Clinton goes after Trump’s weakness: His famously thin skin

By Karen Tumulty September 26 at 11:17 PM

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Hillary Clinton’s weapon of choice in her first debate with Donald Trump was a needle.

Almost from the outset of the 95-minute debate, the Democratic nominee, who is known for having a debate-stage persona as a policy wonk, took after her opponent with digs aimed at piercing his famously thin skin.

She began with one at the very core of his identity as a self-made success story. “He started his business with $14 million, borrowed from his father,” Clinton said in one of their early exchanges.

“My father gave me a very small loan in 1975, and I built it into a company that’s worth many, many billions of dollars, with some of the greatest assets in the world,” Trump protested.

Nimble is not a word often associated with Clinton. But the former secretary of state kept up the jabs and the footwork, taking a far more aggressive stance than she had demonstrated in the many past debates in which she has participated as a candidate for the Senate and for the White House.

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