Capitalizing on fresh material provided by the hacker group WikiLeaks, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday ripped Hillary Clinton aides over emails mocking Catholics.

John Halpin, a scholar at the left-leaning Center for American Progress, sent an email in 2011 complaining that the Catholic faith had attracted so many powerful conservatives.

“While this is offensive, it’s just the latest evidence of the hatred the Clinton campaign has, really for everyday Americans.”

“It’s an amazing bastardization of the faith,” he wrote to John Podesta, the current chairman of Clinton’s presidential campaign, and Jennifer Palmieri, now the campaign’s communications director. “They must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations and must be totally unaware of Christian democracy.”

Palmieri, then the president of the think tank, concurred.

“I imagine they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion,” she wrote. “Their rich friends wouldn’t understand if they became evangelicals.”

Trump told a rally in Panama City, Florida, that the exchange reflects on Clinton.

“While this is offensive, it’s just the latest evidence of the hatred the Clinton campaign has, really for everyday Americans,” he said. “And you see it. And you see so much from these WikiLeaks. You see so much. There’s so much. We’ve all read the reports and heard the stories of how disrespectfully she treats law enforcement … how disrespectful she is to the Secret Service, even those there to protect her.”

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Tuesday marked yet another stop by Trump in the all-important swing state of Florida, where polls have suggested a close contest. He hammered Clinton with the latest WikiLeaks revelations, which he said highlight once again Clinton’s underhanded conduct.

“So much corruption,” he said.”This election will determine whether we remain a free country, in the truest sense of the word, or we become a corrupt, banana republic controlled by large donors and foreign governments.”

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Her election, Trump said, would result in nothing less than the “destruction of our country.”

Trump cited a WikiLeaks revelation that someone at the Department of Justice — updated Clinton aides about the probe into her email server while she was secretary of state. “This is collusion and corruption of the highest order,” he said.

Trump repeated his debate pledge to instruct his attorney general to reopen the closed criminal investigation. He said it was important to “investigate the investigation.”

Trump whipped a favorite target — the media. He said mainstream journalists are nothing more than “cogs in a corporate political machine.” He referenced a WikiLeaks revelation that The New York Times last year gave the Clinton campaign veto power over quotes for a lengthy profile in the paper’s magazine.

“I never heard about that,” Trump said. “I’d like to have veto power when they misquote me all the time. It’s actually corruption.”

Trump referenced a transcript of a paid speech Clinton gave in 2013 to bankers at Morgan Stanley praising a deficit-reduction commission that proposed raising the retirement age, slowing cost-of-living increases for Social Security recipients and slashing spending on Medicare and other health programs by $585 billion over a decade.

The result was the odd spectacle of a Republican attacking a Democrat over threats to entitlement programs. A vote for Trump, he said, is “a vote to protect Medicare and Social Security.”

Trump included several Florida-specific themes in the speech, including a shout-out to the state’s Haitian community. Many Haitians have been upset by allegations that the Clinton Foundation mishandled funds mean to rebuild the impoverished Caribbean country after a devastating hurricane in 2010.

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“The Clintons couldn’t stop cashing in,” he said. “As peopling were dying in Haiti, Clinton insiders were separating out requests from friends of Bill or William Jefferson Clinton VIPs so that their business interests or contracts would receive very special treatment.”

To Haitian exiles, Trump said: “Your day of justice is coming, and it arrives on Nov. 8.”

Trump also promised to protect Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades from environmental degradation. He repeated a pledge he made last month to cancel normalized relations with Cuba “unless we get the deal that we want.” That is a reversal of his position last year.

“[President] Obama made a one-sided deal with the Castro regime by executive order — everything’s by executive order, ’cause he doesn’t have enough time, because he’s playing golf, he doesn’t have enough time to convince Congress,” he said. “This guy plays more golf than people on the PGA tour.”

Trump said the WikiLeaks emails show that everything about Clinton is fake, down to her facial expressions. He cited advice from aides about when to smile.

“It’s all a phony deal with her,” he said “Did everybody see the debate, right?”