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Donald Trump Accuses Hillary Clinton of Accepting Money From China, Says Country Made Democratic Candidate Rich

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Visits China

(Photo : Feng Li/Getty Images) Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) shake hands at the Ziguangge Pavilion in the Zhongnanhai leaders' compound in Beijing on September 5, 2012. Donald Trump is accusing Clinton of helping China in exchange for money.

Donald Trump gave a speech on Wednesday, attacking Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and accusing her of helping China in exchange for money, adding that the country has made the former Secretary of State rich.

In the speech, Trump called Clinton the most corrupt person ever to seek presidency in the United States, claiming that she was corrupt during her time as the First Lady and when she served as the Secretary of State and Senator from New York.

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As for his accusations about Clinton helping the Chinese government build its economy, the real estate mogul shared, "Hillary Clinton gave China millions of our best jobs, and effectively let China completely rebuild itself. In return, Hillary Clinton got rich."

He added that Clinton supported her husband's North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which he dubbed as disastrous, and supported the entrance of China into the World Trade organization. He noted that they the U.S. has since lost one-third of its manufacturing jobs due to the two agreements that Clinton signed and supported.

Trump did not further elaborate on the matter of Clinton supporting China, but he did quote a statement from a book called Clinton Cash, published by conservative writer Peter Schweizer.

The book by the Brietbart news editor detailes the instances when former President Bill Clinton was given money by foreign business groups to give speeches - sometimes in China - while Hillary was Secretary of State. Bill Clinton once gave a speech to a business conference called the Huatuo CEO Forum in 2011 and was paid $550,000.

Trump also accused Hillary of running the Senate Department like a "personal hedge fund."

Trump continued, "Then, when she left, she made $21.6 million giving speeches to Wall Street banks and other special interests - in less than two years - secret speeches that she does not want to reveal to the public."

Trump also blamed Hillary for causing the trade deficit between China and the United States.

Aside from attacking Hillary, Trump tried courting the supporters of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, saying that he supports cutting taxes. He said that he is asking Sanders supporters to vote for him, so "together we can fix the system for all Americans."

A recently released poll shows that 22 percent of the Sanders sympathizers are planning to vote for Trump in the November general election. 

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