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Politics of name-calling, little-substance continues: ‘Crooked Hillary’ -Donald Trump. ‘I am not calling Clinton ‘crooked Hillary’ because the entire system is corrupt – not just her’ – Bernie Sanders

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h1><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;4a0a0a&semi;">&&num;8216&semi;That&&num;8217&semi;s an ugly statement&&num;8217&semi;&colon; Bernie Sanders refuses to join Trump in calling Clinton &&num;8216&semi;crooked Hillary&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<h3><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;4a0a0a&semi;">Donald Trump gave Hillary Clinton a new nickname on Saturday while he was campaigning in Watertown&comma; New York<&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8216&semi;Donald Trump is very brilliant by coming up with statements that you guys respond to&comma;&&num;8217&semi; &&num;8216&semi;That&&num;8217&semi;s an ugly statement&&num;8217&semi; -Sanders told the Today show<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8216&semi;I really could care less&comma;&&num;8217&semi; criticizing Trump &&num;8216&semi;for his rhetoric against Muslims&comma; women and the disabled&&num;8217&semi; -Hillary Clinton&comma;on ABC&&num;8217&semi;s This Week<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bernie Sanders refused to join in on Donald Trump&&num;8217&semi;s name calling this morning and label Hillary Clinton &&num;8216&semi;Crooked Hillary&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Donald Trump is very brilliant by coming up with statements that you guys respond to&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Sanders told the Today show&period; &&num;8216&semi;That&&num;8217&semi;s an ugly statement&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;And Sanders denied that his own attacks on Clinton for yucking it up with Wall Street to the tune of &dollar;225&comma;000 an appearance were at all similar to Trump&&num;8217&semi;s claim that the former cabinet member&&num;8217&semi;s behavior was unethical&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;In that case the entire United States government is crooked&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the Democratic presidential contender said&period; &&num;8216&semi;We have a corrupt system&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Bernie Sanders refused to join in on Donald Trump&&num;8217&semi;s name calling this morning and label Hillary Clinton &&num;8216&semi;Crooked Hillary&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Bernie Sanders refused to join in on Donald Trump&&num;8217&semi;s name calling this morning and label Hillary Clinton &&num;8216&semi;Crooked Hillary&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-11793" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;04&sol;334b40de00000578-3545825-image-a-16&lowbar;1460985927343&period;jpg" alt&equals;"334b40de00000578-3545825-image-a-16&lowbar;1460985927343" width&equals;"634" height&equals;"397" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trump&comma; the Republican frontrunner&comma; slapped Clinton&comma; the Democratic frontrunner&comma; with the new nickname during a campaign rally in Watertown&comma; New York&comma; on Saturday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;His latest concoction after the success of &&num;8216&semi;Lyin&&num;8217&semi; Ted&&num;8217&semi; Cruz&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Little Marco&&num;8217&semi; Rubio and &&num;8216&semi;low energy&&num;8217&semi; Jeb Bush&comma; Trump implied that Clinton was &&num;8216&semi;crooked&&num;8217&semi; because she took money from groups she&&num;8217&semi;s now promising to regulate&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;So I&&num;8217&semi;m self funding&period; All of this is mine&period; When I fly in&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s on my dime&comma; right&quest; It&&num;8217&semi;s on mine&period; And what does that mean&quest;&&num;8217&semi; Trump told his crowd&period; &&num;8216&semi;that means I&&num;8217&semi;m not controlled by the special interests&comma; by the lobbyists&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;They can control crooked Hillary and they can control Lyin&&num;8217&semi; Ted Cruz&comma; right&quest;&&num;8217&semi; Trump said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Clinton was asked about it yesterday and wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t bite&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;He can say whatever he wants to say about me&comma; I really could care less&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the former secretary of state told George Stephanopoulos on ABC&&num;8217&semi;s This Week&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;I don&&num;8217&semi;t respond to Donald Trump and his string of insults about me&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she said&period; &&num;8216&semi;I can take care of myself&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She added&comma; &&num;8216&semi;I look forward to running against him if he turns out to be the Republican nominee if I am the Democratic nominee&period;&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Clinton said she&&num;8217&semi;s more troubled by &&num;8216&semi;how he goes after everybody else&&num;8217&semi;&comma; too&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;He goes after women&period; He goes after Muslims&period; He goes after immigrants&period; He goes afterpeople with disabilities&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she noted&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;He is hurting our unity at home&&num;8230&semi;He is undermining the values that we stand for in New York and across America&period; And he&&num;8217&semi;s hurting us around the world&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Hillary Clinton said she &&num;8216&semi;really could care less&comma;&&num;8217&semi; when George Stephanopoulos informed her that Donald Trump had nicknamed her &&num;8216&semi;crooked Hillary&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-11795" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;04&sol;3346b36500000578-3544601-image-a-1&lowbar;1460911868589&period;jpg" alt&equals;"3346b36500000578-3544601-image-a-1&lowbar;1460911868589" width&equals;"634" height&equals;"357" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hillary Clinton said she &&num;8216&semi;really could care less&comma;&&num;8217&semi; when George Stephanopoulos informed her that Donald Trump had nicknamed her &&num;8216&semi;crooked Hillary&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>All the candidates are competing for votes in New York in advance of the