Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton ‘Used to Call Me a Genius’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hit back at Hillary Clinton’s criticism in an interview with MSNBC’s Morning Joe by pointing out that she used to have a high opinion of him.

“I mean, she use to call me a genius,” Trump said. “I’ve come a long way down, I guess.”

“She was always very nice and everything, but I guess it’s a different world today,” he continued. “She’s got problems. And I would always be nice because I was a business man and a very successful person and I was nice to everybody regardless. That was my job to be nice to everybody; I didn’t want to insult people.”

“Now, I’m in a different position and we have to tell the facts the way the facts are,” he concluded. “So I’m a little surprised at her tone but that’s okay. She’s been surprised at my tone also.”

Trump denied that he was “stoking prejudice” like Clinton claimed. “There’s a lot of animosity on both sides. It’s an amazing thing, the level of animosity is incredible.”

Watch above, via MSNBC.

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