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Clinton calls on media to step up scrutiny of Trump
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San
Francisco (CNN) Hillary Clinton has a fresh target as she steps up her
attacks on Donald Trump: the media. Clinton tweaked the media's coverage
of Trump at her fundraiser in San Francisco on Friday night, according
to multiple attendees.
Clinton calls on media to step up scrutiny of Trump
Story highlights
- Clinton tweaked the media's coverage of Trump at her fundraiser in San Francisco on Friday night
- Clinton is increasingly criticizing the media in her stump speeches
San Francisco (CNN)Hillary Clinton has a fresh target as she steps up her attacks on Donald Trump: the media.
Clinton
tweaked the media's coverage of Trump at her fundraiser in San
Francisco on Friday night, according to multiple attendees. Clinton, the
donors said, told the group that she wished "he would be asked the
follow-up questions" about his plans and proposals, arguing that he gets
away with empty plans and promises. Clinton also told the group that
she has been asked "millions of questions over the years."
The donors said the comments played well in the 200-person room at The Masonic in downtown San Francisco.
Clinton
has been a more subtle media critic for much of the 2016 campaign,
suggesting that she is subject to more scrutiny than anyone else and
saying that her political press corps is only interested in headlines.
Yet Clinton has also subjected the media to treatment unlike most presidential campaigns: Her campaign used a moving ropeline to keep the press at bay in 2015 and once went 88 days without taking questions from reporters who travel with her.
Clinton
is increasingly criticizing the media in her stump speeches. The
candidate made the same case at an open event in Oakland earlier on
Friday.
"Donald Trump says he is
going to repeal it," Clinton said of Obamacare. "Somebody should ask,
'What are you going to replace it with?' and if the answer is,
'Something great,' there should be at least a follow-up question, don't
you think? Because frankly, they can't tell you what they will replace
it with because you wouldn't like what you hear."
Clinton
also told MSNBC in an interview Tuesday that Trump "has given no
indication that he understands the gravity of the responsibilities that
go with being commander-in-chief" and that, at some point, he is "going
to have to be held to the standard we hold anybody running for president
and commander-in-chief."
The critique is similar to what President Barack Obama has said he thinks about the 2016 race.
"He has a long record that needs to be examined," Obama said at a news conference at the White House Friday. "I think it's important for us to take seriously the statements he's made in the past."
Obama also took a poke at the media for its coverage of Trump while speaking at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last week.
"I
don't want to spend too much time on The Donald. Following your lead, I
want to show some restraint," Obama said, to laughter. "Because I think
we can all agree that from the start, he's gotten the appropriate
amount of coverage, befitting the seriousness of his candidacy."
Clinton
has been upping her critique of Trump since he all but locked up the
nomination on Tuesday, using almost all of her stump speech to contrast
herself with the businessman.
Clinton
on Friday called Trump the Republicans' "presumptuous nominee" and said
"he doesn't think much of equal pay for women because of course he
doesn't think much of women, it turns out."
Trump, likewise, has started to use former President Bill Clinton's sexual impropriety against the 2016 candidate.
Trump on Friday accused Hillary Clinton of being "an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler" of her husband's alleged affairs and accused her of destroying the lives of his accusers.
"She's
been the total enabler. She would go after these women and destroy
their lives," Trump said, adding, "She was an unbelievably nasty, mean
enabler, and what she did to a lot of those women is disgraceful."
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