Hillary Clinton blasted Donald Trump as “temperamentally unfit” to be president in a speech today.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton offered a blistering critique of Donald Trump’s national security policies on Thursday, stating bluntly that voters should not risk “putting the lives of our young men and women in uniform in (his) hands”. Those attacks point to another potential pitfall for Trump we saw on display this week when we lashed out at the media – his temperament. They are dangerously incoherent. “They’re not even really ideas – just a series of freaky rants, personal feuds and outright lies”, Clinton said in San Diego.
Trump soon took to Twitter to respond to Clinton.
Hillary Clinton didn’t just deliver a foreign policy speech.
Trump, the Republicans’ presumptive nominee, says he would sit down with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang’s nuclear program and has criticised the decades-old Nato alliance with mainly European nations as obsolete and too costly for the United States.
“I believe the person the Republicans have nominated for president can not do the job”, she said.
There are a number of issues that Clinton takes issue with including Trump’s stance on nuclear proliferation and torture. “I don’t believe him”, she said, calling into question the entire basis of his foreign policy credentials, which are non-existent outside of hotel and golf course deals, some of which he fails to repay the loans on.
“Donald Trump’s ideas are not just different, they’re dangerously incoherent”, Clinton said.
Since Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, Clinton has directly challenged his ability to handle foreign policy issues and has taken to labeling him a “loose cannon” who will make it more hard for the United States to operate on the global arena.
Clinton’s speech – which did not once mention her Democratic primary opponent, Sen. Reading poorly from the telepromter!
While Trump has a big lead over Clinton on changing business as usual in Washington and dealing with Wall Street, Clinton has a almost 30-point lead over Trump on handling foreign policy.
There was nothing diplomatic in her remarks, a clear indication of how she’ll take Mr. Trump on. “She doesn’t even look presidential!” he fired back on Twitter.
Clinton and Trump offer starkly different visions of U.S. foreign policy. But Clinton’s delivery of those familiar points here was pointed, and delivered in nearly roast-like fashion, with Clinton pausing to allow people in the audience to laugh and applaud. “We can not let that happen”.
Ryan, who was the 2012 vice presidential running mate of Mitt Romney, has been sharply critical of Trump.
“If America doesn’t lead, we leave a vacuum – and that will either cause chaos, or other countries will rush in to fill the void”. She’s got bad judgment.
She noted that her tenure as secretary of state gives her the type of foreign policy experience Trump lacks, mentioning her work to advance agreements to fight climate change, a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, a nuclear weapons reduction deal with Russian Federation and sanctions against Iran.
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Clinton talked about how to deal with ISIS, the Iran Deal and the threat of terrorist attacks around the world.
