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Hillary Clinton: “You couldn't trust him with the nuclear codes. It's not tough to imagine him bringing the country into war because…”

On the recordJune 2, 2016
You couldn't trust him with the nuclear codes. It's not tough to imagine him bringing the country into war because somebody got under his very thin skin.
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Hillary Clinton
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Expressing concerns about Donald Trump's temperament and fitness for the presidency.

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