--- title: Donald Trump Points to Clinton's 2008 Issues with Black Voters description: Donald Trump released a video on Instagram rehashing controversies between Hillary Clinton and black voters in 2008. canonical: https://time.com/4468141/donald-trump-video-hillary-clinton-black-voters/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-26T12:25:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:48:18.522Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Points to Clinton's 2008 Issues with Black Voters og:description: Donald Trump released a video on Instagram rehashing controversies between Hillary Clinton and black voters in 2008. og:url: https://time.com/4468141/donald-trump-video-hillary-clinton-black-voters/ 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: Donald Trump Points to Clinton's 2008 Issues with Black Voters twitter:description: Donald Trump released a video on Instagram rehashing controversies between Hillary Clinton and black voters in 2008. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Donald Trump Points to Clinton's 2008 Issues with Black Voters > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Aug 26, 2016 12:25 PM UTC  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Aug 26, 2016 12:25 PM UTC Donald Trump released a video on Instagram rehashing controversies between Hillary Clinton and black voters in 2008, one day after Clinton [gave a speech](http://time.com/4466218/hillary-clinton-reno-donald-trump-hate-groups/?xid=homepage) accusing Trump of stoking white nationalism. The video runs a clip of Clinton appearing on _Meet the Press_ as a presidential candidate in 2008\. Tim Russert shows Clinton a headline from South Carolina saying “Clinton Camp Hits Obama: Attacks ‘Painful’ For Black Voters.” It then continues through a montage of clips from the time of gaffes from Clinton’s campaign that may have hurt her with black voters (she ended up losing the black vote to Barack Obama by a large margin). Trump has been making a [new play for minority voters](http://time.com/4466179/donald-trump-black-voters-election/?xid=time%5Fsocialflow%5Ftwitter) in recent days, saying Thursday that they’ve become a “focal point” of his campaign. He [called Clinton a “bigot”](http://time.com/4465543/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bigot-mississippi-rally/) at a rally and said she “sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings.” In [a speech](http://time.com/4466706/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-radical-fringe-hate-transcript/?xid=homepage) Thursday, Clinton fired back at Trump with a scathing critique of his personality and record with black Americans, saying he is “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 dark reaches of the Internet.” **Read more:** [_What Donald Trump Knew About Undocumented Workers at His Signature Tower_](http://time.com/4465744/donald-trump-undocumented-workers/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4468141/donald-trump-video-hillary-clinton-black-voters/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4468141/donald-trump-video-hillary-clinton-black-voters/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Points to Clinton's 2008 Issues with Black Voters","datePublished":"2016-08-26T12:25:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:48:18.522Z","description":"After Democrat called him a \"man with a long history of racial discrimination\"","url":"https://time.com/4468141/donald-trump-video-hillary-clinton-black-voters/","keywords":["Donald Trump","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4468141/donald-trump-video-hillary-clinton-black-voters/","name":"Donald Trump Points to Clinton's 2008 Issues with Black Voters"}}]}] ```