Hillary Hits Trump for Now Stamping out ‘Hateful, Mean-Spirited, Divisive Rhetoric’

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REPORTER: "There was a remark that we have a problem in this country called Muslims, and -- [ inaudible ] First of all, what do you think about that comment and secondly, how would you have responded if somebody said that in a town hall?"

CLINTON: "Well, I was appalled and as you may know, quickly put out a tweet expressing the great disappointment with that kind of rhetoric and calling on him, and anybody else who is seeking the highest office of the land, to start behaving like a president, to show respect and to stand up for the truth. He knew or he should have known that what that man was asking is not only way out of bound, but it was untrue. And he should have from the beginning repudiated that kind of rhetoric, that level of hatefulness in a questioner in an audience that he was appearing before. So I would, you know, call on him and call on all of the candidates to stop this descent into the hateful, mean-spirited divisive rhetoric that we have seen too much of."

REPORTER: "And how would you respond?"

CLINTON: "Well, if that person would not have come to my event, and if he did, I would have called him out, and that has no place in a political discussion like we are trying to have here, and not only out of place and wrong, but it is totally factually untrue, and to quit impugning the integrity of the president. I think it is prejudice and I think it is discriminatory, and I think that it comes out of the unfortunate reservoir of hateful rhetoric that we have seen too much of where people are being set against one another, and that has no place in our politics. We have serious issues that we have to deal with in the years ahead, and we should be trying to bring the country together around solution, and not trying to dive up people and set them against each other."