Hillary Clinton Didnt Think Itd Be a Big Deal
Trump laid into Clinton for her "basket of deplorables" attack on his supporters Monday, calling on her to apologize for her comments and calling her unqualified for the office. Trump's response is in some ways the most traditional political counter-attack, and a reflection of how he's been demonstrating a modicum of discipline on the trail in recent weeks. But with Hillary Clinton continuing her recuperation from pneumonia, Trump and his team are also peddling a falsehoodthat Clinton's campaign is policy-free. On Tuesday, a Trump aide told reporters of Clinton, "She has been basically running a policy-free issues-free campaign, frankly unprecedented in American history." In fact, the opposite is demonstrably true, with more than 250 pages and 100,000 words of policy proposals and fact sheets generated by her team. Trump, on the other hand, lacks a commitment to policy, whose self-contradictions and vague statements show how he believes it to be more of a communications tool than a preview of what he hopes to do in the White House. Clinton defends not telling people about her illness. Bill Clinton is a less-than-helpful surrogate. And how health reports became the standard on the campaign trail. Must Reads, How the 2016 Election Is Testing the Legal Standard on Corruption, Dueling charges of pay-for-play are now the norm, TIME's Sam Frizell explains, Donald Trump Fires Back at Hillary Clinton's Basket of Deplorables' Comment, TIME's Maya Rhodan on his defense of his supporters, Clinton didn't think illness was going to be that big a deal', Clinton defends herself from transparency critics CNN, An Unplanned Absence for Hillary Clinton at an Inopportune Time, Illness and controversy comes as she was set to reintroduce herself to voters New York Times, Trump Claims Yellen Is Holding Rates Low to Aid Obama, Fed officials have said politics won't factor into when they raise interest rates again Wall Street Journal, Sound Off, "Well, if it is then it's a mystery to me and all of her doctors. Rarely, on more than one occasion, over the last many, many years, the same sort of thing's happened to her when she got severely dehydrated, and she's worked like a demon, as you know, as Secretary of State, as a senator, and in the year since." Bill Clinton to CBS on Hillary Clinton's health scare. "I just didn't think it was going to be that big of deal." Hillary Clinton to CNN on her diagnosis, Bits and Bites, NCAA pulls championship events from North Carolina over HB2 News  Observer, Donald Trump fans have been sending me racist, hateful messages for months. Here's a sampling. Cleveland.com, Meet Donald Trump's Most Unlikely Donor Center for Public Integrity, Trump and Clinton Diverge Wildly on Questions of Science Policy TIME, Hillary Clinton Will Release More Information About Her Health TIME, The Moment Presidential-Candidate Health Reports Became a Priority TIME, Pence declines to call David Duke deplorable' Politico