US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton tore into presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as never before on Thursday, saying his foreign policy is dangerously incoherent and labeling him unfit for office.
“He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility,” Clinton said, cranking up the rhetoric in what is already a deeply acrimonious election season.
“This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes,” she said.
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Trump, speaking at a rally in San Jose, California, on Thursday night, ridiculed Clinton’s speech.
“It was pathetic. It was so sad to watch. She was up there, supposed to be a foreign policy speech, it was a political speech, had nothing to do with foreign policy,” he said.
Earlier, the businessman took to Twitter as Clinton was speaking: “Bad performance by Crooked Hillary Clinton! Reading poorly from the teleprompter! She doesn’t even look presidential!”
The 69-year-old celebrity real- estate mogul burst onto the political scene last year, leveraging his fame to garner media coverage and dispatching much more experienced Republican rivals.
However, in the process Trump has rejected many of the central tenets of foreign policy endorsed by both major parties.
He has questioned the utility of NATO, expressed admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and appeared cavalier about the prospect of nuclear weapons proliferation.
Clinton ridiculed her foe — painting him as a thin-skinned neophyte — and voiced incredulity at his views.
“I will leave it to the psychiatrists to explain his affection for tyrants,” she said, while trying to showcase her own grasp of world affairs.
“Even if I weren’t in this race, I’d be doing everything I could to make sure Donald Trump never becomes president, because I believe he will take our country down a truly dangerous path,” she told an audience in San Diego, California.
Protesters who oppose Trump scuffled with his supporters outside the San Jose Convention Center, where the business tycoon’s rally was taking place, with fistfights erupting and one supporter hit with an egg.
Hundreds of demonstrators blocked a police van and then entered the convention center’s parking area, insulting Trump supporters in their cars and attacking those leaving the rally.
A dozen or more people were punched, the Los Angeles Times reported, saying at least one person was hit with an egg.
Crowds had earlier chanted: “No hate in our state” and carried signs that read “Dump Trump” as they marched near the convention center.
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