Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton doubled down on her assertion that real estate mogul Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric is playing into terrorists’ hands Tuesday at a town hall in Keota, Iowa.
“If you go on Arabic television as we have and you look at what is being blasted out with video of Mr. Trump being translated into Arabic—no Muslims coming the U.S., other kinds of derogatory, defamatory statements—it is playing into the hands of the violent jihadists,” Clinton said during her speech.
During Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate, Clinton said Trump was “becoming ISIS’s best recruiter.” She also said the terrorist group is showing videos of the mogul to recruit radicals. Trump promptly called her a liar and demanded an apology during an appearance on NBC’s “Today.”
Clinton also said at the town hall that Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric “not only dangerous, it’s shameful.” But she did not respond to crude comments Trump made about her Monday night, including saying that she was “schlonged” by President Obama in the 2008 election and that her bathroom break at Saturday’s debate was “disgusting.”
