Clinton rejects new comparisons to Trump

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Sunday rejected comparisons to Donald Trump after she ramped up her rhetoric against the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and called him a “dictator” in a speech last week.

{mosads}Clinton said on ABC’s “This Week” that she has not concluded that the best way to beat Trump is to be a bit more like him.

“No, not at all. I laid out in my speech in San Diego the crux of my concerns and my case against him on foreign policy and national security,” she said. “And a lot of what he says plays into what I consider to be a very divisive and dangerous view of the world. And I think it’s important that we call it for what it is.”

Clinton reiterated her comments that Trump is “temperamentally unfit” to be president.

“He doesn’t really have ideas. He makes bizarre rants and engages in personal feuds and outright lies. He does apparently seem to have very thin skin, and I think that those kind of attributes, that temperament, is ill-suited for someone to be our president and commander in chief,” she said.

“And he’s already, as I recited in my San Diego speech, on record on so many issues that run counter to what Democrats, Republicans alike over many decades have thought was in America’s interest, in accordance with our values, and that to me is cause for concern.”

Clinton said the biggest danger is Trump’s “scapegoating and finger-pointing,” adding that he is someone who doesn’t tell the truth.

“He doesn’t seem to be bothered by the constant inherent contradictions. I said he had said that he would not mind having other countries have nuclear weapons, including Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia. He said he didn’t. A lot of news outlets, of course, easily pulled up the video of him saying all of that,” she said.

“His unpredictability, his putting everything in highly personal terms has rattled — and that’s the word President Obama used — has rattled our closest allies, has caused a lot of serious concern around the world because people are not used to seeing anyone, a Republican or a Democrat, running for president who is so loose with the truth, so divisive and so dismissive of very legitimate concerns about safety, security, our values and who we are as a nation.”