Local Trump supporters call Clinton 'ethically challenged'

BOARDMAN

Local supporters of Republican Donald Trump’s presidential bid want Mahoning Valley voters to know that Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, and her husband, Bill, the former president, shouldn’t be trusted.

“They both have a history of telling lies and half-truths and making promises they don’t keep,” Mahoning County Republican Party Chairman Mark Munroe said Friday outside the Southern Park Mall.

In 1992, Bill Clinton, fresh off capturing the Democratic presidential nomination, had a rally with 8,000 people outside the mall promising his support for Youngstown’s bid for a federal Defense Finance and Accounting Services center if elected. He won, but the center – and 7,000 jobs – never came.

“People under 30 years of age don’t know about this,” Munroe said. “They both are ethically challenged.”

In response, Mahoning County Democratic Party Chairman David Betras said, “I’m not surprised the Republicans are reaching back 24 years in their desperate attempt to deflect attention from their nominee’s record of outsourcing jobs, filing bankruptcy, abusing workers, and retaliating against Trump employees who attempt to unionize.”

Read more about the protest in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.