Chelsea Clinton: Trump Attacks My Dad To Distract From His Lack Of Knowledge

Chelsea Clinton hit back following Donald Trump’s remark that he stopped himself from saying “extremely rough” things about the Clinton family after seeing that she was in the audience for the first presidential debate, telling Cosmopolitan that was Trump’s way of distracting from key issues.

Trump revealed after the debate that the “extremely rough” things he referred to onstage were former President Bill Clinton’s infidelities.

“Well, my reaction to that is just what my reaction has been kind of every time Trump has gone after my mom or my family, which is that it’s a distraction from his inability to talk about what’s actually at stake in this election and to offer concrete, comprehensive proposals about the economy, or our public school system, or debt-free college, or keeping our country safe and Americans safe here at home and around the world,” Chelsea Clinton told Cosmopolitan in an interview published Wednesday.

She went on to say that the Clintons are used to attacks of that nature and that she’s more concerned with the average Americans who find themselves the targets of Trump’s vitriol.

“What I find most troubling by far are Trump’s — and we talked about this when you interviewed me the night before the Iowa caucus — are Trump’s continued, relentless attacks on whole swaths of our country and even our global community: women, Muslims, Americans with disabilities, a Gold Star family,” she told the magazine. “I mean, that, to me, is far more troubling than whatever his most recent screed against my mom or my family.”