--- title: Hillary Clinton Asks Donald Trump 20 Questions on Twitter description: Clinton questioned whether the billionaire could place America before his business interests. canonical: https://time.com/4493710/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-questions-twitter/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-14T18:49:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-07T06:46:52.363Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Plays 20 Questions With Donald Trump on Twitter og:description: Clinton questioned whether the billionaire could place America before his business interests og:url: https://time.com/4493710/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-questions-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt46ea4f240bd78552/6988a527196cf4336903d1ac/clinton-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2857 og:image:height: 1607 og:image:alt: clinton-trump-national-security og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Plays 20 Questions With Donald Trump on Twitter twitter:description: Clinton questioned whether the billionaire could place America before his business interests twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt46ea4f240bd78552/6988a527196cf4336903d1ac/clinton-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Plays 20 Questions With Donald Trump on Twitter > Sponsored content. 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The Democratic presidential nominee was referencing a _Newsweek_ [cover story](http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/donald-trump-foreign-business-deals-national-security-498081.html) arguing that the Trump Organization’s international business relationships could make it hard for a President Trump to conduct foreign policy. In [a post](https://www.hillaryclinton.com/feed/20-questions-donald-trump-needs-to-answer-about-his-business-and-the-national-security-risk-it-poses/?utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=tw&utm%5Fcampaign=20160914feed%5F20quest) on her website, Clinton said that Trump’s career was “full of sketchy relationships with foreign countries.” The posts comes amid a [debate over Trump’s tax returns](http://time.com/4479862/donald-trump-tax-returns-think-people-dont-care/), which he has declined to make public, citing a pending IRS audit as prohibiting him from releasing his taxes. In her tweets, Clinton questioned what Trump would make a priority—America or his personal investments. > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/776097711082921984) > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/776099941999607808) ## Transcript [00:04] I beat Hillary Clinton in many polls, the queue poll just [00:07] came out. America didn't stop being great. We have to [00:09] make it whole again. I'm the only one that beats Hillary [00:12] Clinton. I have not started on Hillary yet. Believe me, I [00:15] will start soon. [ APPLAUSE ] I haven't even started. If [00:18] you don't get an actual check From the Mexican [00:22] government for 8 or 10 or $ 12 billion, whatever it will [00:25] cost. How are you going to make them pay for the [00:28] wall? I will. He's talking about a [00:32] very tall wall. And the wall just got ten feet taller. That [00:36] would run the entire border. Paid for by Mexico. That [00:41] he would somehow get the Mexican government to pay [00:45] for. We have at least 11 million people in this country [00:48] that came in illegally. They will go out. You know it's [00:51] just Fantasy. [ NOISE ] I would work quickly to present [00:56] to the Congress my plans for raising the minimum [00:59] wage. Taxes too high, wages too high. Well, you know [01:03] both Bill and I have been very blessed, neither of us [01:06] came from wealthy families, and we've worked really [01:08] hard our entire lives. I took one million dollars and I [01:11] turned it into Okay, one million ten billion dollars. I've [01:14] come up with a tax plan that many, many people like [01:17] Now- Very. [ NOISE ] They may not care much about [01:20] their lives, but they do care, believe it or not, about [01:23] their family's lives. [ APPLAUSE ] A diplomacy is not [01:25] about getting to the perfect solution- We need tough [01:29] people, we need toughness. It's about how you [01:31] balance the risk. I would bring back water boarding. [01:34] And I'd bring back a helluva lot worse, than what we're [01:37] boarding. We will not send American combats groups [01:39] back to Syria or Iraq, that is off the table. We talk [01:42] about Iran and that's one of the worst deals ever made [01:46] I'm asking people to support me because I think I'm [01:49] the most qualified, most experienced and ready [01:51] person to be the President. If I'm elected to be [01:54] President We will win and we will win and we will win. [01:59] Thank you. 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