The annual white-tie affair has historically been a place for the presidential candidates to make some good-natured jokes. Like many things related to this election, the dinner did not go according to tradition.
Trump took the stage first and his early jokes played well. The best-received one made light of the accusations of plagiarism that hit Melania Trump after her speech at the Republican convention.
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But things started to go off the rails when Trump called Clinton corrupt. 鈥淗illary is so corrupt she got kicked off the Watergate commission. How corrupt do you have to be to get kicked off the Watergate commission?鈥� Trump joked.
And the boos began.
The boos got louder when Trump joked, 鈥淗ere she is in public, pretending not to hate Catholics.鈥� The joke was an apparent reference to one the emails released by Wikileaks.
Clinton got in several jabs of her own, although she didn鈥檛 draw out the boo birds.
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Well, at least they shook hands at the end.