Clinton attacks the 'steady stream of bigotry' coming from Donald Trump in Reno - while releasing a KKK blitz that his campaign calls a 'disgusting new low'

Hillary Clinton knocked Donald Trump for the 'steady stream of bigotry' coming from his campaign on the heels of releasing an online ad showing a slew of Ku Klux Klan members and white nationalists supporting the Republican hopeful. 

'He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party,' she charged from a campaign stop this afternoon in Reno, Nevada. 

Speaking for 30 minutes, Clinton laced her speech with words like 'prejudice,' 'paranoia,' the 'radical fringe,' and the 'alt-right,' the latest iteration of white supremacy, Clinton said. 

Before her afternoon remarks, a Trump surrogate had already pointed to Clinton's new attack ad, saying it was a 'disgusting new low.' 

Trump, like he said last night, again called Clinton a 'bigot.' 

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Hillary Clinton slammed Donald Trump today in Reno for his connections to the 'alt-right,' a racist strain of right wing politics 

Speaking to voters today in Reno, Nevada, Hillary Clinton said she thought Donald Trump's overtures to the black community were just another way to repeat 'harmful stereotypes' 

Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump and his surrogates' claims about her failing health a 'fever dream,' suggesting it was just another conspiracy theory being pushed by the campaign 

Hillary Clinton spoke to supporters today in Reno, Nevada and listed all the ways Donald Trump has courted the right-wing fringe 

'Alt-right' leaders have cheered the rise of Republican Donald Trump, who kicked off his campaign speaking negatively about illegal immigrants coming in from Mexico

Clinton started her Reno speech by claiming it was voters who compelled it, approaching the Democratic nominee on the campaign trail to voice their worries.

'Everywhere I got people tell me how concerned they are by the divisive rhetoric coming from my opponent in this election,' she said, adding that it's 'like nothing we've ever heard before' from a major party candidate running for president of the United States.

Clinton claimed that Trump was running a campaign filled with 'prejudice and paranoia' and his recent outreach to African-Americans was 'insulting' and 'ignorant' as he suggested that many feared for their lives daily from inner-city crime. 

Clinton called what Trump was doing 'sinister,' suggesting this outreach was nothing more than reinforcing impressions of the black community held by his mostly white audiences. 

'Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters,' Clinton said.   

Clinton mocked Trump's love for conspiracy theories, reminding her audience of his 'birther' background, as Trump had been on the forefront of pushing the fiction that President Barack Obama was born outside the United States.   

'His latest paranoid fever dream is about my health,' she said, noting how Trump and his surrogates had recently tried to push the idea that the 68-year-old Clinton was unwell, with Rudy Giuliani even pointing to online videos that suggested the Democrat was suffering a seizure. 

'And all I can say is, Donald, dream on,' she said. 

The crowd broke into 'HILLARY' chants at this line. 

'This is what happens when you treat the National Enquirer like gospel,' Clinton quipped. 'They said in October I'd be dead in six months.' 

Clinton rehashed many of the controversies of yore – the time Trump said a Mexican-American judge would be biased against his Trump University case; the Star of David anti-Clinton image Trump retweeted, that was viewed as both anti-semitic and sourced from a 'fringe bigot's' Twitter account, Clinton said. 

'Just recently Trump claimed that President Obama founded ISIS. He has repeated that over and over again,' Clinton said. 

She noted how Trump said 'thousands of American Muslim in New Jersey cheered the 9/11 attacks,' Clinton said. 'They didn’t.' 

She reminded the audience how Trump had once tried to link Sen. Ted Cruz's Cuban immigrant father to the President John F. Kennedy assassination, suggesting that it was the Cuban immigrant part of Rafael Cruz's background that would make Trump say such a thing. 

She also heralded Republicans including former President George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain for pushing back when Americans showed their prejudice.  

'This is what I want to make clear today: A man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far reaches of the internet, should never run our government or command our military,' Clinton proclaimed. 

The Trump campaign hit back suggesting that Clinton was trying to sweep her own political issues under the rug by devoting the entire speech to attacking Trump. 

'Donald Trump is talking about issues; Hillary Clinton is talking about Donald Trump,' Kellyanne Conway, Trump's new campaign manager, responded.

'Today, as she took a break from her Hillary-in-Hiding Tour, she missed another opportunity to talk about education, infrastructure, terrorism, healthcare, the economy and energy,' Conway added, alluding to the fact that Clinton has spent most of her week not campaigning, but on a glitzy west coast fundraising tour. 

