E.J. Dionne: Hillary Began Solving Her ‘Authenticity Problem’ by Attacking Trump

‘I think this was a real turning point week, because Hillary Clinton’s attack on Trump laid out the entire — almost the entire case against him in detail’

DIONNE: "Yes, no. I think he may have picked the worst day of the year. Some people have speculated he’s getting in the way of Hillary’s speech. I think he has no idea how effective that would be or that the very next day, Ryan would have to say, oh, I’m for Trump, but I don’t believe in what he’s doing with that judge. I think this was a real turning point week, because Hillary Clinton’s attack on Trump laid out the entire — almost the entire case against him in detail. She was calm. And she finally solved — or at least began solving this authenticity problem. And she’s not really comfortable attacking Bernie Sanders. There’s too much cost to that. But she believed every word she said about Donald Trump, because he so offends her notion of what a president looks like. So I think that was a kind of two-fer for her. And the Republicans knew it. It was shocking that Trump had nothing ready in response to that speech."

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