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 "He is a loose cannon, and loose cannons tend to misfire," Clinton
said in an interview with CNN, citing Trump stances including an
allegation that climate change was a Chinese hoax.
Clinton, a former secretary of state, said Trump would have to offer
policy specifics in ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election and
criticized him for his positions on issues including nuclear weapons
and abortion.
"He makes these grand statements and grand accusations," Clinton
said of the real estate magnate and former reality TV star. "At some
point when you're running for president, you actually have to put a
little meat on the bones. You've got to tell people what it is
you're going to do and how you're going to do it."
 Clinton lost the Democratic primary contest in Indiana on Tuesday
but still looks set to win her party's nomination, leading her
rival, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, by more than 800 delegates.
Trump's win in Indiana on Tuesday pushed his rivals out of the race
and left him as the presumptive nominee.
In a preview of the likely general election battle, Clinton laughed
when asked if she was ready to take on Trump, saying: "Oh, please."
"This is to me a classic case of a blustering, bullying guy who has
knocked out of the way all the Republicans because they were just
dumbfounded," she said.
Clinton said she knew how to run a campaign against Trump and took a
swipe at Trump's 16 Republican presidential rivals who started out
in the 2016 campaign.
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"They didn't know how to deal with him," Clinton said. "They
couldn't take him on the issues because they basically agreed with
them. And they didn't know how to counterpunch."
Asked how "scorched-earth" the campaign was likely to be, she
replied: "You know, he’s the one making that decision. ... He’s the
one who’s run the campaign insulting people, demeaning women,
degrading people with disabilities, talking about keeping Muslims
out of the country, he’s the one that’s been running that kind of
very negative, aggressive, bullying campaign.
"I’m going to keep staying on the kind of campaign I’m running," she
said.
(Reporting by Megan Cassella and Doina Chiacu; Additional reporting
by Tim Ahmann and Eric Walsh; Editing by Frances Kerry and Peter
Cooney)
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