Hillary Claims Her ‘Deplorables’ Comment Was in Response to the Access Hollywood Tape

‘I thought his behavior, as we saw on the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape was deplorable’

There’s A Huge Hole In Hillary Clinton’s Defense Of Her ‘Deplorables’ Comment (The Daily Caller)

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton played fast and loose with the facts on Sunday in an attempt to defend her infamous “deplorables” remark.

“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the ‘basket of deplorables.’ Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it,” Clinton said at a fundraiser in New York last September. “And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”

Clinton attempted to spin that remark — which proved to be one of the pivotal moments of the 2016 campaign — in a CBS interview that aired Sunday morning.

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But there’s a gaping hole in that defense: Clinton attacked Trump’s “deplorable” supporters on September 9 — almost a full month before the Washington Post published the “Access Hollywood” tape on October 7.

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