Clinton On Trump Attacks: I’ve Dealt With Men Who Are ‘Off The Reservation’

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Friday she was used to the kind of personal attacks she’s sustained from men like GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, who she referred to as “off the reservation.”

Asked during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper about Trump’s “crooked Hillary” nickname, Clinton said types of comments from men were common in her experience.

“I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get ‘off the reservation’ in the way they behave and how they speak,” Clinton said. “I’m not going to deal with their temper tantrums or efforts to try to provoke me.”

The former secretary of state didn’t specify who else she was referring to.

Trump and Clinton both have shifted their rhetoric toward the general election fight in recent days. When Tapper asked about Trump’s now infamous “woman card” attacks on her, she chalked them up to “bullying.”

“He can say whatever he wants to say about me, I could really care less,” Clinton said. “I’m going to stand up for what I think the American people need and want in the next president.”

Clinton also referenced a report that Trump’s camp planned to go after supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) who it didn’t think would vote for Clinton in a general election, saying she doesn’t see how that could work.

“I don’t see how the calculation adds up,” Clinton said. “If you don’t believe in raising minimum wage, you don’t think the wages are enough in America. If you demean women, you don’t believe equal pay is important. If you have a kind of reckless, loose, dangerous view of foreign policy, I don’t think that’s very appealing.”

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  1. Hillary won’t rise to Trump’s bait—but she’ll goad Trump into saying things that will help her win.

  2. “off the reservation” ? Really? Could not come up with a better phrase than that?

    I foresee a some walking of that phrase back, if not an apology for such insensitive language.

  3. “He can say whatever he wants to say about me, I could really care less,” Clinton said. "

    And there you have it…she is almost egging him to keep it up…I can guarantee they have polling
    data that the more he does it the more an independent voter or a GOP woman voter dislikes it and him…

  4. For those who can’t see the sexism, I’ve done a bit of editing…

    “I have a lot of experience dealing with women who sometimes get ‘off the reservation’ in the way they behave and how they speak,” Clinton said. “I’m not going to deal with their temper tantrums or efforts to try to provoke me.”

  5. The Florida idiot that said Hillary would “go down like Monica Lewinski” in a debate was definitely living in Disneyland. When Hillary gets through with Trump in this election he’ll look like road kill. It’s a classic case of bringing a knife to a gunfight.

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