Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has visited the famous boardwalk in Atlantic City to highlight Republican rival Donald Trump's casino bankruptcies, warning he would bring the same cutthroat approach to managing the US economy.
Clinton, standing next to the shuttered Trump Plaza casino that Trump once owned, said the real estate developer routinely profited from the financial ruin of workers in the economically depressed seaside resort town.
Clinton said Trump's casino bankruptcies and numerous complaints against him by contractors show he cannot be trusted to set economic policy from the White House.
The Trump Plaza was one of four casinos Trump once owned in Atlantic City. He left the city after his last bankruptcy.
Clinton reminded supporters who gathered on the boardwalk under a boiling sun, within steps of the city's beach, that Trump ha promised to "do for the country what I did for my business".
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She said Trump intentionally ran up hundreds of millions of debt on his companies, borrowed at high rates, defaulted on the loans, and left in the lurch the workers and contractors who relied on his casinos for income.
Atlantic City has struggled economically in recent years as a series of casinos have closed.
The city's 10 per cent unemployment rate is nearly double the national average, and closed buildings pockmark its boardwalk.
In an emailed statement, Trump defended his bankruptcy filings on casinos and other projects as a commonly used practice to restructure a business and ultimately save jobs.
After the speech, Clinton drove a few blocks to shake hands with dozens of striking workers outside the Trump Taj Mahal, another of the casinos that Trump once owned.
Her attack on Trump's business dealings came as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee blasted her integrity following an FBI report that criticised her use of private email during her tenure as secretary of state.
Clinton did not address the email issue during her stop in Atlantic City.
On Tuesday, FBI Director James Comey said the agency would recommend no criminal charges against Clinton for her use of private email servers. But Comey rebuked her for what he said was "extremely careless" handling of classified material.
Republican lawmakers criticised Comey for what they saw as lax treatment of Clinton, and on Wednesday, committee chairman Jason Chaffetz, a Republican, announced that Comey will testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday to explain the bureau's "surprising and confusing" recommendation.
