Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump “dangerous” and “reckless” an interview with CBS News’ Charlie Rose Monday night.
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Clinton charged that Trump has “no self-discipline, no self-control, no sense of history, no understanding of the limits of the kind of power that any president should impose upon himself.”
The presumed Democratic nominee noted that Trump has called for the U.S. military to “return to torture” — i.e. waterboarding — and thus order them “to commit war crimes.”
“What he has laid out is the most dangerous, reckless approach to being president that I think we’ve ever seen,” Clinton said.
When asked by Rose if Trump is the most dangerous man to ever run for president, Clinton affirmed his statement.
“I believe that. I believe that,” Clinton responded.
According to Clinton, Trump is using the fears of Americans to his advantage.
“So people are worried. And when Americans are worried they’re looking for answers. He’s providing simplistic, easy answers. ‘Let’s make America great again,’ which means basically, ‘We’ll go back to the way it was and you — you out there, whoever you are, you’re gonna have a better shot,'” Clinton explained.
Trump, Clinton said, is providing “a really small vision of the American dream. ‘The American Dream is only so big. And boy, you know, some people are now in it who weren’t there 50, 60, 70 years ago. So we wanna go back to the way it was.'”
“That’s nonsense,” she told Rose. “We can’t turn the clock back.”
Trump is expected to formally accept the GOP presidential nomination on Thursday. The Democratic National Convention kicks off next Monday in Philadelphia.
