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Clinton dumps on Trump

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, in a foreign policy speech in San Diego on June 2, honed the case for her candidacy down to the narrow and compelling argument that Donald Trump is unfit to be commander in chief.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks on national security in San Diego, California, United States, June 2, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake  - RTX2FF04
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks on national security in San Diego, California, June 2, 2016. — REUTERS/Mike Blake

Washington — Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton found her footing in a major foreign policy speech in San Diego June 2, offering voters a clear choice on the question of who is more qualified to be US commander-in-chief, her or Donald Trump.

“Americans aren’t just electing a president in November. We’re choosing our next commander in chief — the person we count on to decide questions of war and peace, life and death,” Clinton said in a foreign policy speech in San Diego on June 2. “And like many across our country and around the world, I believe the person the Republicans have nominated for president cannot do the job.”

“Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different — they are dangerously incoherent,” Clinton charged. “They’re not even really ideas — just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lies. He is not just unprepared — he is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility.”

“This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes — because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin,” Clinton said. “We cannot let him roll the dice with America.”

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