Trump Tells Voters Clinton ‘Gets Rich Making You Poor’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the Trump Soho Hotel in New York, Wednesday, June 22, 2016. Trump's address at his hotel in New York's SoHo neighborhood marks his official opening salvo again... Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the Trump Soho Hotel in New York, Wednesday, June 22, 2016. Trump's address at his hotel in New York's SoHo neighborhood marks his official opening salvo against Hillary Clinton, the prospective Democratic presidential nominee, in the general election. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) MORE LESS
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Donald Trump went after Hillary Clinton’s support for international trade deals in a Wednesday speech, telling a crowd of New York supporters that “she gets rich making you poor.”

“Hillary Clinton gave China millions of our best jobs, and effectively let China completely rebuild itself,” Trump said in a prepared speech delivered via teleprompter. “In return, Hillary Clinton got rich!”

Trump cited the conservative author and activist Peter Schweizer’s book “Clinton Cash,” to which “7-8 factual corrections” were made after publication, as proof of his claims that Hillary and Bill Clinton “used the State Department to enrich their family at America’s expense.”

Trump framed his “America first” worldview as a rebuttal to the Clintons’ globalism, claiming he would promote U.S. manufacturing, oppose international trade dealsand strengthen control over America’s intellectual property.

“She sold out our workers, and our country, for Beijing,” the real estate mogul said of the former secretary of state.

In a Tuesday speech attacking Trump’s economic policies and business practices, Clinton charged that her Republican rival was hiding something by refusing to release his taxes.

“You have to ask yourself, what’s he afraid of?” she asked, suggesting that he may have avoided paying taxes. “Or maybe he isn’t as rich as he claims.”

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  1. Okay, now Trump is Karl Marx ?

  2. No he is the same old asshole!

  3. Filled with lies from end to end.

  4. Avatar for meta meta says:

    It is impossible to tell the difference between a Trump accusation and his actual playbook.

  5. This from the guy who wanted the real estate bubble to burst so that he could make money off the misery of others. Give me a break.

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