Bill Clinton rips Trump's plan for a wall (pictures)
APPLETON - Former President Bill Clinton, making a campaign stop here on behalf of his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, took a swipe at GOP front-runner Donald Trump for wanting to build a wall on the country’s southern border.
“Building a wall is a bad idea,” he told a crowd of 650 Friday morning at Lawrence University in downtown Appleton.
“We can do this," he said in reference to creating a stronger middle class, "but we can’t do this until we tear down (economic) barriers.”
The remark brought the biggest cheer from the crowd during Clinton’s 50-minute stump speech for Hillary. The event at Lawrence was the first time a former president had visited the campus, said Rick Peterson, an LU spokesman.
During his speech, Bill Clinton also hit Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker for making cuts to the University of Wisconsin System budget and for implementing voter ID requirements at the polls.
His talk to the crowd of mostly college students was policy-heavy, touching on Hillary Clinton's ideas to reform Wall Street, to lower the cost of college and diversify the country's energy usage, which he said would bring jobs by creating new wind and solar energy infrastructure.
Clinton also mentioned his wife's early work before politics, where she went undercover for a civil rights advocate to investigate segregation in Alabama schools in the 1970s.
"That was gutsy for 40 years ago," he said
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