Top moments from CNN's Democratic debate in less than 90 seconds. Trump on Clinton's debate performance: 'Like her or not, she did her job'

Donald Trump said that Hillary Clinton was the winner of Tuesday night's debate — but that may be because no other contender on the stage gave her a hard time.

“In all fairness, like her or not, she did her job and they were very, very kind,” Trump said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe" Wednesday. “All of these people, including [Bernie] Sanders should have been hitting Hillary hard.”


The Vermont senator threw Clinton an unexpected bone during the debate as she was being grilled about her use of a private email server that has plagued her candidacy.

When asked about her use of the server, Clinton gave a lengthy defense that ended with her saying she had made a mistake but was still standing.

Then Sanders came in and said something that earned a giant smile on Clinton’s face.

“The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails,” Sanders said.

Trump said that comment from Sanders might have been a good sound-byte, but it was strategically a big mistake.

“I think Bernie actually for the sake of a good sound-byte let her off the hook,” Trump said. "When you’re losing, cause he is losing badly if you look nationally, you’re losing that badly you have to go a lot stronger."

“She did what she had to do, and they were extremely gentle. The other three? It’s not going to happen,” Trump said on ABC’s “Good Morning America" Wednesday morning.

Trump live-tweeted the whole debate but it wasn’t because he thought it was exciting.

“It wasn’t a very exciting debate. I wanted to turn but I promised people I was gonna tweet. I wanted to go off so badly but I thought it wouldn’t sound nice if I refused to watch a potential opponent’s debate,” he said on “Morning Joe.”

Fellow GOP candidate Jeb Bush also weighed in on the debate on "Fox & Friends" Wednesday morning, saying he didn't understand why the other candidates were so easy on Clinton.

“I thought it was interesting that they didn’t go after her — particularly on the email issue because look there’s an FBI investigation, she hasn’t been forthcoming,” Bush said. “I would have taken her to the task on that. And if she wins the nomination and I win the nomination, trust me this is not gonna end.”

