Clinton Fires Back: Trump Going After Me Because He Has No Substance
RALEIGH, N.C. (CBSNewYork/AP)-- Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump is going after her personally because he doesn't have any answers on the substance of the campaign.
Clinton says at a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, that Trump is pedaling "outlandish lies'' and is trying to "distract us.'' She says, "That's why he's attacking my faith. Sigh.'' She says he is attacking "a philanthropic foundation'' that saves and improves lives around the world while his business products rely on poor people around the globe.
The former secretary of state says the nation can't allow Trump to "bankrupt America'' the way he "bankrupted his casinos.'' Clinton says the nation needs to "write a new chapter in the American dream and it can't be Chapter 11,'' a reference to Trump's use of the bankruptcy laws in the past.
Clinton outlined her plans for the U.S. economy, hours after Donald Trump questioned her credentials to be president.
She said the nation needs better-paying jobs, debt-free college, steps to allow companies to share their profits with workers, ensuring Wall Street and corporations pay their fair share in taxes and policies to help families.
Clinton says the nation needs to "make sure that our economy works for everyone, not just for the rich or the well-connected.''
The former secretary of state says she is offering an alternative to Trump, whom she says is spouting "reckless ideas that will run up our debt and cause another economic crash.''
Clinton also invoked her religion a day after Trump questioned it.
The presumptive presidential nominee told supporters that, "As we Methodists like to say: do all the good you can for all the people you can in all the ways you can.'' That's a quote credited to John Wesley, the founder of Methodism.
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Clinton made the comments following Trump's scathing critique of her foreign policy record and her qualifications to be president.
According to video of the closed-door speech, Trump told evangelicals in New York that the public doesn't know "anything about Hillary in terms of religion.''
Trump also launched a broad rebuke of his presidential rival Hillary Clinton Wednesday, accusing her of being "a world class liar" who personally profited from her tenure at the State Department. "She gets rich making you poor," Trump said.
Seeking to steady his campaign after a difficult stretch, the presumptive Republican nominee cast himself as the White House candidate best positioned to address Americans' economic interests.
In a speech Wednesday at his hotel in SoHo, Trump said the country's problems "can only be fixed by me," and not Clinton.
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