Let them eat chocolate! Clinton dodges questions from 'cooperative' reporters by offering them free sweets (and it's been 264 days since her last real press conference)

  • Reporters tried to ask Hillary Clinton questions during a campaign stop after Thursday's blistering anti-Trump speech in Nevada
  • She refused to engage them, saying instead that employees of the a chocolatier near the coffee shop she was visiting should give the journalists free samples
  • Clinton hasn't held a formal press conference since last December
  • One reporter who piped up that it seemed like a good time for a Q-and-A was met with laughter 

By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com

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Hillary Clinton followed her pointed speech accusing Donald Trump's campaign of embracing racism on Thursday with a polite brushoff of reporters trying to ask her about it.

It has been 264 days since the Democratic nominee held a formal press conference. In a planned stop at a coffee shop, she dodged questions by offering her 'cooperative' traveling press corps some chocolate.

After Clinton and Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve pressed the flesh with voters at Hub Coffee Roasters in Reno, Nevada, employees of the nearby Dorinda's Chocolates offered Hillary a sample from a platter of chocolate truffles.

And as journalists piped up with questions, she urged them to fill up their mouths with sweets instead.

PACIFIER: Hillary Clinton dodged reporters' questions in Reno, Nevada after a blistering anti-Trump speech, telling them to try some chocolate instead

PACIFIER: Hillary Clinton dodged reporters' questions in Reno, Nevada after a blistering anti-Trump speech, telling them to try some chocolate instead

I want you to offer some to the press,' Clinton told the coffee shop staff in an outdoor courtyard after one reporter asked: 'Why not outright call Donald Trump a racist today?

'They are so wonderful, so cooperative, so hard-working. They deserve a piece of chocolate,' she said.

The seconds-long attempt at luring Clinton into an unscripted Q-and-A began with a journalist calling out: 'Now's a good time for a question, right?'

His query was met with laughter.

STRONGER LANGUAGE: Clinton's speech hammered the Trump campaign for cozying up to racists, but she never came out and said the Republican nominee was a racist himself; when a reporter asked her why, she said the press should eat chocolate instead (which they never got)

STRONGER LANGUAGE: Clinton's speech hammered the Trump campaign for cozying up to racists, but she never came out and said the Republican nominee was a racist himself; when a reporter asked her why, she said the press should eat chocolate instead (which they never got)

Another reporter, from CNN, asked her a question about her husband, former President Bill Clinton, but the candidate wouldn't play along.

Video footage from ABC News and the Reno Gazette-Journal showed the Democratic presidential hopeful tasting one piece of chocolate and commenting: 'Love the salt. So good.'

'Oh my gosh. This is really good,' she added.

Gazette-Journal reporter Seth Richardson noted drily afterward on Twitter: 'We didn't get any chocolate.'

 

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