Trump: Clinton scandals have been ‘sad, sad, sad for America’

It’s hard to tell where the Clinton Foundation ends and where the State Department begins, Donald Trump said Saturday. 

{mosads}”The Clinton corruption scandals have been there for a long time, and it’s been sad, sad, sad for America,” Trump said, speaking at Republican Sen. Joni Ernst’s annual “Roast and Ride” event in Des Moines, Iowa. 

“The whole world has been shocked by the controversy regarding Hillary Clinton and her play-for-play State Department and other things,” Trump said of the Democratic presidential nominee.

He was referring to an Associated Press analysis that showed more than half the people outside of the government that Clinton met with while secretary of State had given money to her family foundation. Trump has since accused Clinton of exchanging favors for large donations to the foundation, also known as pay-for-play.

Trump and the Republican National Committee have called on Clinton to release her daily schedules as secretary of State, but the State Department said on Friday that it couldn’t do that until after the general election.

“There’s too much stuff on that. They want it after the election,” Trump said of her schedules. 

“It’s protection from a corrupt, rigged system.” 

He called Clinton’s history of scandals “exhausting” for the American people. 

“The Clintons have had their time on the stage, but now it’s time to close that chapter,” he said. 

The Republican presidential nominee promised that his campaign is about “restoring honesty and integrity to government” and pledged that “the White House will soon become the People’s House.” 

Kicking off the speaking portion of the event, Ernst previewed Trump’s attacks on Clinton, saying, “With Hillary Clinton, it’s all about her, when it should be about you — about Iowans.”