Hillary Clinton has boosted her attack on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, accusing him of wanting the housing crisis of 2008 to happen so he could make a profit.
In a new campaign video, the businessman turned Republican was quoted in an interview from 2006.
He said: “I sort of hope that happens because people like me would go in and buy."
"If there is a bubble burst as they call it, you know, you could make a lot of money," he added.
Ms Clinton’s team said in an email that while Mr Trump was “rooting” for the crisis, nine million Americans ended up losing their jobs and five million lost their homes.
The move comes amid heightening tensions over more than half a dozen battleground states during the election campaign.
Ms Clinton has been accused herself of not facing up to the big banks before the credit crisis, and instead blaming homebuyers.
In a video entitled “Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight”, she was filmed at a presidential roundtable in December 2007 saying: “Now who is exactly to blame for the housing crisis? I think there’s plenty of blame to go around… Homebuyers who paid extra fees to avoid documenting their income, should have known they were getting in over their heads.”
That video has been viewed close to 8 million times.
The campaign has become increasingly nasty as Mr Trump’s latest shot was to air an Instagram video that features the voices of two women who accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault, and that his wife was an “enabler” of Mr Clinton’s behaviour.
He also targeted “Crooked Hillary” by pointing to issues like foreign donations to her family’s philanthropic organization over the last 10 years.
