AP, Washington :Hillary Clinton is calling Donald Trump a fraud, claiming he’s trying to scam Americans the way he scammed students who enrolled in his university.Newly released documents about the now-defunct business owned by Trump revealed that he tried to trick people into enrolling who couldn’t afford the tuition.Clinton is seizing on those reports, saying Trump used the “fraudulent scheme” to enrich himself on behalf of hardworking Americans.She says, “This is just more evidence that Donald Trump himself is a fraud.”With the nomination in sight, Clinton has shifted her focus to Trump, painting the presumptive GOP nominee as a con artist more concerned with his wealth than the future of the country.She was campaigning in Newark, New Jersey, ahead of that state’s June 7 primary.Meanwhile, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton’s campaign signalled on Wednesday plans for a big assault on Republican Donald Trump even as she battles to hold off rival Bernie Sanders in California.Clinton, a former secretary of state, is to deliver what her campaign described as a major speech on Thursday in San Diego to underscore what she feels would be the threat posed by Trump to US national security if he is elected president on Nov. 8.Her language to describe Trump has grown more aggressive by the day. On Wednesday, she seized on testimony released in a lawsuit against Trump University in which some former workers said they believed Trump’s for-profit school was fraudulent.”Trump and his employees took advantage of vulnerable Americans encouraging them to max out their credit cards, empty their retirement savings, destroy their financial futures, all while making promises they knew were false from the beginning,” Clinton told a campaign event in Newark, New Jersey.”This is just more evidence that Donald Trump himself is a fraud.”Lawyers for Trump have said most students were satisfied with Trump University, dismissing the former workers’ testimony as discredited.The effort to define Trump as unfit to be commander in chief comes as Clinton faces fierce opposition from Sanders, a US senator from Vermont who has insisted on staying in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination despite Clinton’s nearly insurmountable lead.
