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## Video: Donald Trump Fires Back at Hillary Clinton’s ‘Basket of Deplorables’ Comment

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_Published 2016-09-12. Donald Trump slammed Hillary Clinton for comments she made at a fundraiser last week that suggested half of the Republican nominee’s supporters are racist, sexist, homophobic, and/or Islamaphobic who’d fit neatly into a “basket of deplorables.”_


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## Transcript

Hillary Clinton believes she above the law, that she's above accountability and that she is above each and everyone of you. She call this patriotic, men and women, every vile name in the book. She call them racists, sexists Xenophobic, Islamophobic, she called half of our supporters a basket of deplorables. It was perhaps the most explicit attack on the American voter ever spoken by a major party presidential Nominee. You cannot run for president if you have such contempt in your heart for the American voter and she does. While Hillary Clinton lives a sequestered life behind gates and walls and guards, she mocks and demeans hardworking American Who only want their own families to enjoy a fraction of the security enjoyed by our politicians.

After months of hiding from the press, Hillary Clinton has revealed her true thoughts. That was her true thoughts. She revealed herself to be a person Who looks down on the proud citizens of our country, as subjects for her rule. She views it as her rule.

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