"The bottom line, which I think is becoming clearer everyday, is that Donald Trump is not qualified to be President, and he is temperamentally unfit to be Commander-in-Chief," 68-year-old Clinton said at an election rally in Las Vegas.
"Anyone you can provoke with a tweet should not be anywhere near nuclear weapons," said Clinton, who according to a latest poll is leading Trump by 15 percentage points.
Clinton said she has been hearing stories from so many people who did work for Trump and one of his buildings, and then he wouldn't pay them.
"I went to Atlantic City, and I met a number of small businesses, as well as workers, plumbers and painters, glass installers, marble installers. At one of his resorts, they finished the work, the man who sold him the pianos and installed the pianos, they finished the work, and they submitted their bill," he said.
"And then he comes back and he says, Well, maybe I'll give you 50 cents or 30 cents on the dollar. Now, I've got to tell you, I take this really personally," she said.
"My father was a small businessman, and he printed fabric for drapes. That's what he did. He had a print plant. It was a low-ceiling, dark place with two long tables and you'd roll the fabric out on it, then you would take a silk screen and you'd put it down, you'd pour the paint in, you'd take the squeegee, you'd go from left to right, then you'd lift it up and you would do it again, all the way down that table, the next table, until you finished doing it," Clinton said.
Trump, she alleged, refused to pay nearly USD 400,000 to a local Nevada drapery company which had to close its factory.
"So I do, I take it personally. Small business is the backbone of our economy. That's where most of the jobs come from. We should be honoring people who take the risk and put in the hard work and the sweat to build their small businesses," she said.
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