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Hillary for American Campaign Manager Robby Mook On Trump’s Campaign Restructure: Doubling Down On “Small, Nasty and Divisive Instincts”


NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2016.  Today, Robby Mook, campaign manager of Hillary for America, held a conference call to discuss Donald Trump’s decision to double down on his divisive campaign with new additions to his campaign’s leadership.

“After several failed attempts to pivot into a more serious campaign, Donald Trump has decided to double down on his most small, nasty and divisive instincts,” said Robby Mook on the call. “This latest shake-up turns the campaign over to someone best known for running a so-called news site that peddles divisive, at times racist, anti-Muslim, and anti-semitic conspiracy theories. What’s become clear from this is that no matter how much the Republican party wants to clean Donald Trump up, get him on a teleprompter and get him on message, he has officially won the fight to let Trump be Trump. He keeps telling us who he is, it’s time that we believe him.”

Here are a few things we know about Bannon and Breitbart News, the organization he has run since 2012:

  • The Southern Poverty Law Center noted that Breitbart, under Bannon’s leadership, had, “undergone a noticeable shift toward embracing ideas on the extremist fringe of the conservative right. Racist ideas. Race-baiting ideas. Anti-Muslim and anti-Immigrant ideas – all key tenets making up an emerging racist ideology known as the ‘Alt-Right.’”
  • Like his candidate Trump, who refused to apologize to Gold Star father Khizr Khan, Bannon said he would keep “relentlessly” going after Khan.
  • Breitbart.com has repeatedly used anti-LGBT slurs in their coverage.
  • And again, like Trump, Breitbart.com and Steve Bannon traffic in all sorts of deranged conspiracy theories, from touting that President Obama was not born in America to claiming that the Obama administration was “importing more hating Muslims.”

Mook’s remarks on the new additions to Trump’s campaign leadership are transcribed below:

ROBBY MOOK:

“Thank you so much Christina and thanks to everybody for joining. We wanted to talk this morning about the recent shake-up in the Trump campaign. After several failed attempts to pivot to a more serious and presidential mode, Donald Trump has decided to double down on his most small, nasty, and divisive instincts. This latest shake-up turns his campaign over to someone who’s best known for running a so-called news site that peddles divisive, at times racist, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

And what’s become clear from this is that no matter how much the establishment wants to clean Donald Trump up, get him on a teleprompter and get him on message, he has officially won the fight to let Trump be Trump. And he keeps telling us who he is, it’s time that we believe him. Here are a few things that we know about Bannon and the organization that he’s been running over the last few years.

The Southern Poverty Law Center noted that Breitbart News under Bannon’s leadership had, “Undergone a noticeable shift towards embracing ideas on the extremist fringe of the conservative right, racist ideas, race-baiting ideas, anti-Muslim, and anti-immigrant ideas, all key tenants making up an emerging racist ideology known as the ‘alt-right.'” The Breitbart organization has been known to defend white supremacists.

Like Trump who has refused to apologize to Gold Star father Khizr Khan, Bennan himself has said, “relentlessly going after Khan.” Breitbart has compared the work of Planned Parenthood to the Holocaust. They’ve also repeatedly used anti-LGBT slurs in their coverage. And finally, like Trump himself, Breitbart and Bannon have frequently trafficked in all sorts of deranged conspiracy theories from touting that President Obama was not born in America to claiming that the Obama Administration was “importing more hating Muslims.”

So, it’s unfortunately not surprising to see this happen, coming from Trump after weeks of stories about his need to pivot to a more serious campaign. It’s clear that his divisive, erratic, and dangerous rhetoric simply represents who he really is. And he has decided to double down on his most divisive, hateful, erratic statement and behavior. And we should expect in the coming weeks to see more of what, at the end of the day, really scares voters about Donald Trump: the hateful rhetoric, erratic judgment, and wild accusations and conspiracy theories, and no plans whatsoever on how to create jobs or how to make a positive difference in people’s lives.”

Source: http://www.hillaryclinton.com

 

 


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