WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton is set to unleash a major foreign policy attack on Donald Trump, using a speech in San Diego to cast the Republican as unqualified and dangerous.
The former secretary of state, who has repeatedly called Trump a “loose cannon,” will seek Thursday to contrast her foreign policy experience with Trump’s. Foreign policy adviser Jake Sullivan says Clinton would make clear how high the stakes are in the race, as well as share her “larger vision of who we are, what we’re all about as a country.”
“She is going to make clear why Donald Trump is simply unqualified to be commander in chief,” Sullivan says, adding that the speech “will go into specifics in a very direct and clear way about what makes Donald Trump unfit, both in terms of temperament and ideas. This is as full-throated and full-bodied a case as you will have seen from anyone on the danger that Donald Trump poses.”
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stands on stage with musician Bon Jovi, left, and Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, while speaking during a campaign stop at the Newark campus of Rutgers University, Wednesday, June 1, 2016, in Newark, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
During an appearance in Newark, New Jersey Wednesday, Clinton assailed Trump over his past statements, criticizing him for proposing to ban Muslims from entering the country, for advocating the use of torture and for saying other countries should acquire nuclear weapons.
— AP
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