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Today's Hillary News & Views begins with the latest on the general election matchup between Clinton and Trump.
Clinton imagined a debate between the two of them on the campaign trail yesterday:
x YouTube VideoClinton ridiculed Trump’s obsession over the nineties and complete lack of seriousness.
Poltiico reports:
“Now some people might say, oh you know, all anybody wants to hear is just ‘I’m gonna do it, but I’m not tellin’ you what I’m gonna do,’” Clinton said, referring to Trump. “See, I don’t believe that. Maybe in the preliminaries in the Republican primary that’s all they wanted to hear, but Americans take their vote for president seriously. And they’re going to be looking at their TV screen and saying, ‘He still doesn’t have anything to tell us? Wait a minute.’”
Clinton then referred to her record on job creation, remarking, “I think my husband did a heck of a job back in the ’90s.”
Minutes later, Clinton discussed Trump’s tax proposals, which she said would increase national debt, raise interest rates and suppress economic growth.
“He’s gone so far as to say he wants to renegotiate the federal debt of the United States of America,” she said, to boos in the audience. “You know, this is not a real-estate deal. The full faith and credit of the United States of America is one of our most valuable assets as a nation.”
Meanwhile, her foreign policy adviser outlined their framing of Trump’s policies in that area.
Politico reports:
Hillary Clinton and her campaign officials so far have focused on Donald Trump’s tax plan and the economy as they begin the difficult task of defining and attacking the presumptive Republican nominee.
But on Monday evening, Clinton’s senior policy adviser, Jake Sullivan, began to outline how the campaign will take on Trump's "America First" foreign policy, calling him a “tremendously dangerous risk” and someone who vacillates wildly on his basic beliefs.
“It is very, very difficult to pin down where he stands on a lot of these policies,” said Sullivan, who participated in an hourlong foreign policy discussion with former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, president of the Asia Society Policy Institute, at the Asia Society in Manhattan.
“He’ll say on the one hand, the Chinese are eating our lunch, and on the other hand, we have all the leverage in the world to make the Chinese do exactly what we want,” Sullivan said. “On the one hand, we should sit down with the Russians. ... on the other hand, if I need to, I’ll just shoot down Russian fighter jets. He says on the one hand, the United States can do whatever it wants, wherever it wants, for whatever purpose it wants. On the other hand, we’re doing too much and we can’t do all that.”
Sullivan, Clinton’s top national security and foreign policy adviser, warned that Trump’s statements that more countries should be able to obtain nuclear weapons “has the very real risk of sparking a nuclear arms race, and also makes it increasingly likely that terrorists will get their hands on nuclear weapons, which is the greatest threat that the United States faces.”
He added that Trump created more risk by saying we “should simply order our military officers, against the law, to kill the families of terrorists. He has said many things along those lines. If you add up the totality, however you slice it, whichever pieces you accept, the picture that is painted is one of a tremendously dangerous risk.”