Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump is not qualified to be president https://t.co/reD0ZEpvnM https://t.co/wx2Hcx8pTN
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Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Thursday afternoon argued that Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, is not qualified to be commander in chief.
“No, I do not,” Clinton responded during an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo when asked if she thought the billionaire was qualified to be president.
{mosads}”I know how hard this job is and I know that we need steadiness as well as strength and smarts in it and I have concluded he is not qualified to be president of the United States,” Clinton added later.
The former secretary of State hit Trump for this week “attacking” Great Britain, “praising” North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, whom she described as a “dictator” with nuclear weapons, as well as calling for a drawdown of U.S. involvement in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
“The kinds of positions he is stating and the consequences of those positions … are not just offensive to people, they are potentially dangerous,” Clinton said, panning his “irresponsible, reckless, dangerous” comments generally on foreign policy while also ripping his remarks on domestic policy later.
Clinton said that “based on the way he has behaved” and the policy proposals he has offered up, “I think it adds up to a very troubling picture.”
The former first lady is leaning on her foreign policy credentials in going after her likely GOP challenger in November, who in an interview Wednesday night raised the specter of rape allegations regarding her husband, former President Bill Clinton. She declined to respond to those attacks on Thursday.
She also insisted she’ll be the Democratic Party’s nominee, emphasizing that she and Democratic rival Bernie Sanders, along with their supporters, are “much closer” than either of them to Trump.