Clinton on Trump’s foreign Policy.
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, commented on a wide range of Donald J Trump’s foreign policy statements. In a sharpe rebuke of her likely Republican opponent, she said that he was hopelessly unprepared and temperamentally unfit to be the commander in Chief. She also added that electing him would be terrible mistake. Clinton said of Trump, “this in not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us to war because someone got under his very thin skin”.
Mrs. Clinton was speaking to an audience in San Diego who laughed and cheered as she debunked Mr. Trumps foreign policy pronouncements. She said they were “not even really ideas, just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lie”.
The speech revealed what was likely to be the core argument that Clinton will carry into the general election. Her speech was a mixture of biting sarcasm and somber assessment of the Obama years. There were no new policy prescriptions in her speech, while skipping over difficult episodes during her tenure as secretary of state, the NATO intervention in Libya and its bloody aftermath in Benghazi.
It won her the kind of sustained live coverage that Mr. Trump has routinely enjoyed. Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s declaration of support for Trump stole her thunder in the first few minutes of the Clinton speech.
Clinton said she imagined that Trump was composing nasty tweets about her even as she spoke which tuned out to be true. Trump wrote, “Bad performance by Hillary Clinton”, Reading poorly from the teleprompter.” And she doesn’t even look presidential. She sought to turn Trump’s tweeter habit against him by referring to the mood in the white house situation room as she advised the president on the raid on a compound in Pakistan that killed Osama bin laden which elicited cries of “NO” from the audience. Mr. trump, in an interview with the New York times during Clinton’s speech said Mrs. Clinton’s performance was “terrible and pathetic”. He also added, “I’m not thin-skinned at all. I’m the opposite of thin-skinned.”
The speech was studded with punch lines: Mr. Trump “doesn’t have a clue what he is talking about,” at one point Mrs. Clinton said” Donald doesn’t see the complexity” at another she said of a Trump presidency “This isn’t reality Television”, “This is actual reality.” The speech came after weeks of study by Clinton aides to determine which attacks by Mr. Trump’s Republican rivals had not worked. After having initially given a tame response to Mr. Trump’s proposal to default on the national debt, calling the idea “risky” Mrs. Clinton on Thursday that such an action would lead to “an economic catastrophe.” He believes we can treat the US economy like one of his casinos,” she said.
Mrs. Clinton presented herself as a sure – footed commander in chief, a fervent believer in America as an exceptional country, tested by her time in the situation room. She also stressed her ability to go “toe - to – toe” with leaders in Beijing and Moscow. She contrasted that with what she said was Mr. Trump’s “bizarre fascination with dictators and strongmen who have no love for America.