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# Read Hillary Clinton's Press Conference About the Foreign Policy Forum

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## Video: Hillary Clinton Criticizes Donald Trump

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_Published 2016-09-08. The moment contributes to an ongoing argument from the Clinton campaign that Trump lacks the temperament and discipline to serve as president._


by 

[Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/)


## Ryan Teague Beckwith


Sep 8, 2016 5:29 PM UTC

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[Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/)


## Ryan Teague Beckwith


Sep 8, 2016 5:29 PM UTC

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton [criticized Donald Trump’s answers](http://time.com/4483924/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-security-briefing/) at the NBC commander in chief forum in a press conference Thursday morning.

Speaking in front of her campaign jet on a tarmac in White Plains, New York, Clinton argued that Trump was “totally inappropriate and undisciplined” when he discussed a recent classified intelligence briefing.

“I would never comment on any aspect of an intelligence briefing that I received,” she said.

Read a full transcript of the press conference.

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## Transcript

Let me be clear. Last night was yet another test, and Donald Trump failed yet again. We saw more evidence that he is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander in chief. He trash talked American generals. Saying they've been, quote, reduced to rubble. He suggested he would fire them and replace them with his hand picked generals. He attacked dozens of former flag officers by saying that, quote, we've been losing for us for a long time. That's how he talks about distinguished men and women who have spent their lives serving our country, sacrificing for us. That's how he would act as commander in chief.

Meanwhile bizarrely once again he praised Russia's strongman Vladimir Putin Even taking the astonishing step of suggesting that he prefers the Russian president to our American president. Now, that is not just unpatriotic, and insulting to the people of our country, as well as to our commander in chief, It is scary because it suggests he will let Putin do whatever Putin wants to do. And then, make excuses for him. One thing you didn't hear from Trump last night is Any plan to take on ISIS, one of the biggest threats facing our country. He says his plan is still a secret, but the truth is he simply doesn't have one.

And that's not only dangerous it should be disqualifying.

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