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22 Oct, 2016

Criticizes Michelle Obama’s Clinton support

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Trump criticizes Obama for her support of Clinton, drawing attention to comments she made in 2008 that were critical of Clinton.

I see how much [Michelle Obama] likes Hillary. But wasn’t she the one that originally started the statement, ‘If you can’t take care of your home,’ right? ‘You can’t take care of the White House or the country?’ Where’s that? I don’t hear that. I don’t hear that.

The Obama campaign says the line, “If you can’t run your own house, you certainly can’t run the White House,” was not directed at the Clintons and instead referred to their own struggle with parenting during a campaign.