Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton will slam Republican Donald Trump for being too friendly with North Korea and too harsh on European allies during a foreign policy speech in California on Thursday, created to paint the billionaire businessman as unfit for the White House.
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“He’s not just unprepared – he’s temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and enormous responsibility”, Clinton said during the speech in San Diego, California, days before Tuesday’s primary in the Golden State effectively concludes the primary season and confirms her as the presumptive Democratic nominee over Vermont Sen. Democratic rival Bernie Sanders is fighting her for the state’s 475 delegates that will be divvied up on Tuesday.
On Thursday, Clinton used a foreign policy speech in California to paint Trump’s policy platform as “dangerously incoherent” and cast her Republican rival as both a frightening and laughable figure.
Trump peppered his speech Thursday with digs at Clinton but largely avoided responding directly to numerous claims Clinton leveled against him earlier in the day, in which she accused the presumptive Republican nominee of having “dangerously incoherent” ideas on foreign policy.
“I believe the person the Republicans have nominated for president can not do the job”, Clinton said.
“That was a phony speech”, Trump said at a rally Thursday night in San Jose, California. She played Trump’s assertions about climate change for laughs.
Hillary Clinton may have found her message.
He is also railing against Clinton’s use of a homebrew email server, which has become the subject of a federal probe. “She was up there, supposed to be a foreign policy speech, it was a political speech, had nothing to do with foreign policy”.
California Governor Jerry Brown this week endorsed Clinton in the Democratic contest, saying she was the “only path forward” to “stop the unsafe candidacy of Donald Trump”.
One by one, Clinton recited a long list of Trump’s statements on foreign policy issues.
He adds: “Reading poorly from the teleprompter!”
Trump is responding, “My temperament is so much tougher, so much better than hers”.
“He believes we can treat the USA economy like one of his casinos and default on our debts to the rest of the world, which would cause an economic catastrophe far worse than anything we experienced in 2008”, she continued. “She doesn’t even look presidential!” the presumptive GOP nominee wrote as her address ended.
He says, “People will not allow another four years of incompetence!”
He joked that it was “hard to stay awake” during Clinton’s speech and said she would make a lot of money if she delivered speeches to insomniacs.
Clinton says that while that might work in negotiating a golf course deal, “it doesn’t work like that in world affairs”.
Clinton says, “We have to unify our country”.
Those liabilities include the aftermath of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation intervention in Libya, in which she played a dominant role and which left behind a unsafe failed state and a terror haven, as well as the Obama administration’s “reset” of relations with Russian Federation, which critics say was naïve and ineffective.
But in the process Trump has rejected numerous central tenets of foreign policy endorsed by both major parties.
Donald Trump hitting back at Hillary Clinton via Twitter after a speech that eviscerated his plans for America’s foreign policy.
She is ramping up her criticism of the presumptive Republican nominee and trying to quell concerns within her own party that she isn’t ready to rumble with the famously combative Trump. She said of Trump’s vague proposals: “This isn’t reality television – this is actual reality”.
The former secretary of state, who has repeatedly called Trump a “loose cannon”, will seek to contrast her foreign policy experience with Trump’s.
“You know what, I don’t believe him”, she added.
Clinton argued in her speech Thursday that Trump lacks the temperament and experience to be president.
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“Imagine Donald Trump sitting in the Situation Room, making life-or-death decisions on behalf of the United States”. “Those are the words, my friends, of someone who doesn’t understand America or the world, and they’re the words of someone who would lead us in the wrong direction”.
