Campaign email notes that if elected, Hillary Clinton will silence opposition media outlet

Campaign email notes that if elected, Hillary Clinton will silence opposition media outlet

The oath of office the president takes at his inauguration has apparently been changed. It now reads:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President (or Absolute Monarch) of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States (or do whatever the hell I feel like).

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign has sent out a fundraising email arguing the website Breitbart News has no “right to exist,” and suggests that if elected, the website will be shut down entirely.

“We’ve had a conservative media in this country for a while,” says the email, sent Thursday and signed by deputy communications director Christina Reynolds. “I don’t always like what they have to say, but I respect their role and their right to exist. Reynolds’s acknowledgment that the regular conservative media has a “right to exist,” though, is used to contrast it with Breitbart, which apparently has no such right:

Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?

Breitbart is something different. They make Fox News look like a Democratic Party pamphlet. They’re a different breed altogether — not just conservative but radical, bigoted, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic conspiracy peddlers who never have been and never should be anywhere near the levers of power in this country.

One of the goals of Clinton’s campaign, Reynolds says, is to ensure Breitbart is destroyed.

“It goes without saying that we have to beat these people. But I want to beat them so decisively that their kind never rises again,” she says.

Reynolds’ aggressive attack was sparked by Republican nominee Donald Trump’s decision to shake up his campaign by bringing on Breitbart executive chairman Stephen Bannon to serve as his campaign CEO.

This report, by Blake Neff, was cross-posted by arrangement with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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