Aide: Trump was trying to point out Clinton is a ‘failed secretary of State’

Donald Trump’s convention manager, Paul Manafort, slammed Hillary Clinton on Sunday after the Republican presidential front-runner said his Democratic counterpart has only come this far because she is a woman.

“The point he was trying to make was that she’s a failed secretary of State,” Manafort said on CBS’s “Face The Nation.”

{mosads}Manafort said a Clinton presidency would essentially be a continuation of the Obama administration.

“The point he was making is that’s the way she needs to be viewed,” he said. 

Manafort said Trump views himself as the “ultimate outsider candidate.”

“He’s not one of the people who have messed up the system,” Manafort said. 

“The gridlock that exists in Washington is not what he has participated in creating.”

Manafort said Trump will not be “restricted by the limitations of Washington” on issues important to his presidency.