--- title: Hillary Clinton Hits Donald Trump on Business: Transcript description: Here's what Hillary Clinton said in her speech about Donald Trump's business record in Atlantic City, N.J. on Wednesday canonical: https://time.com/4395236/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-speech-transcript-atlantic-city/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-06T18:13:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:58.496Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Hillary Clinton's Speech on Donald Trump's Atlantic City Business Record og:description: "Everything falls apart, people get hurt and Donald gets paid" og:url: https://time.com/4395236/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-speech-transcript-atlantic-city/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb22d4ec61b8a9abe/69889ad4524fc0fe7adf8a09/hillary-clinton-atlantic-city-transcript.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5023 og:image:height: 2825 og:image:alt: US-VOTE-DEMOCRATS-CLINTON og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Hillary Clinton's Speech on Donald Trump's Atlantic City Business Record twitter:description: "Everything falls apart, people get hurt and Donald gets paid" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb22d4ec61b8a9abe/69889ad4524fc0fe7adf8a09/hillary-clinton-atlantic-city-transcript.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Hillary Clinton's Speech on Donald Trump's Atlantic City Business Record > Sponsored content. 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Hillary Clinton waves to members of the Atlantic City casino workers union outside the Taj Mahal Casino after an event in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on July 6, 2016.Kena Betancur—AFP/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jul 6, 2016 6:13 PM UTC Hillary Clinton [attacked Donald Trump’s business record](http://time.com/4394958/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-atlantic-city-speech/) in Atlantic City, N.J. on Wednesday, using the backdrop of one of Trump’s [former casinos](http://time.com/4392110/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-atlantic-city/) to criticize his [business practices](http://time.com/3988970/donald-trump-business/). “In America, we don’t begrudge people being successful—that’s part of the American dream—but not if they get rich by destroying other people in the process,” she said. 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