don't be Misled by Trump - Clinton Says | Felix Omoko Blog
"I want people to have made an informed
choice," Clinton said. "I don’t want folks to be misled, to listen to
the rhetoric and the demagoguery."
"I think Donald Trump poses a serious
threat to our democracy, and it’s going to be up to all of us to repudiate
the hatefulness," she added.
The comments came at the tail end of her journey
through two battleground states — Ohio and Pennsylvania — with stops focused on
swing or Republican voters. Clinton traveled with her running mate, Sen. Tim
Kaine (Va.), and his wife, Anne Holton. Former president Bill Clinton
joined the group for several stops on the tour.
The bus tour comes as Trump is embroiled in
controversy over his response to criticism from the family of a
fallen soldier at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last week.
Clinton defended Khizr Khan and his wife,
Ghazala, whose son, Army Capt. Humayun Khan, was killed in Iraq in 2004.
Clinton denounced Trump's "attacks on
distinguished military leaders" and accused him
of "insulting the family of a fallen soldier — Captain Khan, an
American Muslim who sacrificed his life to protect his unit and other soldiers
as a taxi raced toward a base containing a bomb."
After the Khans appeared at the convention, Trump
expressed some criticism in an interview with ABC, suggesting that Ghazala
Khan was not permitted to speak because she is Muslim. Ghazala Khan
has since said that she was unable to speak because she is still overcome with
grief over the loss of her son.
Earlier in the day, Clinton called Trump's
comments on the Khans part of a pattern.
"One doesn't know where the bottom is,"
Clinton told reporters in Ashland, Ohio, on Sunday. "It's hard to imagine
anyone who has ever run to be president of the United States saying any of what
he said."
"And the accumulation of it all is just
beyond my comprehension," she added.
But Clinton declined to comment on what Trump's
statements say about his character, remarking only that he is
"temperamentally unfit and unqualified" to serve as president.
Speaking in Columbus, she returned to Khizr
Khan's speech and noted his invocation of the principles of religious
liberty "enshrined" in the founding of the country.
"When his father spoke at the convention and
pulled out a copy of the Constitution, it was so fitting that that
happened in Philadelphia, where our country started 240 years ago,"
she added. "George Washington, Thomas Jefferson —
they addressed different religions, including Islam, that were
present in America from the very beginning."
"I want all of us to stand for freedom
and equality and justice and opportunity now and forever."