'We’re not friends': Hillary Clinton takes aim at Donald Trump for being 'divisive' and 'mean-spirited'
In November, Trump said Hillary Clinton did not have strength or stamina to be president and he called her the worst US secretary of state, a post she held from 2009 to 2013.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wants to set the record straight on Donald Trump: “We were not friends.”
“We knew each other, obviously, in New York,” Clinton, a former US senator from New York, said in excerpts of a People magazine interview released on Wednesday. “I knew a lot of people.”
Trump, the real estate billionaire whose standing as Republican front runner was dented by a second-placed finish in the Iowa caucuses on Monday, had long touted his friendship with Bill and Hillary Clinton. People cited a 2014 Fox News interview in which Trump said he liked both Clintons “a lot”.
We knew each other, obviously, in New York. I knew a lot of people
But the Clintons, who attended Trump’s 2005 wedding, were fair game on the campaign trail. In November, Trump said Hillary Clinton did not have strength or stamina to be president and he called her the worst US secretary of state, a post she held from 2009 to 2013.
When Clinton denounced Trump last month as using inflammatory rhetoric, saying he has “demonstrated a penchant for sexism,” Trump turned the phrase against her, using it to refer to Bill Clinton’s sexual scandals as president.
Trump’s blunt and sometime outrageous style and comments about Hispanics, women, Muslims and his rivals for the nomination have set much of the tone for the Republican race.
Clinton has accused him of being divisive and a bully.