Perhaps Donald Trump didn't always deal in divisive rhetoric. In an interview that aired Friday on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Hillary Clinton said that the Trump she once knew was a much different man than the "offensive" person she's seeing on the presidential campaign trail right now.
"I didn't know him that well, but I did know him," the Democratic presidential candidate said. "It's been most surprising to me to see somebody who was affable and was good company and had a reputation of being kind of bigger than life really traffic in a lot of the prejudice and paranoia. And some of the comments that he's made, which have been so divisive and mean-spirited, doesn't quite fit with what I thought I knew about him."
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