--- title: Why Hillary Clinton is Taking on the Alt-Right description: There is confusion about Donald Trump's revised immigration plan. Hillary Clinton will cast Donald Trump as an enabler of the alt-right. canonical: https://time.com/4465809/why-hillary-clinton-is-taking-on-the-alt-right/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-25T14:27:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-07T06:44:13.998Z article:section: Politics og:title: Why Hillary Clinton is Taking on the Alt-Right og:description: There is confusion about Donald Trump's revised immigration plan. 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It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, twice a week. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-dcbrief-2026q3/newsletters?i=2ba61c83-9dde-4762-af08-f14822730377&cr=time-nl-dcbrief-2026q3-v1) ## Video: Donald Trump Message to African Americans [Watch (HLS stream): Donald Trump Message to African Americans](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/auqoP9Mm.m3u8) (1:20)  _Published 2016-08-20. Republican Donald Trump again made a direct appeal to black voters Friday night, urging them to abandon the Democratic Party and give him a chance._ by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Aug 25, 2016 2:27 PM UTC by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Aug 25, 2016 2:27 PM UTC **_If you only read one thing:_** _Donald Trump’s continued confusion about his revised immigration plan has supporters and opponents alike puzzled about what he truly intends to do. In the last 48 hours, Trump has provided contradictory policies—from opposing “amnesty” to calling for those in the U.S. illegally to pay back taxes and that he’d “work with them” to stay. Trump’s shift comes after he ran to the right of his rivals on immigration in the GOP,_ [_attacking_](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/647760665277530112) _them for shifting because of poll numbers. Now he appears to be doing the same thing._ Hillary Clinton will seek to cast Trump as an enabler of the alt-right and “very much peddling bigotry, and prejudice, and paranoia” in a speech Thursday. Her comments come after Trump called her a “bigot” Wednesday. Meanwhile, she continues her defense on the Clinton Foundation, claiming the organization subjected itself to unprecedented transparency while she was at the State Department. But it was only unprecedented because so large a potential conflict of interest had never before existed, and despite their efforts, the foundation was found to have violated its agreement with the Obama Administration on at least one occasion. Bernie Sanders’ campaign troubles continue. Clinton’s answer to why she hasn’t held a press conference. And what Donald Trump knew about undocumented workers at Trump Tower. _Here are your must reads:_ **Must Reads** [What Donald Trump Knew About Undocumented Workers at His Signature Tower ](http://time.com/4465744/donald-trump-undocumented-workers/)He has long denied knowingly using undocumented workers to demolish the building that would be replaced with Trump Tower, TIME’s Massimo Calabresi investigates [The Benefits of Friendship With Hillary Clinton ](http://time.com/4465732/the-benefits-of-friendship-with-hillary-clinton/)TIME’s Sam Frizell on the latest cloud over Clinton [Welcome to the Trump-Clinton Conspiracy Election ](https://apnews.com/a691bdb3ed24421ebc17a26641db294b/Welcome-to-the-Trump-Clinton-conspiracy-election)Both sides look to cast blame \[Associated Press\] [Trump Adds to Confusion on Immigrants: No Citizenship, but ‘We Work With Them’ ](http://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-adds-to-confusion-on-immigrants-no-citizenship-but-we-work-with-them-1472089209)Critics say GOP nominee adopting amnesty policy he blasted during primaries \[Wall Street Journal\] [Trump ‘Softening’ on Immigration? Many of His Supporters Don’t Seem to Mind. ](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-softening-on-immigration-many-of-his-supporters-dont-seem-to-mind/2016/08/24/668f91e2-6a0c-11e6-ba32-5a4bf5aad4fa%5Fstory.html)Trump seems to get a pass on his flip-flop \[Washington Post\] **Sound Off** “I have been asked many, many questions in the past year about emails and what I have learned is that when I try to explain what happened, it can sound like I am trying to excuse what I did. And there are no excuses. I want people to know that the decision to have a single email account was mine. I take responsibility for it. I apologize for it. I would certainly do differently if I could.” — Clinton to CNN Wednesday night “Well I’m talking to you right now” — Clinton to CNN when asked why she hasn’t held a press conference since last year **Bits and Bites** [Donald Trump Asked Florida Governor to Appoint Attorney to Bench, Emails Show](http://time.com/4465079/donald-trump-attorney-florida/) \[Associated Press\] [Meet the Super PAC Airing an Ad in Florida Every 15 Minutes](http://time.com/4464921/priorities-usa-campaign-ads/) \[Center for Public Integrity\] [Bernie Sanders’s New Political Group Is Met by Staff Revolt](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/us/politics/bernie-sanders-our-revolution-group.html?em%5Fpos=medium&emc=edit%5Fcn%5F20160825&nl=first-draft&nl%5Fart=3&nlid=55003713&ref=img&te=1&%5Fr=0) \[New York Times\] [The Senator’s Daughter Who Raised Prices on the EpiPen](http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-08-24/the-senator-s-daughter-who-raised-prices-on-anti-allergy-epipen) \[Bloomberg\] [Debate Commission faces new challenge in selecting moderators](http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/24/media/debate-moderators/index.html) \[CNN\] [How many votes will Trump give up by not running a professional campaign? A lot.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/08/25/how-many-votes-will-trump-give-up-by-not-running-a-professional-campaign-a-lot/) \[Washington Post\] [Trump: ‘Hillary Clinton Is a Bigot’](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-hillary-clinton-bigot-n637476) \[NBC\] [Chaffetz to Trump: Release your tax returns](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/chaffetz-trump-tax-returns-kimono-227387) \[Politico\] ## Transcript Look how much African- American communities have suffered under democratic control. To those I say the following. What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump. What do you have to lose? If Hilary Clinton's goal was to inflict pain on the African American community, she could not have done a better job. It's a disgrace. Tonight I'm asking for the vote of every single African American citizen in this country who wants to see a better future. Hillary Clinton would rather provide a job to a refugee from overseas That to give that job to unemployed African American youth in cities like Detroit who have become refugees in their own country. And at the end of four years, I guarantee you that I will get over 95 % of the African American vote. I promise you. 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