Clinton camp: Trump 'muted, 'low-energy' in teleprompter speech

Donald Trump was "a little muted," even "low energy" during his celebratory remarks Tuesday night, a top aide for Hillary Clinton remarked mischievously on Wednesday.

Making the rounds first on CNN and subsequently on MSNBC, campaign manager Robby Mook said that the presumptive Republican nominee's vow to expose the Clintons' alleged malfeasance with respect to the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton's position within the State Department in a speech next week, "is classic Donald Trump."


"We all know he's a bully. Albeit last night he was a little muted and low energy as a result of using a teleprompter," Mook told MSNBC's José Díaz-Balart.

Trump has a complicated recent history with the teleprompter, though he used one Tuesday night and has done so previously despite also remarking on multiple occasions that the speech aid should be banned for presidential candidates.

"But this is what he's going to do. He's going to try to use personal attacks and bullying to try to intimidate us. Secretary Clinton is not going to be intimidated. She is going to use his words to show voters what a threat he poses, that his erratic behavior, that his temperament make him completely unfit to be our president and commander in chief," Mook said, ticking through a list of the ways Clinton will make her case on a variety of domestic and foreign issues.

"Voters need to listen closely to what he says. Their economic future is at risk and the social fabric of our country is at risk," Mook warned. "He talks every day about dividing people. He insults people. We saw the racist comments that he made about a judge. This is not who we want to lead our country and that's the case we're going to make. "