Clinton camp hits Trump before foreign policy speech

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Wednesday offered a preemptive strike against Donald Trump, hours before the Republican  front-runner was set to deliver a major foreign policy address.

Trump’s foreign policy is “dangerous,” Clinton’s campaign said in a release.

{mosads}“[N]othing he can say can hide the long list of dangerous national security proposals he’s put forward over the course of this campaign,” the campaign added. “He has used the most reckless rhetoric of any major presidential candidate in modern history.

“Despite his frequent contradictions and displays of ignorance, Trump has a long record of recklessness and has espoused a worldview that goes against everything that makes America great,” it claimed.

“A Trump presidency risks leaving both our country and the world dramatically less safe.”

The comments, which were followed by numerous examples of Trump’s break with foreign policy orthodoxy, are a glimpse at the line of attacks the Clinton camp is likely to take as it pivots toward a general election battle with Trump.

On Tuesday, Clinton asked for the Democratic Party to “unify” around her, in a clear bid to end the primary fight with Bernie Sanders and focus on this fall’s general election.

Clinton, a former secretary of State, believes her foreign policy expertise would be an asset in a matchup against Trump. The billionaire real estate mogul has alarmed circles in Washington by calling for a ban on Muslims entering the country, suggesting that Japan and South Korea obtain nuclear weapons and demanding that Mexico pay for a wall along its border with the U.S.

On Wednesday, Trump is expected to try and extend an olive branch to those insiders in a major foreign policy address in downtown Washington.