Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump reacted to a new inspector general’s report released Wednesday criticizing Hillary Clinton’s email practices during her tenure at the State Department.
Opening up his event in Anaheim, Calif., Trump told an arena full of supporters that the new report is “not good” for the former secretary of state before adding that he still hopes to run against her in the general election. The report from the State Department’s inspector general concluded that Clinton violated the the agency’s record-keeping policy by withholding her communications.
“She had a little bad news today, as you know from some reports that came down. Not so good,” Trump told supporters. “Inspector general’s report — not good! But I want to run against Hillary. I just want to run against her.”
Trump then said that he wasn’t sure if he would ultimately be able to, noting that he might have to run against Sen. Bernie Sanders, who he’s deemed “crazy.” He also floated that the Democrats might try to “slip” Vice President Joe Biden into the race and into a general election contest instead of Sanders if something happens to Clinton.
“Look, I don’t know if you’re going to be able to. It could be that we’re going to run against crazy Bernie. That could be. He’s a crazy man, but that’s okay. We like crazy people,” Trump said. “I hear they want to put Biden in. I hear they’re actually going to slip Joe Biden in, and he’s going to take Bernie’s place.”
Trump then argued again that “the system is rigged against Bernie — 100 percent.”
Later on in the event, Trump warned against a Clinton presidency, telling the crowd that there will be “nothing but turmoil” coming in the next four years, which Trump called a third term for President Barack Obama.
The Wednesday report said that Clinton should have “preserved any federal records” from the private email account and that she “did not comply” with the department’s policies. Two of her top aides, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, declined to be interviewed for the report.
“Secretary Clinton should have preserved any federal records she created and received on her personal account by printing and filing those records … because she did not do so, she did not comply with the department’s policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act,” the watchdog report said.
