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Donald Trump Sends Hillary Clinton a ‘Get Well’ Message for Her Pneumonia Donald Trump Demands Hillary Clinton Apologize for ‘Deplorables’ Remark
(about 7 hours later)
Donald J. Trump tried to strike a magnanimous tone about the illness that overtook Hillary Clinton this weekend, saying on Monday that he hopes his rival for the presidency recovers soon from a bout of pneumonia and promising to release his own detailed health report this week. BALTIMORE — Donald J. Trump demanded Monday that Hillary Clinton apologize for calling some of his supporters a “basket of deplorables” during a fund-raiser, accusing her in an indignant speech here of bullying and slandering voters.
“I just hope she gets well and gets back on the trail and we’ll be seeing her at the debate,” Mr. Trump said on Fox News. “I was thus deeply shocked and alarmed this Friday to hear my opponent attack, slander, smear, demean these wonderful, amazing people who are supporting our campaign by the millions,” Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, said in a speech to the National Guard Association of the United States.
The positive wishes were a departure for Mr. Trump, who for weeks has criticized Mrs. Clinton for lacking the “stamina” to be commander in chief and for keeping a light campaign schedule. In a separate interview with CNBC, Mr. Trump acknowledged that campaigning was grueling work but raised questions about how transparent the Clinton campaign had been about her health. The candidate tried to paint Mrs. Clinton’s comments as “disqualifying” for a presidential candidate and “the most explicit attack on the American voter,” claiming the Democratic nominee was trying to intimidate voters not to support his campaign.
“They say pneumonia — on Friday but she was coughing very, very badly, a week ago and even before that if you remember,” Mr. Trump said. “It’s very interesting to see what’s going on.” As Mr. Trump has seen his standing rise in a few polls while his opponent stumbles, his campaign is trying to seize on the comments to alter the direction of a general election campaign in which he has frequently been on the defensive. The speech was coupled with a new ad released by the Trump campaign titled “Deplorables,” which will run in four battleground states and on national cable to start.
The Republican nominee will be keeping the health concerns in the spotlight by releasing the results from his own medical examination this week. So far, Mr. Trump has only released an unorthodox note from his doctor that said he would be the healthiest president ever to serve. During a 20-minute address at the association’s annual conference, Mr. Trump spent more than half of his time focused on Mrs. Clinton’s comments, and was greeted with a polite reception, but he rarely drew any extended applause for his broadsides against his opponent.
“I saw what was going on with her and I said ‘you know I’m going to do something,’” Mr. Trump said on CNBC, in which he revealed that he had a physical last week. “I’ll be announcing, sometime during the week I’ll be handing out a paper with some very large numbers, hopefully very good statistics.” The candidate also offered an impassioned defense of his supporters and their backing of causes he has been campaigning on.
He added, “I feel very confident, otherwise I probably wouldn’t be telling you I did this.” “People who want their immigration laws enforced,” Mr. Trump said, “are not racists.”
Mr. Trump continued to hit Mrs. Clinton for her comments on Friday in which she labeled many of his supporters “deplorables” at a fund-raiser in New York. He described her comments on Monday on Fox News as “the biggest mistake of the political season.” “They are patriotic Americans of all backgrounds who want their jobs and families protected,” he added. “People who warn about radical Islamic terrorism are not Islamaphobes. They’re not. They are decent American citizens who want to uphold our tolerant values and keep our country safe.”
Despite his confidence that the race’s momentum is swinging in his favor, Mr. Trump also expressed concern that the system was being rigged against him. In the CNBC interview he said that the presidential debates should have no moderators because they are unlikely to treat him fairly. And he suggested that President Obama was compelling the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates low so that the economy remains artificially strong under his watch. In her remarks at the private fund-raiser Friday night, Mrs. Clinton said, “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.”
“She’s obviously political and she’s doing what Obama wants her to do,” Mr. Trump said of Janet L. Yellen, chairwoman of the Federal Reserve. After word of Mrs. Clinton’s comments became public, she expressed regret for them on Saturday.
Mr. Trump is scheduled to speak at the National Guard Association of the United States conference in Baltimore on Monday afternoon and hold a campaign rally in North Carolina in the evening. “Last night I was ‘grossly generalistic,’ and that’s never a good idea,” Mrs. Clinton said. “I regret saying ‘half’ — that was wrong.”
But the apology was not enough for Mr. Trump, who demanded to the thousands in the room that Mrs. Clinton retract her comments in full and apologize.
“If Hillary Clinton will not retract her comments in full, I don’t see how she can credibly campaign any further,” Mr. Trump told the crowd. “Let’s be clear: These were not offhand comments from Hillary Clinton. These weren’t strained remarks, not at all. They were given also in an interview, and probably a number of interviews.”
Mr. Trump himself has often been accused of offending racial minorities, Muslims and women during the presidential campaign, but despite the ensuing outcries, he has resisted apologizing for such remarks.
Mr. Trump’s new ad, just the third of his presidential campaign, reinforced the speech’s message, as it showed thousands of supporters cheering at Trump rallies while the audio of Mrs. Clinton’s remarks was played.
The ad is rotating into the Trump campaign’s existing buys on broadcast and cable in Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida.