--- title: Hillary Clinton: Read Her Speech on Donald Trump's 'Hate' description: Hillary Clinton condemned Donald Trump on Thursday for "taking hate groups mainstream" in his presidential bid canonical: https://time.com/4466706/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-radical-fringe-hate-transcript/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-25T19:41:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2024-01-24T12:29:58.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Hillary Clinton's Speech on Donald Trump and the GOP's 'Radical Fringe' og:description: "He’s taking hate groups mainstream" og:url: https://time.com/4466706/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-radical-fringe-hate-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Hillary Clinton's Speech on Donald Trump and the GOP's 'Radical Fringe' twitter:description: "He’s taking hate groups mainstream" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Read Hillary Clinton's Speech on Donald Trump and the GOP's 'Radical Fringe' > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:29 PM UTCPublished: Aug 25, 2016 7:41 PM UTC  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:29 PM UTCPublished: Aug 25, 2016 7:41 PM UTC Hillary Clinton [condemned Donald Trump on Thursday](http://time.com/4466218/hillary-clinton-reno-donald-trump-hate-groups/?xid=homepage) for “taking hate groups mainstream” in his presidential bid. “He’s taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America’s two major political parties. His disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly dangerous,” Clinton said, speaking at a community college in Reno, Nevada. “A man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far reaches of the internet, should never run our government or command our military,” she added. 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