“It's rooted in the values that I learned from my family and my faith. We are all in this together, and we have a responsibility to lift each other up,” Hillary Clinton said. Clinton rebukes Trump over 'outlandish lies and conspiracy theories'

Hillary Clinton showed no signs Wednesday of slowing her verbal onslaught on Donald Trump, using the former reality TV star’s most famous words against him to present herself as the best candidate to improve America’s economy.

After casting Trump as an economic danger, attacking his bombastic, controversial rhetoric on America’s economy and mocking his business record on Tuesday, Clinton continued driving that message while also presenting an economic plan she said would work for everyone.


“Maybe we shouldn’t expect better from someone whose most famous words are ‘You’re fired,’” Clinton told supporters during a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, after pointing to Trump’s proposals. “Well, here’s what I want you to know: I do have a jobs program, and as president I’m gonna make sure that you hear ‘You’re hired.’”

Clinton boasted that the billionaire businessman “hates it” when anybody “points out how hollow his sales pitch really is.”

“And I guess my speech yesterday must have gotten under his skin because right away he lashed out on Twitter with outlandish lies and conspiracy theories, and he did the same in his speech today,” Clinton said.

Trump blasted Clinton on Wednesday morning in his long-awaited remarks about the former secretary of state, accusing her of being a “world-class liar” who “may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency.” He presented his rival as another corrupt politician who’s beholden to donors and special interests and blamed her leadership — or lack thereof — at the State Department for the rise of the Islamic State. He even attacked her “old and tired” message and mocked her campaign slogan, “I’m with her.”

“You know what my response to that is? I’m with you, the American people,” Trump said to applause. “She thinks it’s all about her. I know it’s all about you. I know it’s all about making America great again for all Americans.”

Though he lodged a barrage of attacks at Clinton during his speech, Trump didn’t sit idly by when it was Clinton’s turn. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee tweeted as Clinton was speaking that the choice in November is “between Americanism and her corrupt globalism” — while including the hash tag #Imwithyou.

Clinton suggested that Trump was attacking her personally “because he has no answers on the substance.”

“All he can do is try to distract us. That’s even why he’s attacking my faith — sigh — and of course attacking a philanthropic foundation that saves and improves lives around the world,” Clinton said. “It’s no surprise he doesn’t understand these things. The Clinton Foundation helps poor people around the world get access to life-saving AIDS medicine. Donald Trump uses poor people around the world to produce his line of suits and ties.”

Clinton highlighted her faith just minutes into her speech, implicitly firing back at Trump, who in a video published via Twitter by Christian conservative E.W. Jackson on Tuesday claimed that “there’s nothing out there” about Clinton’s faith. (Clinton has said she is Methodist and has talked about it on multiple occasions, including on the campaign trail, and Trump later told CBS he didn’t mean his remark “in a negative way”).

Clinton said every child deserves the chance to live up to his or her God-given potential, calling that the cause of her life.

“It's rooted in the values that I learned from my family and my faith. We are all in this together, and we have a responsibility to lift each other up,” she added. “As we Methodists like to say, ‘Do all the good you can to all the people you can in all the ways you can,’ and that is absolutely true for our children. That's why I got into public service in the first place, and it's why I am determined that we will win this election in November.”

Clinton reiterated her refrain that Trump has no real solutions, arguing that he spews reckless ideas that would “run up our debt and cause another economic crash.”

“I'm here today to offer an alternative,” she said. And she did. Clinton spoke of an economy that worked for everyone — one that would drive lasting growth, reduce inequality and improve upward mobility. She advocated for a range of Democratic positions like an increase in the national minimum wage, equal pay for women, paid family leave and debt-free college and vowed not to raise taxes on the middle class and to work with Republicans to pass a comprehensive plan to create the next generation of good-paying jobs.

“The measure of our success will be how much incomes rise for hardworking families, how many children are lifted out of poverty, how many Americans can find good jobs that support a middle class life and not only that, jobs that provide a sense of dignity and pride,” Clinton said. “That's what it means to have an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. That's the mission, and I'm asking all of you to join me in it.”

She poked at Republicans’ theory of so-called “trickle-down economics,” arguing that although it’s been repeatedly proven wrong, Republicans in Congress still favor tax cuts for the wealthy.

“They careen from one self-inflicted crisis to another, shutting down the government, threatening to default on our national debt, refusing to make the common sense investments that used to have broad bipartisan support, like rebuilding our roads and our bridges, our tunnels, our highways, our airports or investing in better education from zero through high school and college,” Clinton said.

Republicans, she continued, have lost sight of their responsibility, adding that they allow Wall Street to take big risks and undermine workers’ rights.

“It's not easy to change Washington or how corporations behave. It takes more than stern words or a flashy slogan,” she said, taking another shot at Trump and his “Make America Great Again” slogan. “It takes a plan, and it takes experience and the ability to work with both parties to get results. And that means — that means we need a president who knows what we're up against, has no illusions about what we need to do to move ahead but can actually get it done, and that is what I am offering.”

Clinton said her campaign has highlighted how it will pay for the policies she has proposed. Then she mocked Trump again.

He “and I disagree on a lot of things,” she said, “and one of them is simple math.”

“We need to write a new chapter in the American dream and it can’t be Chapter 11,” Clinton added, echoing an applause line from her speech the previous day. “So, please, join me in this campaign. I’m offering a very different vision about how we’re stronger together when we grow together. We’re stronger when our economy works for everyone, not just those at the top.”

Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said Clinton’s strategy to double down on progressive ideas was wise.

“Keeping the volume high on popular progressive ideas gets Clinton a two-fer, bringing [Bernie] Sanders supporters along for the ride while fending off Donald Trump's attempt to woo swing voters with his faux economic populism,” he said. “Campaigning as a bold progressive on issues like expanding Social Security, debt-free college, and Wall Street reform is both a smart Democratic unity strategy and a smart general election strategy.”

Gabriel Debenedetti contributed to this report from Raleigh, North Carolina.