White House won’t touch Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ comment

Published September 12, 2016 6:37pm ET



President Obama doesn’t feel obligated to defend Hillary Clinton for saying that half of Donald Trump’s supporters are a “basket of deplorables,” and won’t help her deal with the fallout from that comment when he campaigns for Clinton in Philadelphia Tuesday.

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