Hillary Clinton censures Donald Trump for ‘shameful’ comments

“Donald Trump, finally a candidate whose hair gets more attention than mine,” Clinton remarked at a Democratic reception on Sunday in Little Rock, Arkansas.
 
“But there’s nothing funny about the hate he is spewing at immigrants and families — and now the insults he has directed at a genuine war hero, Sen. John McCain,” she added.
 
“It’s shameful, and so is the fact that it took so long for his fellow Republican candidates to start standing up to him,” Clinton continued. “The sad truth is if you look at many of their policies, it can be hard to tell the difference.”
 
Billionaire businessman and reality television star Trump has sparked controversy by denouncing the military record of Senator McCain, who was captured during America’s war against Vietnam.
 
McCain was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half year, from October 1967 to March 1973.
 
Speaking at a conservative forum on Saturday in Iowa, Trump said the 2008 Republican Party presidential nominee was only considered a hero “because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."
 
Trump has also come under severe criticism for his inflammatory comments about Mexican immigrants in the US, calling them drug dealers and “rapists.”
 
During his presidential campaign announcement on June 16, Trump emphasized the need to curtail immigration from the southern border and slammed Mexican immigrants for "bringing crime" to the US.
 
His brash rhetoric has helped him at the polls. The latest Fox News poll out Thursday showed Trump as the GOP front-runner.
 
Trump leads the field of 16 Republican candidates with 18 percent of likely Republican primary voters saying they would vote for him, up from 11 percent who supported him in a June survey.
 
Last week, in a message posted on his Facebook page, Trump accused Clinton of “knowingly putting out lies” about his stance on immigration.
 
“Hillary should spend more time producing her illegally hidden emails and less time trying to obfuscate a statement by me that is totally clear and obviously very much accepted by the public as true,” he wrote.
 
Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has come under intense criticism after the New York Times published a report early in March that suggested she violated federal regulations by using a private email account from a server at her New York home while in government.
 
She was the secretary of state during President Barack Obama’s first term and his primary opponent before that in the 2008 presidential election. She is also the wife of former US President Bill Clinton who was in office from 1993 to 2001.