WATCH: Donald Trump’s ‘Jokes’ at the Al Smith Dinner Were So Nasty He Just Got Booed ‘Bigly’
‘Here She Is Tonight, in Public, Pretending Not to Hate Catholics’
Donald Trump delivered a knock-out blow, to himself, at Thursday night’s Al Smith dinner. The Manhattan real estate billionaire clearly ignored the decades-long tradition of being self-depricating and roasting your opponent in good humor, not in a naked political attack straight from your stump speech.
“Here she is tonight, in public, pretending not to hate Catholics,” Trump said of Hillary Clinton, not as a joke but as an attack. He got booed.
Trump on Clinton: “Here she is tonight, in public, pretending not to hate Catholics.” https://t.co/I5OwmWE4Gp https://t.co/8iBun1bnDH
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) October 21, 2016
Trump also attacked Clinton “joking” about hacked email and WikiLeaks – and rightly got booed for it:
Boos erupt at charity dinner as Trump jokes about hacked Clinton emails released by WikiLeaks https://t.co/UbLat9qwoj
— CNN (@CNN) October 21, 2016
And here’s Trump attacking Clinton for being a public servant for three decades. And getting booed for it:
Here’s video of Trump getting booed down during his set at the Al Smith Dinner pic.twitter.com/025zgItcfy
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) October 21, 2016
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