Donald Trump only watched a bit of Hillary Clinton’s testimony on Benghazi, but that was enough to turn him off.
“I have not been hearing positive things. How is she doing?” the Republican presidential hopeful asked radio show host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday night.
“Terribly,” Hewitt responded.
“I mean, I just saw, you know, it was very interesting, because I did have to leave, and I watched maybe five or six minutes, maybe 10 minutes, her opening remarks, and the way she was reading them, it sounded terrible. The whole thing sounded terrible,” Trump then said.
Instead of watching more of Clinton’s testimony in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, which lasted roughly 11 hours Thursday, Trump said he went back upstairs to prepare for his campaign stop in Florida Friday.
“I don’t want to watch this hearing. But I can get, from you, I’ll get better than watching it. That’s the thing I like about you,” Trump told Hewitt.
When asked by Hewitt what he would think of someone in the boardroom “with her hand on her face, with her head … cocked to one side contemptuously,” the businessman said it sounded like the former secretary of State was “trying to feign boredom.”
Clinton “probably wants to just get out of there,” Trump said.
“It really, you know, sort of indicates two things. But she’s trying to feign disdain and boredom. And it just sounded to me, I have other friends that have been watching it very studiously today, and they are really surprised,” Trump added.
“You know, when I watched Trey Gowdy on, I think it was ‘Face The Nation’ this weekend, it sounded to me like he was not going to go after her that much, Hugh, because he was sort of saying well, we have other people, and she’s just a small part of it. It sounded to me like he was pulling back. But as I’m hearing it today, they’re not pulling back at all. They’re really going into it, and I’m just hearing she’s looking very bad,” Trump concluded. “Maybe Biden did the wrong thing getting out yesterday.”
Trump, like Clinton, leads his party’s RealClearPolitics average of polls. Against the crowded GOP field, Trump leads with 27.2 percent of the vote, while Clinton against the smaller Democratic field gets 47.8 percent.
