In an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 News, Clinton said in
explaining why she avoids the term “radical Islam” that “we’ve made a
judgment based on a lot of research that bringing Islam into the
definition of our enemy actually serves the purpose of the radical
jihadists … Trump has made Islam and Muslims part of his campaign, and
basically the jihadists see this as a great gift. They are saying, ‘Oh,
please Allah, make Trump president of America.’ So I’m not interested in
giving aid and comfort to their evil ambitions. I want to defeat them. I
want to end their reign of terror. I don’t want them to feel as though
they can be getting more recruits because of our politics.”
Clinton pointed to a recent Time magazine article by Matt Olsen, former chief of the National Counter terrorism Center, entitled “Why ISIS Supports Donald Trump.” Olsen wrote: “In recent months, ISIS has made clear that it’s closely following this election, too—and it has chosen a candidate.”
The Democratic nominee also suggested that she would specifically target ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the so-called caliph of the Islamic State, “just like we finally got Bin Laden.”
But much of the 20-minute, measured interview with news anchor Yonit Levi was a searing denunciation of Trump and the divisive campaign Clinton said he is waging.
When asked why this election has been so unusual, Clinton said:
“We’ve never had a nominee from one of our two major parties like Donald
Trump. What he has said, his divisiveness, his willingness to engage in
bigotry and bluster and bullying, his alliance with hate groups, white
supremacist groups, anti-Semitic groups, ant-women comments, his Islam
phobia, negativity toward immigrants, the list goes on. So that has
added an extra element of unpredictability and instability.”
“On paper, shouldn’t this race have been easier?” Levi asked the former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state.
Clinton said she never thought it would be easy, adding if she were to over-generalize, she would put Trump supporters in two big baskets. In one are what she says she calls “the deplorable – the racists, the haters, and the people who are drawn because they think somehow he’s going to restore an America that no longer exists.”
In the other group, Clinton continued, are a significant number of Americans who feel that nobody cares about them. “These people have a case to make and deserve to be listened to,” she said. “I happen to think they are signing up with the wrong candidate who’s never produced anything for anybody else” and who has had bankruptcies that cost thousands of jobs and who has scammed people. There is a level of fear and anger that the system is not working, she said.
Clinton pointed to a recent Time magazine article by Matt Olsen, former chief of the National Counter terrorism Center, entitled “Why ISIS Supports Donald Trump.” Olsen wrote: “In recent months, ISIS has made clear that it’s closely following this election, too—and it has chosen a candidate.”
The Democratic nominee also suggested that she would specifically target ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the so-called caliph of the Islamic State, “just like we finally got Bin Laden.”
But much of the 20-minute, measured interview with news anchor Yonit Levi was a searing denunciation of Trump and the divisive campaign Clinton said he is waging.
“On paper, shouldn’t this race have been easier?” Levi asked the former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state.
Clinton said she never thought it would be easy, adding if she were to over-generalize, she would put Trump supporters in two big baskets. In one are what she says she calls “the deplorable – the racists, the haters, and the people who are drawn because they think somehow he’s going to restore an America that no longer exists.”
In the other group, Clinton continued, are a significant number of Americans who feel that nobody cares about them. “These people have a case to make and deserve to be listened to,” she said. “I happen to think they are signing up with the wrong candidate who’s never produced anything for anybody else” and who has had bankruptcies that cost thousands of jobs and who has scammed people. There is a level of fear and anger that the system is not working, she said.
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