Donald Trump takes bait and responds to Clinton's DNC speech with Twitter salvo

Donald Trump used Twitter, as per his habit, to respond to Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech on Thursday night.

In a brief series of tweets, the Republican nominee started by attacking “Hillary’s refusal to mention radical Islam” in her speech. Trump also bashed Clinton as “owned by Wall Street” and claimed her “vision is a borderless world where working people have no power, no jobs, no safety”.

Trump eventually concluded with “no one has worse judgement [sic] than Hillary Clinton – corruption and devastation follows her wherever she goes.”

The tweets came as Clinton launched a pointed attack on Trump, questioning his fitness for office and questioning his temperament - both on and offline.

“Imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis,” she said. “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.”

During Clinton’s 58-minute acceptance speech as the first woman to be nominated for president by a major US party, the Republican’s presidential campaign ramped up its rapid response effort by cranking out 15 emails.

The emails all started with “Hillary’s With Us” in their subject line, ranging from

“Hillary’s With Us … If You’re A Clinton Foundation Donor (Goldman Sachs Edition)” to “Hillary’s With Us … If You Break The Rules (Secret Server Edition).” Each email included a range of press clips backing up various attack lines on the former secretary of state.

During the speech, Trump’s national spokeswoman, Katrina Pierson, also weighed in on Twitter. She tweeted :“#crookedHillary doesn’t understand that there is only ONE President not a village of Presidents. @realDonaldTrump can fix it! #DemsInPhilly”.
The Trump campaign also put out a statement, attributed to senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, that savaged Clinton. “Hillary Clinton’s speech was an insulting collection of clichés and recycled rhetoric. She spent the evening talking down to the American people she’s looked down on her whole life,” said Miller in a statement.
The policy aide, who frequently opens for Trump at campaign rallies, attacked Clinton’s “globalist agenda” while describing her address as “a speech delivered from a fantasy universe, not the reality we live in today”.
In 2008 Republican John McCain put out an video congratulating Barack Obama on his historic victory when the then senator became the first African American nominee for a major party. “Too often the achievements of our opponents go unnoticed,” McCain said then. “So I wanted to stop and say, congratulations.”
With the general election officially starting, both Trump and Clinton will hit the campaign trail on Friday. Clinton will start a bus tour through Ohio and Pennsylvania with a stop in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, while Trump has two campaign stops scheduled in Colorado.