Hillary Clinton’s next round of attacks on Donald Trump will be aimed at casting him as “temperamentally unfit to be responsible for the world’s largest economy,” she told USA Today on Wednesday.
Clinton, previewing a speech next week in Columbus, said she will be switching gears from foreign policy and national security to the economy in the next round of her assault on the presumptive GOP nominee’s credentials.
{mosads}She said she will focus on painting Trump’s appeals to working-class Americans as hypocritical, charging that his tax plan would give the country’s wealthiest a $3 trillion tax break over 10 years and lower tax rates for rich Americans who make their money off the stock market.
“They would actually see their carried interest rate cut by one-third, making the loophole worse rather than closing it,” Clinton said of the country’s wealthiest. “He’s either completely incoherent or he hasn’t thought one bit about his plan.”
In contrast, Clinton promised as president to seek an executive order to close that carried-interest loophole, which allows those who make money off the stock market to classify that income as investments, if Congress fails to act.
The shift toward Trump’s economic record comes after an almost daily string of speeches aimed at cutting down Trump’s national security chops. That strategy was only heightened by Sunday’s mass shooting in Orlando that killed 49 people and left Clinton hammering Trump’s response to the tragedy.