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Trump lobs oppo smorgasbord at Clinton Trump lobs oppo smorgasbord at Clinton

Donald Trump tried out a menu of attacks on Hillary Clinton on Tuesday morning, hitting her for scandals past and present, being asleep at 3 a.m. and promising to make half of her Cabinet women.

"The only thing she's got is the woman card," Trump said in an interview with "Fox & Friends."

"That's all she's got," he said, describing Clinton's promise to stack her Cabinet with women "pandering."

"You know, it's a weak card in her hand and in another person's hands it could be a powerful card," he added.

Trump said that he would have the "most capable people," including women, in his Cabinet.

While remarking that he would "love to see a woman president," Clinton is the "wrong person" and is a "disaster."

Trump then referred to Clinton's famous "3 a.m. phone call" campaign ad from 2008, which asked voters which candidate they would trust to handle an emergency in the wee hours of the morning.

Trump, apparently, would be awake at that time, judging by his response, and he appeared to refer to reports that Clinton eventually retired on the night of the 2012 Benghazi attacks.

"Remember the famous call at 3:00 in the morning? She was sleeping. She was sleeping. It was her ad, what would you like at 3:00 in the morning? Well, the phone rang, she was sleeping," Trump remarked. "She would be a terrible president."

Adding that Clinton has "nothing else to play" but the "woman card," Trump remarked that she is "guilty as hell on the emails."

"You got Whitewater," Trump said, referring to the decades-old real-estate scandal that shook up Bill Clinton's first term in the White House.

"Her whole life has been crooked," Trump continued. "You look at the [Clinton] Foundation, the whole life."