Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled a plan to significantly increase the size of the United States military, calling for more enlisted soldiers, Navy ships and Air Force fighter jets, while also criticizing his opponent Hillary Clinton for her foreign policy record.
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It is scheduled that Clinton, and Trump, separately present before the audiences of the nation, tonight from NY by the chains NBC and MSNBC, to tackle their projections on the subject of national security, forum that experts see like an advance of the first campaign debate of campaign, one in front of the other on September 26.
Trump claimed he has a plan for defeating the Islamic State group despite a campaign trail announcement this week that as president he will convene a panel of generals to draft a new military strategy.
Clinton said the private email server she used was also used by hundreds and hundreds of users.
Clinton, who is not against a strong military, also said she believes that improving incomes of workers at home will lead to a stronger infrastructure.
The presidential candidates will take questions from an audience of veterans and active-duty service members during their back-to-back appearances at a televised “commander in chief” forum hosted by NBC.
Fifty-eight percent of Republicans say terror groups are even more able to launch a major strike against the USA than they were at the time of the 9/11 attacks, according to the survey.
State Conservative Party chairman Michael Long, in an online letter promoting the event, described Trump as “a political rebel who refuses to follow Washington’s go-along-to-get-along rules”.
Hillary Clinton is rolling out a list of endorsements from retired generals and admirals that trumps Donald Trump’s list.
In a two-part recommendation, The Dallas Morning News first brutally dissed Trump and then, in the second part, endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
When Lauer asked if that means Trump would take women out of the military, the Republican nominee said, “No, not take them out, but something has to be happened [sic]”.
Trump also stood by a 2013 tweet that implied military sexual assault is a result of women serving in the military, when asked by Lauer. He said he would make the government “leaner, ” in part by using attrition to shrink the workforce, and said he’d bring in new money by asking countries like Germany, Japan and Saudi Arabia to pay more for the security the USA provides them.
“Our results are so bad”, Trump said.
Trump has given mixed signals about whether he wants to increase military spending overall.
Clinton had on Tuesday intensified her call for rival Donald Trump to release his tax returns, accusing the billionaire of hiding something that might turn off voters.
Clinton reiterated her defense on the email issue and worked to turn the conversation to her experience.
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“If he says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him”, Trump said. “As you’re sitting in the situation room as I have on a number of occasions. what you want in a commander-in-chief is someone who listens, who evaluates what is told to him – or her – who is able to sort out the very hard questions”.
