"If
your governor will start doing his job instead of following Donald
Trump around, holding his coat, maybe we could really get New Jersey's
economy moving again," Clinton said to cheers from the crowd.
Clinton
is spending time in the city where Trump developed casinos in an effort
to highlight what her aides are calling Trump's "fraudulent business
history."
The visit comes the same
day that the campaign announced that she is updating her college
affordability plan to include input she received from her primary rival
Bernie Sanders. In an olive branch to unify her party in fighting Trump,
Clinton will add three new features to her "New College Compact,"
including eliminating college tuition for working families, a step that
moves Clinton closer to the tuition free college plan that Sanders ran
on in 2015 and 2016.
She hit Trump
for "multiple bankruptcies, stiffing contractors and spurring hundreds
of job losses" during his time owning casinos in Atlantic City.
Clinton
appeared in front of Boardwalk Hall, the city's old convention center,
and was introduced by a small business owner who the aide said was hurt
by Trump's business practices.
Clinton
and her aides are looking to move past an FBI press conference that
recommended she not face charges in her exclusive use of a private email
server, but also raised serious questions about her judgment. The
presser by FBI director James Comey rocked Clinton's Brooklyn
headquarters, making it even more important in the eyes of Clinton's top
aides to undercut Trump's credibility.
Trump wasn't letting the spotlight disappear off the FBI press conference Wednesday morning.
"Crooked Hillary Clinton lied to the FBI and to the people of our country. She is sooooo guilty. But watch, her time will come!"
He also sent a pair of tweets criticizing Clinton and blaming Democrats for making "all the wrong moves" to destroy the city.
"I
made a lot of money in Atlantic City and left 7 years ago, great timing
(as all know). Pols made big mistakes, now many bankruptcies,"
Clinton,
since pivoting to Trump, has attempted to undercut that business
record, something that has animated much of his unexpectedly strong
presidential run.
"How can anybody lose money running a casino? Really," Clinton jokingly asked an audience in Detroit last month.
She
added, "Trump economics is a recipe for lower wages, fewer jobs, more
debt. He could bankrupt America like he's bankrupted his companies."
Trump has filed four business bankruptcies in the last 30 years, all of which surrounded his casino holdings in Atlantic City.
Trump
filed for bankruptcy on the Taj Mahal in 1991 and the Trump Castle
Associates in 1992. He later filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Trump
Hotel & Casino Resorts in 2004 and Trump Entertainment Resorts in
2009.
Trump has defended the bankruptcies by noting that he never personally went bankrupt.
"I have used the laws of this country
... the (bankruptcy) chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for
myself, for my employees, for my family," he said last year.
But
the bankruptcies have hurt Atlantic City, a city that is now blighted
with empty hulking buildings, unemployment substantially higher than the
national average, and a high violent crime rate.
The Clinton campaign blamed Trump for the problems plaguing the city.
In addition to Wednesday's event, the Clinton campaign
that documents "Trump's fraudulent pattern in Atlantic City of making
millions for himself while defrauding people of millions that he owed
them."
The video, while not
featuring Trump's voice once, uses people stiffed by Trump in Atlantic
City to make the case that the city "proves" he shouldn't be president.
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