Donald Trump has criticized former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's handling of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Trump: Hillary's killed 'hundreds of thousands'

Donald Trump seemingly laid fault for the rise of ISIL and the Syrian civil war directly at the feet of Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Sunday, claiming the former secretary of state "killed hundreds of thousands of people with her stupidity."

Trump, appearing on "Fox News Sunday," shocked host Chris Wallace with his comments.


"She is the one that caused all this problem with her stupid policies," he said. "You look at what she did with Libya, what she did with Syria. Look at Egypt, what happened with Egypt, a total mess. They don't back — we don't back any of our allies. You look, she was truly, if not 'the,' one of the worst secretary of states in the history of the country. She talks about me being dangerous. She's killed hundreds of thousands of people with her stupidity."

"What do you mean, hundreds of thousands?" Wallace responded.

"She was secretary of state. Obama was president, the team," Trump said. "Two real geniuses."

In September, relying on data from a non-governmental organization, the New York Times reported 200,000 people had died in the Syrian civil war. Clinton was one of the more hawkish members of President Barack Obama's national security team when it came to Syria, arguing that the United States should have armed moderate rebel groups earlier in the conflict.

Trump also criticized Clinton's handling of the attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi.

"Look at Benghazi, our ambassador," he said. "He wired her five or six hundred times asking for help. She'll take her friend's call every time. Hillary Clinton doesn't have the judgment. She doesn't have the strength or the stamina to be president. She will be a terrible president. And I think I'll win."