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HILARY CLINTON BLASTS ‘BIGOT’ TRUMP FOR DIVIDING COUNTRY

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Hillary Clinton had a message for Donald Trump on Thursday evening as she accepted the Democratic party’s nomination for president: Game on. She mocked his campaign slogan. She blasted his business practices. She even tried to taunt him into attacking her on Twitter - a strategy that appeared to work, with Trump sending out a series of tweets assailing her soon after. He wants to be commander in chief but ‘Donald Trump can’t even handle the rough and tumble of a presidenti­al campaign. He loses his cool at the slightest provocatio­n,’ she said. ‘A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons,’ she said as the audience cheered loudly.

Trump has ‘taken the Republican Party a long way,’ she said, ‘from “Morning in America” to “Midnight in America.”’ ‘He

A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons

wants us to fear the future and fear each other,’ she said, declaring that the country is at a ‘moment of reckoning.

The former first lady who lost out on the Democratic nomination eight years ago had to deliver a speech that would redefine her 20-year political career and reserve her place in history as the first US woman president.

She held little back, touching on even the most embarrassi­ng and personal aspects of her public profile, including the ‘hard times’ that tested she and her husband, ex-president Bill Clinton, who infamously cheated on her with an intern Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office. PHILADELPH­IA, (Daily Mail,

US), 29 July 2016 -

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