
Hillary Clinton defends 'deplorables' comment: 'Too kind a word' for some Trump supporters
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Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post about how to deal with “radicalized individuals."
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Though Clinton initially apologized for her comment, now she believes it offered "an important truth" about Trump supporters.
"In 2016, I famously described half of Trump’s supporters as ‘the basket of deplorables.’ I was talking about the people who are drawn to his racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia — you name it. The people for whom his bigotry is a feature, not a bug. It was an unfortunate choice of words and bad politics, but it also got at an important truth. Just look at everything that has happened in the years since, from Charlottesville to Jan. 6," Clinton wrote.