Hillary Clinton, appearing on The View Tuesday, previewed what would likely be central to her general election stump speech in a Clinton-Trump matchup by ticking off many of Donald Trump's most notable insults, starting from day one of his campaign.
How good was her campaign memory? Here’s the transcript, annotated:
“For me, the way he’s conducted his campaign, the things he’s said -- and he has insulted everybody and he has demeaned everybody,” she said. “He started on his very first day saying that all Mexican immigrants were rapists and criminals, right?”
She was just a little off. Trump said they "are bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
“And then he moved on to attack people with disabilities.”
He said he didn’t mean to after he mocked a reporter with a disability in November.
“He attacked John McCain, who’s a friend of mine and said he wasn’t really a war hero, and I mean he was a POW for years and he was so brave.”
True. Trump in July said: "I like people that weren't captured, OK? I hate to tell you."
“And then of course going after American Muslims and really drawing these lines.”
There is that, of course. He called in November for “surveillance of certain mosques” after the terrorist attacks in Paris in November. He also endorsed requiring American Muslims to register in a tracking database, before later backing off the idea.
“And his attitude about what he has said about so many women, the way he treated Megyn Kelly who is a superb journalist, right?”
This started when the Fox News host questioned him about his treatment of women last summer and hasn’t really let up since.
“I just don’t understand what he thinks is the role of somebody running for president,” Clinton wrapped up. “I don’t think it is to scapegoat people, divide people, engage in this kind of prejudice and paranoia, and so it’s not only women… who should be concerned, it's everybody, because of the way that he conducts himself.”
View co-host Joy Behar then questioned Clinton about why she thinks Trump is doing so well. He has won 19 states so far, compared to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz who has won eight.
"Well, he does have a lot of people who are voting in the Republican primary, but to put it into broader perspective, I have more votes than he does. I have a million more votes," she said. "I don’t think the vast majority of Americans, let's hope, want to reward that kind of behavior and that sort of really hateful rhetoric."
