Donald Trump bashed USA military leadership during a national-security forum on NBC Wednesday night, saying it has been “reduced to rubble” under President Barack Obama. Both Brown and Pierce appear to be more popular with OR voters than the presidential candidates for their respective parties. Clinton won a coin toss and will go first.
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Over the course of his campaign, Donald Trump has hurled a litany of insults at Clinton – including accusations of political corruption because of her ties to the Clinton Foundation, and her use of a private email server at the US State Department. But she defended her support for US military intervention to help oust a dictator in Libya, despite the chaotic aftermath.
“I have taken responsibility for my decision”, Clinton said on the Iraq War, which she voted in favor of but subsequently came to regret.
“They know they can count on me to be the kind of commander in chief who will protect our country and our troops, and they know they cannot count on Donald Trump, ” Clinton said on Tuesday.
Hillary Clinton is promising never again to send ground troops into Iraq.
Throughout the Republican primary, Trump insisted that anyone in the country illegally would be deported under his administration.
Donald Trump says he will give military leaders 30 days to formulate a plan to defeat Islamic State.
David Yepsen, director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University, said Clinton and Trump both face tests in convincing voters that they are up to the task.
This is a really big deal, guys! Donald Trump, 70, and Hillary Clinton, 68, have been bashing each other from afar throughout the entire 2016 election season, but things are about to get really heated on September 7!
Earlier this week, Mr Trump was endorsed by 88 former military leaders in an open letter, who declared the Republican nominee “has the temperament to be commander-in-chief”.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses a joint press conference with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto (not seen in the picture) after their meeting in Mexico City, capital of Mexico, on August 31, 2016.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton addressed questions Wednesday on issues from the Iraq War and veterans’ health to Clinton’s email use and Trump’s statements about Vladimir Putin and sexual assault in the military, during an NBC forum.
While GOP candidates are often seen by voters as having an advantage on military and national security issues, Trump is far from a traditional Republican.
Clinton and Trump are each in favor of a strong military force.
Appearing on the second half of the hour-long show, Trump quickly abandoned Lauer’s entreaties to avoid attacking his opponent and focus on what he would do if elected president on November 8. Clinton sought to reassure voters that she handled the information carefully and noted that there was “no evidence my system was hacked”.
Trump wants to increase the forces and the gear of the Armed Forces, and in the particular case of the Army, to increase the number of soldiers up to 540,000 in the Marines, in the case of the US Air Force, 1,200 fighter planes, and in the case of the Navy, 350 ships, including submarines.
Mr Trump said on Wednesday he would pay for his build-up by lifting the defence spending caps mandated by the US Congress in 2011 and known as the “sequester”. Republicans and Democrats voted for the automatic, across-the board cuts that affected both military and domestic programs, though the White House has long pressed Congress to lift the spending limits.
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Trump’s proposal to lift the sequester limits on military spending won praise from Republicans on Capitol Hill even as some acknowledged the reality that Democratic opposition might render it hard to achieve.
