Hillary Clinton told on Wednesday she plans to make the case for why Donald Trump is “temperamentally unfit” to manage the nation’s economy and pledged to end a tax loophole for wealthy Americans by executive action if necessary in a preview of a second major policy address, scheduled for next week, that casts the real estate mogul as dangerous and unqualified.
In her first interview after meeting with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday night in Washington, Clinton declined to offer a definitive position on one of his key demands as his Democratic presidential bid winds down: that party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz be replaced. While Clinton praised Wasserman Schultz for her commitment to defeating Donald Trump, she noted that she had not selected the Florida congresswoman to head the Democratic National Committee, but had not “heard any conversations in the party” about making a change.
Earlier this month in San Diego, Clinton delivered a blistering speech that cast Trump as too dangerous to serve as the nation’s commander in chief due to his proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, lack of foreign policy knowledge and his temperament. She’s continued those attacks in the days following Sunday’s Orlando nightclub massacre, the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
In a speech in Columbus next Wednesday, Clinton said she will make “a similar case on the economy that I did on foreign policy: that Donald Trump is erratic and temperamentally unfit to be responsible for the world’s largest economy.”
Clinton pointed to one example of Trump’s “incoherent” economic argument by noting that the billionaire has built his populist appeal around leveling the playing field for lower-income Americans, even though she said his tax plan gives a $3 trillion break to millionaires and billionaires over the next 10 years.
