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Clinton on Trump: 'Everything is a game' to him
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Charlotte
(CNN) Hillary Clinton unleashed a torrent of attacks against Donald
Trump's preparedness to be commander in chief and questioned his
patriotism Thursday morning, hours after an NBC forum exposed her
opponent to criticism on multiple fronts.
Clinton on Trump: 'Everything is a game' to him
Clinton, Trump throwdown at presidential forum 02:58
Story highlights
- Clinton held a last-minute news conference with reporters
- She sought to capitalize on Trump's performance at a national security forum
Charlotte (CNN)Hillary
Clinton unleashed a torrent of attacks against Donald Trump's
preparedness to be commander in chief and questioned his patriotism
Thursday morning, hours after an NBC forum exposed her opponent to
criticism on multiple fronts.
"It
is a game to him. Everything is a game. It is like he is living in his
own celebrity reality TV program," Clinton said at a campaign rally in
Charlotte Thursday afternoon. "You know what Donald, this is real
reality, this is real people, these are real decisions that have to be
made for our country."
Clinton
had begun the day on the offensive, by convening a press conference
with reporters on the tarmac of Westchester County Airport before she
and her traveling press corps were set to take off to North Carolina.
"Last
night was yet another test and Donald Trump failed yet again. We saw
more evidence that he is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified
to be commander in chief. He trash talked American generals," she said.
At the NBC "Commander in Chief" forum Wednesday night, Clinton and Trump were separately questioned by anchor Matt Lauer on various national security and foreign policy topics.
Among
Trump's comments was his extensive praise of Russian President Vladimir
Putin -- Trump even went as far as to say he was a better leader than
Barack Obama.
"He's been a leader,
far more than our president has been a leader," Trump said. "If (Putin)
says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him.
I've already said he is really very much of a leader."
Clinton characterized these comments as "unpatriotic" Thursday morning.
"Bizarrely
once again, he praised Russia's strongman, Vladimir Putin, even taking
the astonishing step of suggesting that he preferred the Russian
president to our American president. Now, that is not just unpatriotic
and insulting, to the people of our country as well as to our commander
in chief, it is scary," Clinton said. "Because it suggests he will let
Putin do whatever Putin wants to do and then make excuses for him."
Trump
on Wednesday also insisted on repeating a claim that has been
previously debunked -- that the businessman was "totally against the war
in Iraq."
There is no evidence to
date that shows Trump came out against the Iraq War early on, and in
fact, he initially said he supported the conflict.
Another moment that stirred up controversy was when Trump stood by a 2013 tweet in which he seemed to suggest military sexual assault is simply expected if women choose to serve.
"What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?" Trump tweeted.
Clinton,
meanwhile, demonstrated her fluency on foreign policy at Wednesday
night's forum, but still found herself defending her record. She said
her vote to authorize the Iraq War was a "mistake," then vowed: "We are
not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again and we are not putting
ground troops into Syria."
Clinton
elaborated on those remarks at the Thursday press conference, saying
putting a significant number of US troops on the ground in Iraq and
Syria would "fulfill one of (ISIS') dearest wishes which is to drag the
United States back into a ground war in that region."
And
asked Thursday whether she believes she is being held to a different
standard than Trump, Clinton -- who on Wednesday asked that she be
"judged on the totality of my record" -- responded that it was a "fair
question."
"I have been somewhat
heartened by the number of articles recently pointed out the quite
disparate treatment of Trump and his campaign compared to ours," Clinton
said. "I don't understand the reasons for it. I find it frustrating,
but it is just part of the landscape that we live in and we just keep
forging ahead."
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