Hillary Clinton says it was "entertainment" – not Donald Trump's donations – that drew her to the real estate billionaire's 2005 wedding to Melania Knauss.
Following a campaign event in New Hampshire on Monday, Clinton laughed at Trump’s assertion during last week's GOP presidential debate that she had "no choice" but to attend.
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Clinton remembers her attendance quite differently.
"I didn’t know him that well," Clinton said at the campaign event in Exeter, N.H. "I mean I knew him, and I happen to be in Florida, and I thought it would be fun to go to this wedding, because it’s always entertaining."
"It’s all entertainment. I think he’s having the time of his life, saying what he wants to say getting people excited both for and against him."
Now that Trump is running for president, she added, it's "more troubling."
Then-senator Clinton was present at the nuptials in Palm Beach, Fla., and she and her husband attended the reception together,
ABC News reports.
At last Thursday's GOP debate, Trump, replying to a question about his donations to Democrats including Clinton, declared: "When they call, I give. And you know what, when I need something from them — two years later, three years later — I call them. They are there for me. That's a broken system."
Pressed on what Clinton had done for him,
Trump replied: "I said 'be at my wedding' and she came to my wedding. She had no choice."
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