Trump: Clinton isn't qualified to be president
Donald Trump’s response to Hillary Clinton’s charge that he wasn’t qualified to be president? Right back at you.
Trump kicked off Friday with a series of tweets using his favorite nickname (“Crooked Hillary”) and questioning her qualifications.
Trump and members of his campaign — in an apparent attempt to divide the Democratic Party — have started to use questions Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had asked over Clinton's qualifications. This is a strange Trump-Sanders team-up — which Sanders has said really is not benefiting him.
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Trump said his early-morning Twitter rant was in response to Clinton’s comments.
“It's sort of interesting because I talk about Hillary's bad judgment. I actually said that this morning to a lot of followers. And a lot of people that agree with me,” Trump said. “But she's got horrible judgment.”
“What’s the worst example of her, you say she has horrible judgment?” host Joe Scarborough asked.
“Well, I could tell you a lot of examples, but one of them is Libya,” Trump said. Later in the show he said he would have stayed out of Libya — which isn’t exactly true.
“I can’t believe what our country is doing,” Trump said in February 2011, according to BuzzFeed. “Qaddafi in Libya is killing thousands of people, nobody knows how bad it is, and we’re sitting around we have soldiers all over the Middle East, and we’re not bringing them in to stop this horrible carnage and that’s what it is: It’s a carnage.”
Trump also said during the interview that he had no qualms about calling the missing Egypt Air plane a terrorist attack first thing Thursday morning — long before authorities had broached the topic.
Host Mika Brzezinski said that some people may call it a rash tweet and that it “was very much generating hatred, focusing on the hatred and fear that terrorism brings to the American people. And maybe perhaps that first tweet ...” she started.
Trump jumped in: “Well, you feel that way, but I — I said another plane was blown up and I can practically guarantee who blew it up. And another plane went down.”
“And let me tell you, the mindset of a weak Hillary Clinton, which is four more years of Obama, is not going to do it for our country,” he added.
Trump also said that he despite comments earlier this week that he and the British prime minister may not “have a good relations,” things would be just fine. In fact, David Cameron invited him to come visit and he just “might do it.”
Later Friday Clinton's Campaign Chairman John Podesta issued a broad statement attacking Trump's comments over the course of the morning.
"Every time Donald Trump opens his mouth, he makes it even more clear that he doesn't have the qualifications or the temperament or to be our Commander-in-Chief. His interviews this morning were especially revealing, and even unhinged at times," Podesta said and listed off a series off what he saw as failures in Trump's interview. "He once again claimed that he can't share his great foreign policy ideas because he wants unpredictability. He aggressively defended his Muslim ban. He lied about his own record, claiming he opposed the Libya intervention and Iraq War -- both of which he supported at the outset. And he demonstrated once again his dangerous penchant for going ballistic on anyone who disapproves of his proposals."
"This is not how presidents behave. We can't afford to have a Commander-in-Chief who has no understanding of foreign policy, who has no coherent agenda, and who wants to go to war every time someone says a mean thing about him," Podesta continued.