He wrote in The New York Times that Donald Trump has no experience in national security, and, worse yet – quote – “The character traits he has exhibited during the primary season suggest he would be a poor, even unsafe, commander in chief”.
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Trump referred to Putin as a “great leader” on the campaign trail, ignoring his less-than-exemplary human rights record and driving of the Russian economy downhill.
“He’s a trained intelligence officer, worked for the KGB, very talented, manipulated people much smarter than Donald Trump”, Morell explained. Trump has praised Putin as a great leader, and taken policy positions “consistent with Russian, not American, interests” including endorsing Russian espionage against USA figures like Clinton, Morell said.
Morell said Putin had flattered Trump into supporting positions favorable to Russian Federation and he discovered such flattering based on his long experience in intelligence world.
Trump’s running mate Mike Pence, the governor of IN, was dutifully dispatched to counter the assertion, telling NBC that “these people are playing politics”.
His endorsement could help Clinton amid renewed criticism over her use of a private email server. “I provided her – personally provided her some of the most sensitive information that the Central Intelligence Agency has”, he said. “So I may have short-circuited, and for that I, you know, will try to clarify”. A national McClatchy-Marist poll released on Thursday showed Clinton surging to a 15-point advantage, 48 percent to 33 percent. No longer. On Nov. 8, I will vote for Hillary Clinton.
Trump’s vice presidential running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, on Friday dismissed Morell’s comments, saying that “standing up to Russian aggression is going to be really different under a Trump-Pence administration”. When some wanted to delay the Bin Laden raid by one day because the White House Correspondents Dinner might be disrupted, she said, “Screw the White House Correspondents Dinner”.
But he then made a rare backtrack. In fact, I saw the opposite.
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In the Benghazi incident in which the United States ambassador and three others died, critics say Obama Administration officials tried to play down the role of Islamist militants in the attacks. But several of the new members-13 men and no women-are super-rich investors and bankers whose inclusion on Trump’s campaign could be seen as smudging his populist economic message and his claims to be fighting for America’s middle class. Further proof lies in his challenge of core US values, iterated in his calls to bar Muslims from entering the country – a statement that fundamentally “plays into the hands of the jihadist narrative that our fight against terrorism is a war between religions” – and desire to erect a separation wall on the US-Mexican border. Absent among the group is billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who has endorsed Trump and has been described as a master negotiator by the nominee.