state&&num;8217&semi;s Tuesday primaries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The latest polling has Clinton 10 points ahead&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-9303" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;04&sol;331db14300000578-3539704-image-a-11&lowbar;1460636514272&period;jpg" alt&equals;"331db14300000578-3539704-image-a-11&lowbar;1460636514272" width&equals;"624" height&equals;"449" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a CBS&sol;YouGov poll released Sunday Clinton is at 53 percent to Sen&period; Bernie Sanders&&num;8217&semi; 43 percent in the state she was twice elected by to serve in the U&period;S&period; Senate&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Trump&comma; a creature of the Manhattan real estate world&comma; was up 33 points in the same poll against rivals Cruz and Ohio Gov&period; John Kasich&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Trump receives 54 percent support from Republicans&comma; versus 21 percent for Cruz and 19 percent for Kasich&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;During her interview with Stephanopoulos&comma; Clinton again said she would only release her Wall Street speech transcripts only if other candidates did too&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Sanders has repeatedly hit his rival on delivering these speeches – and for taking money from Wall Street – suggesting that she&&num;8217&semi;s beholden to these interests&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In turn&comma; she&&num;8217&semi;s called his assumption an &&num;8216&semi;artful smear&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Sanders is barred from delivering paid speeches as a member of the U&period;S&period; Senate&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Stephanopoulos asked Clinton if releasing the speeches would reveal her praising Wall Street&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;No&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t have any concerns like that&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she replied&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m just concerned about a constantly changing set of standards for everybody else but me&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;You know&comma; we have certain expectations when you run for president&comma; one of which is release all of your tax returns&comma; ever since you&&num;8217&semi;ve been in public life&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Clinton acknowledged that 33 years of her taxes are in the public domain&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Sanders just released his first year&&num;8217&semi;s worth of tax returns this weekend&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Now&comma; all of a sudden&comma; there is a new standard&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Clinton said of the calls to release the speeches&period; &&num;8216&semi;And I&&num;8217&semi;ve said when it applies to everybody&comma; you bet I will meet that standard as well&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Stephanopoulos reminded Clinton that Sen&period; Kirsten Gillibrand&comma; a Clinton supporter&comma; had said she would release the speeches &&num;8216&semi;at the appropriate time&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Well&comma; in accordance with the standard that I&&num;8217&semi;ve set&comma; I absolutely will do&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Clinton said&comma; meaning that all the candidates&comma; from both parties&comma; would have to release the transcripts of any paid speeches they&&num;8217&semi;ve given&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;I absolutely will do&comma; i will do that&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she said&period; &&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;ve said that repeatedly&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Clinton was also asked about a piece of legislation that would pit her either against President Obama or New York Sen&period; Chuck Schumer&comma; who will become the Democratic leader in the Senate next year after Sen&period; Harry Reid retires&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The bill would allow families of 9&sol;11 victims to sue foreign sponsors of terror in federal court&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Schumer supports it&comma; while Obama opposes it&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Clinton pleaded ignorance&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;I don&&num;8217&semi;t really know about that&comma; George&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;d have to look into it&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Clinton answered&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Obviously&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ve got to make anyone who participates in or supports terrorism pay a price&comma; and we also have to be aware of any consequences that might affect Americans&comma; either military or civilian or our nation&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Stephanopoulos seemed surprised by her answer&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;You don&&num;8217&semi;t know about this issue&quest; It&&num;8217&semi;s been around for several years&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Well I know there&&num;8217&semi;s been an issue about it for quite some time&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know about the specific legislation that you&&num;8217&semi;re referring to&period; But obviously&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;ll look into it&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she replied&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;When Stephanopoulos again followed up&comma; asking the former secretary of state if she supported or opposed the legislation&comma; she said she didn&&num;8217&semi;t know&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;I can&&num;8217&semi;t&comma; I haven&&num;8217&semi;t studied it&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Unlike some people – I do try to learn what&&num;8217&semi;s at the core of any question before I offer an opinion&comma; because you know it&&num;8217&semi;s not enough to say what&&num;8217&semi;s wrong&comma; I think you&&num;8217&semi;ve got a responsibility to say how you&&num;8217&semi;re going to fix it&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she said&comma; knocking both the unpreparedness of Donald Trump and the flowery language of Bernie Sanders&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h5><strong><em>Lets us know what you think of this article&period; 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