Pivoting Clinton: Trump is a ‘loose cannon’

Published May 8, 2016 4:24pm ET



Ignoring the democratic primary race, Hillary Clinton turned her attention to the general election Sunday, detailing ways in which Donald Trump is a “loose cannon.”

“Being a loose cannon means saying that other nations should go ahead and acquire nuclear weapons for themselves — when that is the last thing we need in the world today,” Clinton said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday. “Being a loose cannon is saying we should pull out of NATO — the strongest military alliance in the history of the world, and something that we really need to modernize, but not abandon.”

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