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TRUMP: Clinton's 'deplorables' comment the 'worst mistake of the political season'

Sep 11, 2016, 02:14 IST

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at the Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., September 8, 2016.Reuters/Mike Segar

Donald Trump released a statement Saturday lambasting Hillary Clinton for labeling half of his supporters a "basket of deplorables," and called her remarks the "worst mistake of the political season."

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Trump said Clinton should be ashamed of herself, and suggested she had not fully owned up to her remarks, which he called a "grotesque attack on American voters."

"For the first time in a long while, her true feelings came out, showing bigotry and hatred for millions of Americans," Trump said in his statement. "How can she be President of our country when she has such contempt and disdain for so many great Americans?"

Clinton had made the comments Friday evening at a campaign event in New York, which she partially walked back on Saturday.

Clinton said she regretted her "grossly generalistic" comments, but maintained it was "deplorable" that Trump's campaign had "given a national platform to hateful views and voices."

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Read the full statement from the Trump campaign below:

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