Calls Hillary Clinton a “bigot” who sees people of color only as votes

At an August 24, 2016 rally in Jackson, Mississippi, Trump escalated his racialized attacks on Hillary Clinton by declaring, “Hillary Clinton is a bigot,” claiming she sees African American and Latino voters “only as votes” and has left their communities in poverty and danger. CNBC, CBS, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and Newsmax document how he delivered the line while insisting he was the one who truly cared about Black voters, even as his campaign was embraced by white nationalist figures and Clinton prepared a speech describing how he had taken the alt-right mainstream. By smearing his opponent as a racist while running on his own record of birtherism, Muslim bans, and “law and order” crackdowns, he weaponized projection to delegitimize her and launder overtly racist politics.

"Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future." — August 24, 2016 campaign rally in Jackson, Mississippi, where Trump attacked Clinton’s record on race and claimed he was making an appeal to African American and Latino voters even as he courted alt-right support.