Donald Trump tears into Hillary Clinton during attack speech

In a speech largely focused on attacking his presumptive opponent for the presidency, Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton "volcanic and impulsive."
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Donald Trump tore into Hillary Clinton for being greedy as well as "volcanic and impulsive" in a speech Wednesday from his New York SoHo hotel. "[Clinton's] campaign slogan is 'I'm with Her.' You know what my response to that is? 'I'm with you, the American people,'" Trump said:

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Trump slammed Clinton's record as secretary of state, claiming that her "tryout for the presidency has produced one deadly foreign policy disaster after another." To put a finer point on it, Trump added, "In just four years, Secretary Clinton managed to almost single-handedly destabilize the entire Middle East."

In addition to her decisions in Libya, Trump accused Clinton of making secrets vulnerable to America's enemies by using a private server while in office. "While we may not know what is in those deleted emails, our enemies probably do. So they probably now have a blackmail file over someone who wants to be president of the United States. This fact alone disqualifies her from the presidency," he said.

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Trump also painted Clinton as getting "rich [while] making you poor," claiming she "ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund." He slammed her for giving speeches "to lobbyists, CEOs, and foreign governments."

"They totally own her, and that will never, ever, change," Trump said, "including if she became president. God help us."

You can read all of Trump's prepared remarks here.

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