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# Read Donald Trump's Speech Criticizing Hillary Clinton on Foreign Policy

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_Published 2016-06-22. Donald Trump moderated his tone even as he doubled down on the substance of his attacks on Hillary Clinton, accusing the former Secretary of State of outright corruption_


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## Ryan Teague Beckwith


Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:42 PM UTCPublished: Jun 22, 2016 3:14 PM UTC

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## Ryan Teague Beckwith


Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:42 PM UTCPublished: Jun 22, 2016 3:14 PM UTC

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump criticized Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on foreign policy in a speech in New York Wednesday.

Here is a transcript of the speech as delivered.

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## Transcript

Hilary Clinton and as you know she most people know she is a world class liar. [ APPLAUSE ] The other candidate in this race has spent her entire life making money for special interests and I'll tell you she has made plenty of money for them and she has been taking plenty of money out for herself. Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and even theft. She ran the state department like her own personal hedge fund, doing favors for oppressive regimes and many others, and really, many, many others. In exchange for cash, pure and simple, folks, pure and simple. The Hillary Clinton foreign policy has cost America thousands of lives and trillions and trillions of dollars and unleashed ISIS across the world.

No secretary of state has been more wrong More often and in more places than Hillary Clinton. [ APPLAUSE ] Her decisions spread death, destruction and terrorism everywhere she touch. [ APPLAUSE ] She believes she's entitled to the office Her campaign slogan is, I'm with her. You know what my response is to that? I'm with you, the American People.

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