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NEW YORK — His campaign in turmoil, Donald Trump sought to get back on
track Wednesday with a familiar tactic: attacking Hillary Clinton.
Clinton is "a world-class liar" who has "perfected the politics of
personal profit and even theft," Trump said during a heavily promoted
speech he delivered as members of the GOP continued to raise questions
about his campaign organization and its ability to raise money.
In a remarkably negative speech against a presidential rival, the
presumptive Republican nominee said Clinton "may be the most corrupt
person ever to seek the presidency of the United States," a line that drew
that drew a standing ovation from supporters packed into a meeting room at
a Trump hotel in Manhattan.
Echoing attacks he has made throughout the campaign, Trump again claimed
the former secretary of State has used her position to solicit
contributions to the Clinton Foundation she sponsors along with former
president Bill Clinton. Trump accused the foundation of accepting money
from foreign governments that brutalize women and gays, and he said "she
ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund."
Reading his speech from a teleprompter, Trump also faulted Clinton over
the economy, free trade and some of her campaign contributions. Citing a
string of contributors across the world, he said donors "totally own her."
While Trump tries to make the fall election about Clinton, the Democratic
candidate seeks to do the reverse, casting Trump as wholly unqualified for
the presidency. "He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that
requires knowledge, stability, and immense responsibility," Clinton said
this week.
As for Trump's attack speech, Clinton campaign spokesperson Glen Caplin
said Trump offered only "more hypocritical lies and nutty conspiracy
theories," all in an effort to distract voters from his campaign problems.
At a rally in Raleigh, N.C., following Trump's remarks, Clinton said,
"“He’s going after me personally because he has no answers on the
substance.”
The Clinton team also noted in a statement that independent fact-checking
organizations have frequently given Trump's statements failing grades.
Trump's speech in New York City came two days after he fired campaign
manager Corey Lewandowski,
The nominee-in-waiting's anti-Clinton speech — initially scheduled for
last week, but delayed so that Trump could respond to the Orlando
terrorist attack — is part of an attempt by the real estate mogul to move
on after bad reports about the state of his campaign.
Hours after Lewandowski's dismissal, the Trump campaign filed a financial
report showing it had only $1.3 million in the bank at the start of June;
Clinton reported $42 million, one of the biggest financial advantages in
the history of American politics.
Republicans continued to voice anxiety about the state of Trump's
campaign, citing what they described as its small size, reluctance to
invest in micro-targeting and other get-out-the-vote techniques and lack
of message discipline.
Tom Rath, a Republican convention delegate from New Hampshire who is
pledged to former Trump opponent John Kasich, said Trump's campaign
trouble is not just a "process story."
It "guts his strongest argument — that he is an accomplished executive who
makes large organizations work," Rath said.
Republican consultant Bruce Haynes, founding partner of Washington-based
Purple Strategies, said the Trump campaign seems to be realizing that it
has a different job in the general election than it did during the
primaries, and "they have to make drastic changes fast."
Clinton on Tuesday delivered another speech describing Trump as
temperamentally unfit for the presidency, focusing on economic polices
that she said would lead to a recession.
As she did in an earlier speech hitting the Republican candidate over
foreign policy, Clinton said, “every day we see how reckless and careless
Trump is. He’s proud of it."
David Brock, who heads a pro-Clinton political organization called Correct
the Record, said in a memo to reporters that Trump's attacks on Clinton
rely on "right-wing books" that have been discredited. He described
Wednesday's speech as an attempt to divert attention from his own
troubles.
"Donald Trump's presidential campaign is melting down," Brock said.
In his speech Wednesday, Trump said he has built a multi-billion-dollar
business, and "that's a talent our country desperately needs."
Attacking Clinton's stewardship of the State Department, Trump cited the
rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the deadly attack on a U.S.
facility in Benghazi, Libya, that killed a U.S. ambassador, and her use of
private email that is currently the subject of investigation, and, he
suggested, could have been hacked by the nation's enemies.
The result has been "one deadly foreign policy disaster after another,"
the Republican candidate said.
Trump also cited a letter from a woman whose son was killed by an
undocumented immigrant, saying she wrote that Clinton "needs to go to
prison to pay for the crimes that she has already committed against our
country."
Trump cast the fall campaign as one pitting "the people" against "the
politicians" who have "rigged" the system in their favor, and are
symbolized by both Clintons. He also mocked the Clinton campaign slogan
"I'm with her," saying instead, "I'm with you, the American people."
Reciting his favorite campaign themes, Trump linked his opponent to open
immigration refugee policies, bad trade deals, President Obama's health
care plan, and the weakening of the military, and he pledged a new
approach on all of those issues.
Trump and associates have described Lewandowski's firing as part of an
effort to re-orient his team toward the challenges of a fall campaign.
They also downplayed the fundraising report, saying they have raised
millions in June and that Trump can put in his own money if necessary.
Republican critics said Trump's problems are self-inflicted, and they
still hope to somehow head off his nomination at next month's convention
in Cleveland.
GOP strategist Liz Mair, who has headed up a "Never Trump" group, said
"convention delegates — and indeed Trump himself — ought to be looking for
a way out of this, whether that means delegates throwing out the rule
book, or Trump withdrawing and going back to running his business."
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