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Hillary has her own list of 'deplorables'

Hillary Clinton has decided to take an adjective, "deplorable", and twist it into a noun, "deplorables", thus creating a new self-serving word.

She did this so she could label and condemn a large segment of Trump supporters by relegating them into a "basket" of abhorrent categories of hateful and bigoted people. Perhaps she would be well advised to check her own "Basket of Deplorables" of supporters and personal relationships before such harsh and all encompassing denunciations.

Let's start with her husband, Bill Clinton, who had an illicit sexual liaison with a 21-year-old female Intern in the Oval Office. In my opinion that is not just deplorable, it is disgraceful and despicable, and is an arrogant act of sexual harassment. Does this immoral behavior not qualify Bill as a "sexist" and thus inclusion in Hillary's Basket.

Under Hillary's watch as Secretary of State we had an American Ambassador plus three other officials murdered in an attack in Benghazi. Evidence points to her own malfeasance as Secretary and poor judgment as being major factors in this tragedy. Does not this travesty combined with her email/server scandal qualify Hillary for inclusion in her own "Basket of Deplorables"?

This is not the first time she has used this rhetoric before an audience, but now she has found it politically expedient to back off to an extent because of the adverse backlash. She is now saying her accusations were "grossly generalistic." I disagree. I call them "grossly disdainful" of the American electorate.

So now we know Hillary also has her own "Bucket of Deplorables," but it consists largely of just she and Bill, and it now overflows with the transgressions, deceit and lies they have fostered and fed to the American people for decades.

When will the American people get it?

Steve Thompson

South Elgin

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