At NBC’s September 7 Commander-in-Chief Forum, Donald Trump praised Russian president Vladimir Putin for having “very strong control over a country” and saying that Putin has “been a leader”.
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“Well, he does have an 82% approval rating, according to the different pollsters, who by the way, some of them are based right here”, Trump replied.
At the start of his turn on the stage, Mr Trump, who earlier on Wednesday vowed to spend billions of extra dollars to build up the USA military, struggled when asked to explain what experience he had had in his own life to qualify him to lead America on the world stage. Moscow has denied the allegations.
“I did exactly what I should have done and I take it very seriously, always have, always will, ‘ she said”.
“The man has very strong control over a country”.
“Certainly in that system, he’s been a leader, far more than our president has been”.
Appearing in the second half of the hour-long show, Trump faced questions about his fitness for office. It will offer a prelude of what to expect from them when national security issues come up in their three presidential debates. Trump said Putin’s praise won’t affect negotiations.
“You have the report of rape and nobody gets prosecuted”. Right now nobody’s doing anything.
“I view force as a last resort, not a first choice”, she said.
Mrs Clinton, meanwhile, defended her judgment despite her email scandal.
He further criticized US military action in Iraq under Obama, saying generals “have not been successful”. The issue has raised questions about whether she can be trusted to serve as president.
Trump had been publicly doubting whether Lauer would be ‘fair in the run up to the forum.
The candidates also took questions from an audience of veterans and active-duty troops gathered on the decommissioned USS Intrepid, which is now a floating museum in NY.
The Republican candidate for the USA presidential election Donald Trump expects to have very good relations with Russian Federation and with President Vladimir Putin if elected, Donald Trump told an audience of United States military veterans, Sputnik News reported.
“I have a very substantial chance of winning, ” he said.
Trump is to use his Philadelphia speech to accuse Clinton of backing “military adventurism” for her handling of conflicts in Libya and the Middle East while she was Obama’s secretary of state from 2009-13. FBI Director James Comey had said she was “extremely careless” in her handling of classified material but decided not to prosecute her.
Clinton said none of the emails she sent or received were marked top secret, secret or classified, the usual way such material is identified.
Clinton drew an implicit contrast with Trump when asked for the most important quality a commander in chief must possess.
Even as he said he would “take” Putin’s “compliment”, Trump insisted: “It’s not going to get him anywhere”.
“He supported it before it happened, he supported it as it was happening, and he is on the record as supporting it after it happened”, Clinton said.
The Republican presidential nominee told the forum the Russian president “has been a leader far more than our president [Obama] has been”.
“We are going to defeat ISIS without committing American ground troops”, she said.
Before a crowd including military members and veterans on the decommissioned carrier Intrepid in New York Trump said the generals under President Obama and Clinton have ‘not been successful’. Republicans and Democrats voted for the automatic, across-the board cuts that affected both military and domestic programs.
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.
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“She made a awful mistake in Libya”, said Trump.
