“I think there is dog whistles in just about everything he says," Jennifer Palmieri said of Donald Trump. Clinton spokeswoman: Trump campaign ‘overtaken by Breitbart and Infowars’

SEATTLE — Hillary Clinton’s communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, denounced Donald Trump’s increasingly heated rhetoric about conspiracies against the American people as “dangerous and cynical” as Clinton wrapped up a West Coast fundraising swing Friday.

“It would be laughable that the Republican nominee for president has allowed his campaign to be overtaken by Breitbart and Infowars,” Palmieri said aboard Clinton’s plane en route to a Seattle fundraiser. “Except it is a very dangerous and cynical thing to do to try to convince voters of these lies. But it does appear that that is the path that Trump has decided to take in these final weeks — that he is offering destruction in the form of attacks and conspiracy theories.”


Trump had lashed out at the media and Clinton in unusually aggressive and apocalyptic terms on Thursday during a Florida campaign swing.

“This is a conspiracy against you, the American people, and we cannot let this happen or continue,” Trump said. “This is our moment of reckoning as a society and as a civilization itself.”

Trump also accused Clinton of meeting “in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors.”

It was a line that drew a rebuke from Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, who said Trump was engaging in rhetoric used against Jews in the past.

“Lets keep hate out of cmpgn,” Greenblatt tweeted.

Palmieri said of Trump’s comments: “I think there is dog whistles in just about everything he says, including the comments yesterday, that have racial overtones, religious discrimination overtones.”

“And that's been true for a while,” Palmieri said. “The conspiracy theories from yesterday were particularly pronounced.”

She did not seemed concern about Trump’s rhetoric hurting Clinton’s chances on Nov. 8.

“I don’t think that his strategy is going to help him electorally,” Palmieri said. “I don’t think it’s going to bring him any new voters.”