Trump bashes Hillary Clinton again for ‘calling half the country “irredeemable” and “deplorable”’ during campaign stop
DONALD Trump bashed Hillary Clinton again for “calling half the country “irredeemable” and “deplorable”’ during his campaign stop.
Speaking at his rally in Lumberton, North Carolina on Saturday afternoon, Trump laid into his former presidential rival for her previous comments.
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Trump also praised one vocal audience member as a “historian” for shouting out her statements.
Her was referring to comments Clinton made about “half” of Trump’s supporters at a campaign event in New York City back in 2016.
“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said.
“The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”
Clinton then said the other half of his base “feel that the government has let them down” and are “desperate for change.”
“Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well,” she added.
Meanwhile, Trump also blasted Nancy Pelosi, who he described as “crazy as a bed bug” and praised the beauty parlor owner who revealed the House Speaker had gone maskless in her salon.
Trump even hinted that he would make an appearance at the California hairdressers in San Francisco to get his own hair done.
Later, he also discussed his voting experience in the Palm Beach County Public Library in West Palm Beach, Florida this morning, saying “you can’t get away” with anything at the polls.
“Then [they say] send in ballots,” he continued. “This is a horrible thing and it’s the only way we will use.
“Everyone should have voter ID,” he declared. “There’s only one reason the Democrats don’t want voter ID.”
Trump has repeatedly claimed that ballot fraud is rife with mail-in ballots – but in September, FBI Director Christopher Wray said they found no evidence of this.
He testified to Congress that the agency has not seen “any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election” – and that included mail-in voting.
Meanwhile, Trump appeared to be in flying form even though he complained of “baking in the sun” in the North Carolina heat.
After praising his own “powerful head of hair,” the president went on to decry experts questioning his Covid-19 immunity after contracting the disease in early October.
“I had it, you know – here I am!” he roared to the cheering crowd. “And now they say I’m immune.”
“It used to be that if you had it you were immune for life,” he added “With me, they say I’m immune for four months.
“At least for four months, I can run in there and kiss every man and woman … I’ll kiss every one of them!”
But scientists have urged people to err on the side of caution after contracting the virus and don’t know exactly how long or when someone is immune.
“There is not enough information currently available to say if or for how long after infection someone is protected from getting COVID-19 again,” read a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage updated on October 14.
“This is called natural immunity. Early evidence suggests natural immunity from COVID-19 may not last very long, but more studies are needed to better understand this.”
Trump then moved on to his slamming Joe Biden with just 10 days to go until their battle for the White House.
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“I did more in 47 months than Sleepy Joe did in 47 years,” he told the crowd, urging them to vote for him. “[Democrats] are going to take your guns away.
“Your Second Amendment will be obliterated totally, or almost totally.”
Today’s rally concluded as the president danced the Village People’s YMCA and clapped along with the audience.
