# Did HRC Back Up Her Charges (Regarding Trump)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 24, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304 "2015-12-24T23:23:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/101 "2016-01-02T15:38:55Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Could it be because Harry Reid never used racist bullshit and Trump has repeatedly? Or is it because Harry Reid is insignificant now and hasn’t said anything they’d use in this new age of twideo or whatever the hell those damn kids are doing these days. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/102 "2016-01-02T15:45:46Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > You don’t remember the Bush administration very successfully saying that Democrats were providing comfort to Al Qaeda with their rhetoric? Staying in Iraq was hurting America far, far more than Al Qaeda ever could, so even if saying this somehow helped Al Qaeda, it helped America even more by turning opinion to the point that we had to get out. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/103 "2016-01-02T17:14:39Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > … or whatever the hell those damn kids are doing these days. Recreational drugs, video games, cable TV and sex. Rotten little shits… ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/104 "2016-01-02T17:14:53Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > If Hillary had only said “If I were an ISIS recruiter, I would show videos of Trump…” Then we’d hear claims that she said she was an ISIS recruiter. Some people hear what they want to hear and disregard the rest. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/105 "2016-01-02T17:40:17Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Then we’d hear claims that she said she was an ISIS recruiter. Some people hear what they want to hear and disregard the rest. I had no idea you were a boxer. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/106 "2016-01-02T17:45:46Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I had no idea you were a boxer. That’s a LIE LA LIE! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/107 "2016-01-02T17:58:44Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > That’s a LIE LA LIE! _ouch_ Still, when it comes to politics, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/108 "2016-01-02T18:26:21Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > _ouch_ > > Still, when it comes to politics, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. Stop it, or I’ll feed you to the horses on seventh avenue. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/109 "2016-01-02T19:19:45Z")
Trump must be disappointed that it’s only an al-Qaeda _affiliate_ using him for propaganda - he’s accustomed to only being vilified by the biggest, most glamorous, absolutely terrific terrorist cells. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/110 "2016-01-02T20:16:29Z")
**Wingnuts, two days ago:** Hillary is a LIAR! It’ll never happen!!! LIAR! **Wingnuts, today:** Oh, well…it doesn’t matter. Nobody ever gets recruited by those videos anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/111 "2016-01-02T20:39:37Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > **Wingnuts, two days ago:** Hillary is a LIAR! It’ll never happen!!! LIAR! > > **Wingnuts, today:** Oh, well…it doesn’t matter. Nobody ever gets recruited by those videos anyway. **Wingnuts, two days ago:** All Muslims are the same! **Wingnuts, today:** That’s not _ISIS_, though! ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/112 "2016-01-02T21:00:41Z")
Also “Pedants, today”. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/113 "2016-01-02T21:58:43Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Stop it, or I’ll feed you to the horses on seventh avenue. Wait, did I stumble on a misheard lyrics thread, or do horses often come on to you on the streets of New York, and were there times you were so lonesome you took some comfort there? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/114 "2016-01-02T22:47:29Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Wait, did I stumble on a misheard lyrics thread, or do horses often come on to you on the streets of New York, and were there times you were so lonesome you took some comfort there? Could be whorses. [Link to Vaughn Bode _Junkwaffel_ image](http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Vaughn-Bode-Male-Landscape.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/115 "2016-01-02T23:32:45Z")
Vaughn Bode. Aubrey Beardsley with a warm, depraved chuckle. Screw Hogwarts, Cheech Wizard rules! ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/116 "2016-01-03T03:10:05Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Doesn’t matter what he said. Nothing one man says is going to add a single ISIS recruit. Europe has had anti-Islam demagogues for years. Trump adds nothing new. He is the only prominent American major-party figure to call for entirely barring Muslims from the country, is he not? This was Trumpeted around the world; plenty of people certainly saw it as something very new and striking. ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/117 "2016-01-03T03:50:27Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Plenty of hate for Americans going around but we don’t have Americans shooting up Paris, or Mecca, or Pyongyang. Shot up Baghdad pretty good, though. ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/118 "2016-01-03T03:57:37Z")
It has always seemed to me that Trump’s rhetoric would be far more useful in radicalizing Muslims already in the United States, not in Syria or wherever. When you’ve got this blowhard on TV every night going on about evil Muslims followed by reports that he is leading in the polls, that might make Muslims think that there is a large segment of the US population who wants to kill them. I’m more worried about Trump’s helping to recruit terrorists already here, not overseas. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/119 "2016-01-03T18:57:32Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Doesn’t matter what he said. Nothing one man says is going to add a single ISIS recruit. Europe has had anti-Islam demagogues for years. Trump adds nothing new. This is just hilarious. Thanks! You’ve moved the goalposts around so much, I’m surprise you even know where they are any more. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hrc-back-up-her-charges-regarding-trump/741304/120 "2016-01-03T19:04:41Z")
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