{"id":979,"date":"2016-09-27T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/27\/four-fatal-flaws-for-trump-last-night\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:19:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:19:51","slug":"four-fatal-flaws-for-trump-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/four-fatal-flaws-for-trump-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Fatal Flaws for Trump Last Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>MEMO: Four Fatal Flaws for Trump Last Night<\/h5>\n<h5>From: DNC Communications Director Adam Hodge<\/h5>\n<h5>To: Interested Parties<\/h5>\n<p>Last night was a clear win for the Democrats. Secretary Clinton displayed her strength, stamina, and expertise, while Trump wilted under the pressure and ran out of gas.<\/p>\n<p>It was a clean sweep for the Democratic nominee, but there were four specific moments of many from the debate that showed that Donald Trump doesn&#39;t have the&nbsp;knowledge, values and temperament to be president.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#1: Ducking on paying federal income taxes and releasing his tax returns<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every major party nominee since 1976 has released their tax returns, except for Donald Trump. He tried to wriggle out of it with the excuse that he&rsquo;s under audit, although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2016\/09\/16\/donald-trump-tax-returns-495955.html\">experts have said that an audit does not preclude someone from releasing their tax returns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When Clinton pressed him on the fact that he hadn&rsquo;t paid any income tax at all during some years, Donald Trump said &ldquo;that makes me smart.&rdquo; But Clinton was ready &ndash; she hit back that troops, veterans, schools, and health care all suffered because of Trump&rsquo;s tax avoidance.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s tax avoidance doesn&rsquo;t mean he&rsquo;s smart &ndash; and it&rsquo;s deeply offensive to hard-working Americans who already pay their fair share.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sN-EpVO5FBY&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Here&rsquo;s that exchange<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sN-EpVO5FBY\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>#2: Rooting for the housing crisis &ndash; &ldquo;That&rsquo;s called business&rdquo;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2006, Trump <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/05\/19\/politics\/donald-trump-2006-hopes-real-estate-market-crashes\/\">said<\/a>, &ldquo;I sort of hope&rdquo; the real estate market tanks &ldquo;because then people like me would go in and buy.&rdquo; He continued: &ldquo;If there is a bubble burst, as they call it, you know you can make a lot of money.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When given the chance to explain his comments, Trump had a cold and callous response: &ldquo;That&rsquo;s called business.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s response was a slap in the face to every family that lost a job or their home in the Great Recession, and a reminder that we can&rsquo;t go back to the policies that were in place when the financial crisis struck.<\/p>\n<p>This moment underscores the fact that Donald Trump is only out for himself &ndash; further illustrated by Secretary Clinton highlighting the small business owners who had been taken advantage of by Trump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6NW5iuBopW8&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Watch that back-and-forth here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6NW5iuBopW8\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>#3: Doubling-down on racist birther attack<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump catapulted himself into national politics by pushing a racist conspiracy meant to delegitimize the first black President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Less than two weeks ago, he lied about the origin of that conspiracy theory, and falsely claimed he had put the issue to rest &ndash; when in reality, he had continued to push the conspiracy theory for years after the President produced his birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of apologizing, Trump doubled-down on the attack in front of the largest debate audience in U.S. history. It wasn&rsquo;t just offensive &ndash; it was a huge strategic mistake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xQ0CVGTT2aI&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Watch.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xQ0CVGTT2aI\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>#4: Attacking a beauty pageant contest winner for her weight &amp; ethnicity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump was clearly rattled when Clinton brought up an incident where Trump had denigrated a Latina pageant winner by calling her &ldquo;Miss Piggy,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Miss Housekeeping,&rdquo; &ndash; a reference to her Venezuelan heritage.<\/p>\n<p>They say that the worst thing in politics is to confirm voters&rsquo; worst suspicions about you, and that exchange reminded voters of trump&rsquo;s long history of sexist attacks on women and divisive attacks on Latinos.<\/p>\n<p>Unable to control himself, Trump <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/09\/trump-blame-first-debate-performance-228775\">doubled-down on the attack this morning<\/a>, telling Fox and Friends that, &ldquo;she gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BH9wkLb4zHg&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Watch the debate exchange here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BH9wkLb4zHg\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEMO: Four Fatal Flaws for Trump Last Night From: DNC Communications Director Adam Hodge To: Interested Parties Last night was a clear win for the Democrats. Secretary Clinton displayed her strength, stamina, and expertise, while Trump wilted under the pressure and ran out of gas. It was a clean sweep for the Democratic nominee, but <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Four Fatal Flaws for Trump Last Night - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/four-fatal-flaws-for-trump-last-night\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-09-27T19:22:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:19:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/four-fatal-flaws-for-trump-last-night\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/four-fatal-flaws-for-trump-last-night\/\",\"name\":\"Four Fatal Flaws for Trump Last Night - 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