Clinton: ‘A Certain Attractiveness’ to Donald Trump’s ‘Inflammatory’ Rhetoric

STEPHANOPOULOS: “Donald Trump. Last few days he’s opened up — you’re laughing again.”
CLINTON: “I’m sorry. I can’t help it.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “He’s opening up a new line of attack on you. Here it is.”
CLINTON: “Oh, dear. A new one, huh?”
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TRUMP: “She’ll do a couple of minutes in Iowa, meaning a short period of time, and then she goes home and you don’t see her for five, six days, she goes home, she goes to sleep. I’m telling you. She – (Laughter) --She doesn’t have the strength, she doesn’t have the stamina.”
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CLINTON: “Oh, goodness gracious. (Laughter) -- You know –“
STEPHANOPOULOS: “I guess you don’t agree.”
CLINTON: “Well, who can agree with anything he says that is, you know, subject to one second of fact checking? Look, if he gets the nomination, I will be more than happy to campaign against him.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “Is he the one you want to run against?”
CLINTON: “I don’t really think about it that way. I don’t have any influence over who they nominate over there and, in fact, he’s not the only one saying things that are deeply distressing. A lot of the others are kind of Trump 2, you know? Oh, whatever Trump says, maybe we won’t go quite as far, but we’ll get as close as we can. So the Republicans, in their presidential nominating process, have a lot to answer for.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “How do you explain why he’s doing so well?”
CLINTON: “I don’t know, because he’s a — he’s a reality TV star. I mean tens of millions of people have watched him for more than a decade on TV and he is part of the celebrity and he will stay whatever he wants to say and if he’s held account, that — it’s not true, he just brushes it off and he goes on. And I think that, you know, there’s a certain attractiveness to people that here’s a guy who says exactly what he believes, untrue as it may be, inflammatory as it certainly is.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “Finally, you said you’re getting better at learning from your critics. They tell you things that your friends won’t. So what have you learned from your critics in this campaign?”
CLINTON: “You know, I’ve said for a long time, George, that I try — I try to take criticism seriously but not personally. And by that I mean, look, if somebody says, hey, you know, you didn’t do — or she didn’t do a good job answering this or, you know, I don’t think that that, you know, adds up, whatever they might say, I will take that seriously. But I really try not to take it personally and I think that’s a big distinction that you have to begin to draw when you’re in the public arena. You know, one of my favorite Americans, Eleanor Roosevelt, said for any woman in the public arena, you have to grow skin as thick as a rhinoceros and, you know, I try to put lotion on it, but I have –(laughter) — I’ve had to grow a lot of thick skin over the years.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “Thanks for joining us today.”
CLINTON: “Thanks, George.”