Hillary Clinton used Donald Trump’s own words against him Monday, and claimed the GOP nominee has a troubling fascination with dictators.
“He gets confused between leadership and dictatorship,” Clinton said Monday during a campaign event in Akron, Ohio.
She said this as she highlighted Trump’s infamous claim this year at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland that he “alone” is best suited to fix the country’s problems.
“I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people that cannot defend themselves,” Trump said.
“Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it,” the Republican candidate added.
On Monday, Clinton suggested that Trump’s claim that he “alone” can fix what ails the country underscores his fondness for authoritarians.
“[Trump] has a hard time remembering who our friends are and who our adversaries are,” Clinton said. “He has a weird fascination with dictators like [Russian President] Vladimir Putin. We have a lot of people living in this part of Ohio who either themselves or their parents or grandparents came from countries that were under the yolk of oppression, and we’re never going to let that happen again!”
