Hillary Clinton says there's no place for Donald Trump's 'prejudice and paranoia'


After being asked during the Univision Democratic debate if Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is a racist, Hillary Clinton called his remarks on Mexicans and women "un-American."
"I was the first one to call him out when he called Mexicans rapists, engaging in rhetoric I found deeply offensive," she said. "I said basta, and I am pleased that others are also joining in making clear that his rhetoric, his demagoguery, his trafficking in prejudice and paranoia, has no place in our political system, especially from someone running for president who couldn't decide whether to disavow the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke." Clinton said people can "draw their own conclusions" about Trump, adding, "you don't make America great by getting rid of everything that made America great."
Trump's comments are "un-American," she continued, and what he has "promoted is not at all in keeping with American values. I'm going to take every opportunity to criticize him, to raise those issues. I'm not going to engage in the kind of language that he uses." Bernie Sanders said the American people are "never" going to elect a president who "insults Mexicans, who insults Muslims, who insults women, who insults African Americans, and let us not forget that several years ago Trump was in the middle of the so-called birther movement, trying to delegitimize the president of the United States of America." Sanders, whose father was born in Poland, said he knows a "little bit about the immigrant experience," and "nobody has ever asked me for my birth certificate. Maybe it has something to do with the color of my skin."
Subscribe to The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com
Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
-
AI is creating a luxury housing renaissance in San Francisco
Under the Radar Luxury homes in the city can range from $7 million to above $20 million
-
How carbon credits could help and hurt the climate
The explainer The credits could be allowing polluters to continue polluting
-
5 tips for building a healthy skincare routine for tweens and teens
The Week Recommends Social media is pushing overly elaborate routines for young skin
-
The last words and final moments of 40 presidents
The Explainer Some are eloquent quotes worthy of the holders of the highest office in the nation, and others... aren't
-
Senate advances GOP bill that costs more, cuts more
Speed Read The bill would make giant cuts to Medicaid and food stamps, leaving 11.8 million fewer people with health coverage
-
Canadian man dies in ICE custody
Speed Read A Canadian citizen with permanent US residency died at a federal detention center in Miami
-
GOP races to revise megabill after Senate rulings
Speed Read A Senate parliamentarian ruled that several changes to Medicaid included in Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" were not permissible
-
Supreme Court lets states ax Planned Parenthood funds
Speed Read The court ruled that Planned Parenthood cannot sue South Carolina over the state's effort to deny it funding
-
Trump plans Iran talks, insists nuke threat gone
Speed Read 'The war is done' and 'we destroyed the nuclear,' said President Trump
-
Trump embraces NATO after budget vow, charm offensive
Speed Read The president reversed course on his longstanding skepticism of the trans-Atlantic military alliance
-
Trump judge pick told DOJ to defy courts, lawyer says
Speed Read Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official nominated by Trump for a lifetime seat, stands accused of encouraging government lawyers to mislead the courts and defy judicial orders