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"What he has laid out is the most dangerous, reckless approach to being president than I think we've ever seen," Clinton said
Clinton aides believe that the way to beat Trump is to cast a vote for him as a vote for putting the United States in danger
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Hillary Clinton said Monday that Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, was the most dangerous presidential candidate in the history of the United States.
Clinton, in an interview with CBS News’ Charlie Rose, said Trump has “no self-discipline, no self-control, no sense of history, no understanding of the limits of the kind of power that any president should impose upon himself.”
After hitting Trump for advocating for a return to torture and killing the families of terrorists, Clinton said: “What he has laid out is the most dangerous, reckless approach to being president than I think we’ve ever seen.”
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The Donald Trump travel guide —
Donald Trump is truly a man of the world, even if the world doesn't always see it that way. Click through the gallery to see what we mean.
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Scotland —
Trump's development of an Aberdeen golf resort triggered a vicious (and still ongoing) feud with neighbors, who gave their side in the 2011 film "You've Been Trumped."
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Mexico —
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best," Trump famously said. "They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." This fiery Mexico City tribute shows how this statement went down in the country.
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Germany —
Kallstadt is Trump's German ancestral home. However, when Deutsche Welle contacted Trump's distant relations they elicited little more on the record than, "Hopefully this hype will ease up soon."
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Czech Republic —
Clearly not content with being known just as the birthplace of Ivana, the first Mrs. Trump, the Czech town of Zlin in 2014 staged the country's largest ever pillow fight.
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Slovenia —
Melania, the third Mrs. Trump, is from Sevnica. Some locals are hopeful a Trump win might lead to publicity and additional donations from Melania. (She gave to the local health clinic after the 2006 birth of their son, Barron.)
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Indonesia —
2015 saw the announcement of Trump's first and second properties in Asia, with a resort situated in "the most magnificent location in Bali" and another in Lido Lakes that shall be "the pride of Indonesia."
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Sweden —
This popular Swedish site allows people to give Donald a blast of trump(et). It's been blown 110,000,000 times and counting.
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Ireland —
In 2014, Trump invested $20 million in a property in County Clare -- the downside is that it's collapsing into the sea. His proposal to build what Friends of the Irish Environment termed a "monster sea wall" met with local outrage.
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China —
Trump-branded clothes that don't read "Made in Mexico" often say "Made in China." Trump explained this in 2011 by declaring, "China so manipulates their currency it makes it almost impossible for American companies to compete."
Rose, seemingly surprised by the comment, asked: “The most dangerous man ever to run for president of the United States?”
“I believe that,” Clinton said.
Poll: Advantage Clinton as conventions begin
Clinton’s top campaign aides believe that the way to beat Trump in November is to not only stoke voters’ distrust of him, but to cast a vote for him as a vote for putting the United States in danger. The goal is to convince voters that Trump is unprepared and unfit for the job.
In an ABC News poll released this week, 60% of voters said Trump was not qualified to be president, 37% said he was qualified. Clinton had the near inverse of those numbers: 59% said she was qualified, while 39% said she was not.
Yet polls also show Clinton in a close race with the presumptive Republican nominee.
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Hillary Clinton accepts the Democratic Party's nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 28, 2016. The former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state was the first woman to lead the presidential ticket of a major political party.
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Before marrying Bill Clinton, she was Hillary Rodham. Here she attends Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Her commencement speech at Wellesley's graduation ceremony in 1969 attracted national attention. After graduating, she attended Yale Law School.
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Rodham was a lawyer on the House Judiciary Committee, whose work led to impeachment charges against President Richard Nixon in 1974.
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In 1975, Rodham married Bill Clinton, whom she met at Yale Law School. He became the governor of Arkansas in 1978. In 1980, the couple had a daughter, Chelsea.
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Arkansas' first lady, now using the name Hillary Rodham Clinton, wears her inaugural ball gown in 1985.
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The Clintons celebrate Bill's inauguration in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1991. He was governor from 1983 to 1992, when he was elected President.
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Bill Clinton comforts his wife on the set of "60 Minutes" after a stage light broke loose from the ceiling and knocked her down in January 1992.
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In June 1992, Clinton uses a sewing machine designed to eliminate back and wrist strain. She had just given a speech at a convention of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union.
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During the 1992 presidential campaign, Clinton jokes with her husband's running mate, Al Gore, and Gore's wife, Tipper, aboard a campaign bus.
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Clinton accompanies her husband as he takes the oath of office in January 1993.
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The Clintons share a laugh on Capitol Hill in 1993.
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Clinton unveils the renovated Blue Room of the White House in 1995.
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Clinton waves to the media in January 1996 as she arrives for an appearance before a grand jury in Washington. The first lady was subpoenaed to testify as a witness in the investigation of the Whitewater land deal in Arkansas. The Clintons' business investment was investigated, but ultimately they were cleared of any wrongdoing.
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The Clintons hug as Bill is sworn in for a second term as President.
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The first lady holds up a Grammy Award, which she won for her audiobook "It Takes a Village" in 1997.
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The Clintons dance on a beach in the U.S. Virgin Islands in January 1998. Later that month, Bill Clinton was accused of having a sexual relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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Clinton looks on as her husband discusses the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 26, 1998. Clinton declared, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." In August of that year, Clinton testified before a grand jury and admitted to having "inappropriate intimate contact" with Lewinsky, but he said it did not constitute sexual relations because they had not had intercourse. He was impeached in December on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
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The first family walk