Donald Trump sought to convince Virginia voters on Monday that Hillary Clinton’s “disloyalty” to outgoing Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz shows she can’t be trusted to protect American families.
Minutes after Wasserman Schultz confirmed she will not gavel the Democratic National Convention to order Monday afternoon, Trump took the stage in battleground Virginia and claimed the party chief had been thrown “under the bus” by Clinton.
“Debbie Wasserman Schultz, I always knew she was highly overrated. I always knew. Not good. She just got fired. They said, Debbie — you’re fired. Get out Debbie. Boy, they were brutal,” the Republican presidential nominee told the crowd.
“How about that for disloyalty though, in terms of Hillary Clinton? Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been so much for Hillary Clinton. There’s no loyalty there. None whatsoever. It gets a little heat and they fire her,” Trump said.
Trump, who has scheduled a series of campaign events throughout the course of this week’s Democratic convention, suggested Clinton was privy to efforts by DNC officials to undermine Bernie Sanders’ campaign during the primary, which were revealed in a hacked emails leaked over the weekend.
“Hillary Clinton knew everything that was going on. She knew it’s a rigged system [and] that Bernie Sanders never had a chance,” Trump claimed.
He continued, “Look how disloyal Hillary Clinton was to someone who put her life on the line. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, what she did to make sure the rigged system stays intact and Hillary Clinton [got the nomination]. Debbie was totally loyal to Hillary and Hillary threw her under the bus and it didn’t take her more than five minutes to make that decision.”
“Man, I don’t want her covering my back,” Trump said of Clinton.
Wasserman Schultz was given a position on Clinton’s campaign immediately after she announced her resignation. The outgoing DNC chairwoman will begin working for Clinton’s 50-state project as soon as she leaves her post on the final day of the convention in Philadelphia.
