I think Trump gives people the benefit of the doubt, to the point of it being a fault. It’s obvious in his rally speeches. He’s a glass half full kind of person, looks for good in people before bad.
Watch the video.
Here’s what Trump had to have assessed in 2012 when he praised her and her tenure as SecState:
1. The gross mishandling of the situation in Iran, when the Green Movement for a short time threatened the rule of the mullahs. A real SecState would’ve gathered contemporaries across the world and condemned the brutal crackdown by the Iranian government and its basiji thug militia. She did nothing.
2. The horrendous diplomatic backing by the US Mohammed Morsi’s muslim brotherhood regime in Egypt and with it the vicious oppression of Coptic Christians.
3. The needless war and overthrow of Ghadaffi in Libya. The same Ghadaffi who had “reassessed” the situation in the reign and come to align agains Islamic terror. Remember Hillary’s statement in 2011 — “we came, we saw, he died?”
4. The abject diplomatic failure to secure a workable SOFA pact with Iraq to allow some of our troops to remain there, resulting in the resurgence of ISIS.
5. The diplomatic isolation of Israel as it fought against repeated missile attacks from HAMAS.
Failures, all.
And Donald Trump was — as you say — giving her the benefit of the doubt? Really?