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CLINTON: And actually — well, that was very interesting. First of all, China is illegally dumping steel in the United States and Donald Trump is buying it to build his buildings, putting steelworkers and American steel plants out of business. That’s something that I fought against as a senator and that I would have a trade prosecutor to make sure that we don’t get taken advantage of by China on steel or anything else.

You know, because it sounds like you’re in the business or you’re aware of people in the business — you know that we are now for the first time ever energy-independent. We are not dependent upon the Middle East. But the Middle East still controls a lot of the prices. So the price of oil has been way down. And that has had a damaging effect on a lot of the oil companies, right? We are, however, producing a lot of natural gas, which serves as a bridge to more renewable fuels. And I think that’s an important transition.

We’ve got to remain energy-independent. It gives us much more power and freedom than to be worried about what goes on in the Middle East. We have enough worries over there without having to worry about that.

So I have a comprehensive energy policy, but it really does include fighting climate change, because I think that is a serious problem. And I support moving toward more clean, renewable energy as quickly as we can, because I think we can be the 21st century clean energy superpower and create millions of new jobs and businesses.

But I also want to be sure that we don’t leave people behind. That’s why I’m the only candidate from the very beginning of this campaign who had a plan to help us revitalize coal country, because those coal miners and their fathers and their grandfathers, they dug that coal out. A lot of them lost their lives. They were injured, but they turned the lights on and they powered their factories. I don’t want to walk away from them. So we’ve got to do something for them.

Thanks for that post, DoughtyOne.

When you read through that transcript, you have to laugh.

I don't know if Trump is buying Chinese steel. But at least he's employing American workers to build his buildings. He contributes much more to the economy than the Witch ever did. (BTW, she doubled down on the "Chinese steel" charge in her shrill and loud speech in Detroit today.)

Yes, she did say that the US is energy independent. I know that is blatantly false, because, for one, domestic oil and natural gas is not being produced at anywhere near capacity. And even if it were true, it wouldn't be "the first time ever" we were energy independent. I think we were energy independent from the late 19th century through a good deal of the 20th.

"Fighting climate change"? Well, that's insane, to think that if there is significant climate change, humans have the capacity to stop it.

And her "plan to ... revitalize the coal industry"? LOL!!! She's already said that she wants to end the coal industry, hasn't she?