As Donald Trump faces a barrage of accusations that he groped and kissed several women over decades and as Trump continued lashing out against the press, opponents and those within his own party, Hillary Clinton said Friday night that she got “no satisfaction” from how Trump had handled himself.
According to the New York Times, Clinton told volunteers in Seattle that she would spend the final weeks of her campaign trying to help the country repair itself after a bitter election.
“This election is incredibly painful. I take absolutely no satisfaction in what is happening on the other side with my opponent,” Clinton said, according to the Times. “I am not at all happy about that because it hurts our country, it hurts our democracy, it sends terrible messages to so many people here at home and around the world.”
At a time when the election seems to be more full of personal attacks than substance, Clinton urged her supporters not to “turn away”. Instead she asked they “start looking after each other again.”
“I will be asking for your help. I need your help not just to win this election but to govern and to heal the divides that exist in our country right now,” Clinton said at a fundraiser earlier in the day, according to the Times. “I do believe there isn’t anything we can’t do once we make up our minds to do it.”
Clinton said that there was damage to repair after Trump’s candidacy.
“So make no mistake, we do have to repair the damage which he has done, which we will do. But on both domestic and national security grounds, repudiating his candidacy sends exactly the right message,” she said, according to the Times.
Fair enough Hilz but many of us (POTUS included, imo) deeply enjoy seeing Trump setting his hair on fire and going down in flames.
Yeah sure. I’ll wait for the WikiLeaks version of this story:)
Madame President.
I agree much damage done and healing necessary. We must pull the foreign body thorn from our side as part of the healing process.
Trump at best perhaps an unwitting Agent Orange. Trump thrives on conspiracy theory. Perhaps he himself is part of one. Given that at his intelligence briefing he was given evidence that the Russians were hacking our political campaign, his suggestion at two debates that there was no evidence of that (e.g., “perhaps a 400 pound person sitting on a sofa did it”) makes sense only if he truly is voluntarily working with the Russians or they are blackmailing him with something much more damning than has already been released to the media so far. I suspect the second is true. I would wager he knows that the Wikileaks stuff is coming from Russia to unsettle Hillary and help him, but doesn’t realize, or more likely doesn’t care, that he is simply one card in the much larger game the Russians are playing.
I believe the disconnect between intelligence briefing content (confirmed by intelligence officers) and Trump’s public statements windows a seriously impaired mind and/or an irredeemably compromised candidate. The sexual misconduct is bad, but this likely to be far worse.