Clinton: Trump 'tried to turn a global economic challenge into an infomercial'

Hillary Clinton ripped into Donald Trump on Monday for his reaction to the British referendum on the European Union, criticizing the presumptive Republican nominee for boasting that the devaluation of the pound would lead to more business for his golf courses in Scotland.

"This is someone whose reaction to the horrific mass shooting this Orlando was to publicly congratulate himself," Clinton told a crowd in Cincinnati, joined by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). "And on Friday, when Britain voted to leave the European Union, he crowed from his golf course about how the disruption could end up creating higher profits for that golf course."


Trump did so, Clinton said, despite Americans losing $100 billion from their 401(k) accounts within 24 hours.

"He tried to turn a global economic challenge into an infomercial. Imagine Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office the next time America faces a crisis," Clinton said, as the audience booed. "Imagine him being in charge when your jobs and savings are at stake. Imagine him trying to figure out what to do in case of an emergency. So it's no wonder, is it, that risk analysts listed Donald Trump, a Donald Trump presidency as one of the top threats facing the global economy, ahead of terrorism," she said, alluding to the Economist Intelligence Unit's report in March.

"Well, we are not going to let Donald Trump bankrupt America the way he bankrupted his casinos," Clinton declared. "We need to write, we need to write a new chapter in the American dream, and it can't be Chapter 11."

Earlier on Monday, Trump's son Eric defended his father's visit to the Trump Turnberry golf resort as a family outing.

“Hillary tried to spin it like he was out there playing golf,” Eric Trump said on Fox News. “He was out there supporting me with a project that I was opening, no different than I go to every single debate to support him. I mean, that’s what families do — and I love him and he loves me and, you know, that’s what we do for each other, but it is amazing.”