{"id":14285,"date":"2016-11-02T05:21:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T05:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=14285"},"modified":"2016-11-02T05:21:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T05:21:19","slug":"hillary-clinton-moving-past-f-b-i-review-turns-focus-to-attacks-on-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/hillary-clinton-moving-past-f-b-i-review-turns-focus-to-attacks-on-donald-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton, Moving Past F.B.I. Review, Turns Focus to Attacks on Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hillary Clinton, Moving Past F.B.I. Review, Turns Focus to Attacks on Donald Trump<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Hillary Clinton, Moving Past F.B.I. Review, Turns Focus to Attacks on Donald Trump:-<\/strong> Hillary Clinton moved on Tuesday to return the nation\u2019s focus to the character and behavior of Donald J. Trump, hoping to define the presidential race again as a referendum on her opponent after spending days in open conflict with the F.B.I.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though Mrs. Clinton\u2019s aides continue to insist that the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, acted improperly by delivering an ambiguous update last week about the investigation into Mrs. Clinton\u2019s use of a private email server, her team seems to have arrived at a firm conclusion about the election\u2019s final sprint: It is better for Mrs. Clinton to be talking about Mr. Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I think about what we now know about Donald Trump,\u201d Mrs. Clinton told supporters here at an outdoor rally, \u201che sure has spent a lot of time demeaning, degrading, insulting and assaulting women.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She paused.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI would frankly rather be here talking about nearly anything else,\u201d she insisted, but \u201cwe\u2019ve got to talk about something that, frankly, is painful. Because it matters. We can\u2019t just wish it away.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Her remarks signaled the campaign\u2019s direction in the homestretch: a barrage intended to disqualify Mr. Trump with brutal efficiency and destined to overshadow any high-minded message about Mrs. Clinton\u2019s vision, as she seemed to admit.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Trump, campaigning on Tuesday in Pennsylvania before Mrs. Clinton took the stage, made clear his intent to keep the pressure high. He fused a policy speech, ostensibly on health care, with his more typical broadsides against Mrs. Clinton, briefly holding forth on his announced subject, the Affordable Care Act, but quickly meandering to other topics.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHillary Clinton wants to expand Obamacare and make it even more expensive,\u201d Mr. Trump said to cheers in King of Prussia. \u201cShe wants to put the government totally in charge of health care in America. If we don\u2019t repeal and replace Obamacare, we will destroy American health care forever. It\u2019s one of the single most important reasons why we must win on Nov. 8.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As Mr. Trump hoped to capitalize on the renewed F.B.I. attention to Mrs. Clinton\u2019s email server, Mrs. Clinton decided, for the first time in days, not to allude to the controversy at her first public appearance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her calculations seemed clear. Her campaign has often been most successful when highlighting Mr. Trump\u2019s controversial statements and behavior, baiting him with well-placed jabs or simply staying out of his way as he lashes out at broadly sympathetic targets, like a Gold Star family or a federal judge of Mexican heritage.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton played all the hits.<\/span><\/p>\n

She reminded the crowd of Mr. Trump\u2019s comments about Senator John McCain of Arizona, who he suggested last year was not a war hero because he had been captured.<\/span><\/p>\n

She recalled Mr. Trump\u2019s history of questioning President Obama\u2019s birthplace.<\/span><\/p>\n

And her introductory speaker was a familiar figure: Alicia Machado, the former Miss Universe whose weight Mr. Trump once disparaged. Mrs. Clinton\u2019s invocation of Ms. Machado at the first presidential debate ensnared Mr. Trump in a protracted feud with the pageant winner, damaging his already precarious standing with women.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was scared of him,\u201d Ms. Machado said, adding, \u201cHe thinks he can do whatever he wants and get away with it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

By again elevating Ms. Machado, and seeking a more direct confrontation with Mr. Trump, Mrs. Clinton aimed to establish the kind of direct contrast that aides believe served her well in all three presidential debates.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her sweeping rebuke of Mr. Trump marked a departure, though, from the tone she had sought to set at times in recent weeks, when Mrs. Clinton hoped \u2014 particularly as her lead in the polls seemed to expand \u2014 to end her campaign with a largely affirmative case for her candidacy.<\/span><\/p>\n

She has spoken often of wanting to give Americans \u201csomething to vote for, not just against.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. Clinton did not entirely abandon earnestness on Tuesday, urging the crowd to unite behind her \u201cpositive, optimistic, hopeful and unifying\u201d message.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI will give my heart to this mission to making the country all it should be,\u201d she said, asking voters about the example they hoped to set for their children.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the thrust of her address was clear, buttressed by the campaign\u2019s broader efforts to reach voters in the contest\u2019s last days as polls have shown the race tightening, at least somewhat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before Mrs. Clinton\u2019s event, her team released a minute-long television ad focusing on Mr. Trump\u2019s treatment of women, scheduled to be broadcast in several battleground states.<\/span><\/p>\n

Titled \u201cWhat He Believes,\u201d the ad touches on the accusations of sexual assault against Mr. Trump, his tape-recorded boasts about forcing himself on women, his penchant for wandering into beauty pageant dressing rooms and his remarks insulting the appearance of women through the years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Onstage, Mrs. Clinton repeated the charges \u2014 noting that he even stood accused of walking in on contestants for \u201cMiss Teen U.S.A.,\u201d drawing out the second word \u2014 and turned her attention to Ms. Machado.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe was Miss Universe!\u201d Mrs. Clinton shouted, later asking the crowd to again \u201cstop for a minute and reflect on the absurdity of Donald Trump finding fault with Miss Universe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe bottom line is,\u201d Mrs. Clinton continued, \u201che thinks belittling women makes him a bigger man.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A supporter yelled back: \u201cLock him up!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For Mrs. Clinton\u2019s campaign, it seemed a welcome change after a weekend spent on the defensive, parrying questions about an F.B.I. review of the emails of a top aide, Huma Abedin.<\/span><\/p>\n

The heightened attacks on Mr. Trump began <\/span>Monday, when Mrs. Clinton said her opponent could not be trusted with a nuclear arsenal. Her aides also introduced a television ad modeled on Lyndon B. Johnson\u2019s famous \u201cDaisy\u201d commercial, which was directed at Barry Goldwater in 1964 to emphasize the dangers of placing nuclear weapons in unsteady hands.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though Clinton advisers are eager to spark a furious response from Mr. Trump, as they succeeded in doing during and after the debates, he largely declined to take the bait, at least initially, in his first appearance on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, he turned his gaze to the president\u2019s health care law, saying its repeal should be a top priority for voters casting ballots over the next week.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said that if elected, he would call a special session of Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act and asserted that millennials would be \u201ctotally crushed by these massive health care costs before they even get started on their journey through life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And at <\/span>a second event on Tuesday night, in Eau Claire, Wis., Mr. Trump offered a \u201cpublic service announcement\u201d for any Democrats with \u201ca bad case of buyer\u2019s remorse\u201d after voting early for Mrs. Clinton.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is still time to change their minds, he said, and in this case, he was right: A handful of early-voting states, including Wisconsin, allow voters to adjust their ballots after the fact.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/02\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-speech-obamacare.html<\/span><\/p>\n

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