Hillary Clinton dismissed her Republican opponent’s “stunt” to raise money for veterans in a Tuesday CNN interview, saying it proves “the difference between what Donald Trump says and what Donald Trump does.”
“He’s bragged for months about raising $6 million for veterans and donating a million dollars himself,” Clinton told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “But it took a reporter to shame him into actually making his contribution and getting the money to veterans. So look, I’m glad he finally did but I don’t know that he should get much credit for that.”
Trump skipped out on a January GOP debate in order to raise money for veterans’ charities but never announced how much the fundraiser took in or where the funds were going until The Washington Post published a story questioning his claims last week. The Associated Press reported that about half of the 41 organizations to which Trump’s campaign donated received checks in the past week, typically dated May 24, the day the Post’s story was published.
In a testy press conference at Trump Tower on Tuesday, Trump announced that he’d raised $5.6 million—just under the $6 million he initially said the event earned—and insisted that journalists “should be ashamed of themselves” for asking where the money went.
“Instead of being like, ‘Thank you very much, Mr. Trump,’ or ‘Trump did a good job,’ everyone’s saying, ‘Who got it? Who got it? Who got it?’ And you make me look very bad,” Trump told the assembled reporters. “I have never received such bad publicity for doing such a good job.”
Trump also knocked Clinton, saying she’s given “nothing” to US veterans.
Clinton waved away the accusation in her CNN interview, saying she has donated to veterans charities, raised funds for a rehabilitation facility for wounded soldiers, and worked on the Armed Services Committee as a senator to increase death benefits for families of those killed in combat.
“So much of the work that I’ve done has meant tens of millions of dollars in increased benefits to veterans and their families as well as a personal commitment,” the former secretary of state claimed.
Now, THAT’S our Hillary!
It’s like in a prize fight when one fighter is making lots of annoying little jabs, then opens up for a second and the other steps in and POW, lands a solid shot with a lot of weight behind it. It doesn’t take many of that second kind to end a fight.
Yep. Anyone who still thinks “she doesn’t have what it takes to take on Trump” ain’t watching.
Glass jaw and thin skin go together. He’s not going to go the 12 rounds.
I’m no campaign expert but kinda wish Hillary was more visible currently, even while stories like this one make trump look laughable and petty (who didn’t already know that?). Can’t help imagining…the same day trump bashes the press and declares a judge “a known mexican” (or whatever offensive way it was phrased) it would be pretty great to see her in solidarity with that judge in Arizona, or New Mexico or Denver, in front of a cheering crowd and going hard at him and the attacks on the judge. Might resonate more with her needed voters than a chat with Tapper.
EDITED FOR typops…aargh