Hillary Clinton posted her attack ad in this tweet, which she sent out this morning in advance of her speech today in Reno, Nevada 

This morning the Hillary Clinton campaign dropped a web ad featuring footage of an interview with a KKK leader, who told a black interviewer that he was supporting Donald Trump 

The ad showed footage from a CNN report that said that white nationalists were calling voters on behalf of Donald Trump 

Hillary Clinton's ad suggested that Donald Trump was dog whistling those on the far right, including KKK members 

Hillary Clinton is able to make the argument that Donald Trump is tied into the 'alt-right' because of Trump's hiring of  Breitbart's Stephen Bannon (pictured in today's attack ad). Breitbart is credited with taking the 'alt-right' movement more mainstream

Teeing up her Reno speech, Clinton had tweeted out a new online ad, prominently featuring KKK members, which was met with a furious response from the Trump campaign.

'Hillary Clinton and her campaign went to a disgusting new low today as they released a video tying the Trump Campaign with horrific racial images,' said Pastor Mark Burns, a Trump surrogate, in a statement. 'This type of rhetoric and repulsive advertising is revolting and completely beyond the pale.' 

'I call on Hillary Clinton to disavow this video and her campaign for this sickening act that has no place in our world,' Burns added.  

The spot, which the Democrat tweeted out this morning, starts with a KKK imperial wizard saying, 'The reason a lot of Klan members like Donald Trump is because a lot of what he believes we believe in.'

It goes on to quote a self-identified 'white nationalist'  and former KKK grand wizard David Duke, both of whom are also supporting Trump. 

'If Trump wins they could be running the country,' the ad warns. 

It also mentions Trump's new campaign CEO, Breitbart's Stephen Bannon, and his connections to the 'alt-right.' 

The 'alt-right' is a rather new term and its definition is still nebulous, but conservatives who prescribe to it say they are trying to preserve 'white identity' and 'Western values' as liberals push multiculturalism and 'political correctness.'

In Reno today, Clinton pegged it as a new term for old ideas.

'The names may have changed… Racists now call themselves "racialists." White supremacists now call themselves "white nationalists." The paranoid fringe now calls itself "alt-right,"' she said. 

'But the hate burns just as bright,' she added. 

In the run-up to her speech, Trump's campaign pushed back noting how the candidate has never even uttered the words 'alt-right.'   

'Mr. Trump has never used or condoned that term and continues to disavow any groups or individuals associated with a message of hate,' said campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks in a statement. 

But while Trump's campaign reorganization last week may have put the GOP nominee on more solid footing, it opened him up to this type of criticism because Breitbart News Network, where Bannon, Trump's new CEO was borrowed from, has been linked to this new strain of conservatism.  

The Clinton campaign pointed to an assessment made by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups within the United States.

An April 2016 piece on SPLC's website is headlined, 'Is Breitbart.com becoming the media arm of the 'alt-right?'' and charts Breitbart's move from a conservative news site to one more willing to embrace white nationalists, with prominent Breitbart writers Allum Bokhari and Milo Yiannopoulos calling some of its founders 'intellectuals.'   

Clinton took on Breitbart in Reno by simply reading some of the news site's headlines to the crowd. 

'To give you a flavor of his work, here are a few headlines they’ve published,' she said of Bannon, before she began.

'Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy,' she listed. 'Would You Rather Your Child Had Feminism or Cancer?, Gabby Giffords: The Gun Control Movement’s Human Shield, Hoist It High And Proud: The Confederate Flag Proclaims A Glorious Heritage.' 

'That one came shortly after the Charleston massacre, when Democrats and Republicans alike were doing everything they could to heal racial divides,' Clinton pointed out. 'Breitbart tried to enflame them further.'  

'Just imagine – Donald Trump reading that and thinking: "this is what I need more of in my campaign,"' she said. 

'Trump likes to say he only hires the "best people," but he’s had to fire so many campaign managers it’s like an episode of the Apprentice,' she cracked. 

Besides name-dropping Bannon, Clinton ticked off the right's other characters that Trump has become associated with too. 

She pointed to outgoing UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage's appearance with Trump at a campaign stop last night. She spoke of his appearances on the radio with host Alex Jones, who she described a 9/11 and Oklahoma City bombing truther who has made similar statements about Sandy Hook. 

 'He ever said, and this is really so disgusting, he even said that the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors. And no one actually died,' Clinton said.  

'I don't know what happens in somebody's mind or how dark their heart must be to say things like that, but Trump doesn't challenge these lies,' she said. 

Her takeaway to the crowd was that Trump – even with new leadership and a more moderated strategy – is the same old Trump. 

'He may have some new people putting new words in his mouth,' Clinton noted. 'But we know where he stands.' 

Clinton argued that it wasn't just 'overheated campaign rhetoric' or 'an outrageous person saying outrageous things for attention.' 

'But look at his policies,' she said. 'The ones that he's proposed,' she said, noting his plans to deport millions of illegal immigrants or ban non-American Muslims into the United States.

'They put prejudice into practice,' she said.