Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Anaheim on May 25, in Anaheim, California. | Getty Clinton: Trump doesn't deserve 'much credit' for vet donations

Donald Trump doesn’t deserve much credit for raising and disbursing nearly $6 million for veterans groups, Hillary Clinton said Tuesday.

“Well, I think the problem here is the difference between what Donald Trump says and what Donald Trump does,” Clinton told CNN’s Jake Tapper during a phone interview. “He's bragged for months about raising $6 million for veterans and donating a million dollars himself. But it took a reporter to shame him into actually making his contribution and getting the money to veterans. Look, I'm glad he finally did, but I don't know that he should get much credit for that.”


Trump railed against the media Tuesday morning during a 40-minute news conference in which he detailed how he has raised $5.6 million for dozens of veterans groups. Clinton, meanwhile, hasn’t held a news conference in roughly five or six months.

“Oh, I’m sure we will,” Clinton said, when pressed on whether she planned to hold a news conference, as Trump often does.

Clinton added that she was “shocked” to learn from her staff that she’s done nearly 300 interviews in 2016. “And they’re not even sure they captured all the ones that I’ve done,” she said. “I believe that we do and we should answer questions. Of course I’m going to in many, many different kinds of settings.”

But a good portion of the interview was spent on Trump, who suggested that he would have preferred to keep his veterans donations private “because I don’t think it’s anybody’s business.”

“I raised close to $6 million. It’ll probably be over that amount when it’s all said and done, but as of this moment it’s $5.6 million,” the real estate mogul told reporters.





Clinton particularly seized on Trump's harping on the media. He lobbed both broad attacks (“We have to read pretty libelous stories — or certainly close — in the newspapers”) and specifics ones, calling Tom Llamas of ABC News "a sleaze" and Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard "a loser."

“I believe that it’s important to continue to, you know, speak to the press as I’m doing right now and to understand that his attacking everybody — fellow Republicans, Democrats, the press, you just name it, he attacks everybody — is a recipe for gridlock in Washington,” Clinton said. “And that’s what we’ve gotta break and get away with. You know, he seems to believe or at least is demonstrating that insulting and attack is his mode of operations and, you know, I just don’t think that’s going to cut it if you wanna actually produce results for the American people and not only lead at home but lead the world.”