Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are focusing on the military, veterans, and foreign policy this week as they prepare for their first town hall meeting.
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“Sometimes it has seemed like there wasn’t a country in the Middle East that Hillary Clinton didn’t want to invade, intervene or topple”, Trump said.
News’ Matt Lauer moderates the NBC News-IAVA event at New York’s Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.
“This will require military warfare, but also cyberwarfare, financial warfare and ideological warfare”, Trump said during an address in Philadelphia. The vote has drawn criticism from Democrats who opposed the war and Republicans who have grown tired of years of foreign conflicts since 9/11. She noted that roughly 200,000 troops were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan when she took over as secretary of state. But troop levels are still only a tiny fraction of the force deployed during the earlier Iraq War.
By virtue of a coin flip, Clinton took the stage first and quickly found herself responding at length to questions about her years in government. The sailor said he would have been “prosecuted and imprisoned” for not following proper protocols. FBI Director James Comey had said she was “extremely careless” in her handling of classified material but decided not to prosecute her. “Nothing – and I will repeat this, and this is verified in the report by the Department of Justice – none of the e-mails sent or received by me had such a header”.
“She’s been there for 30 years”, Trump said.
If elected, Donald Trump said he would give military leaders 30 days to formulate a plan to defeat the group commonly known as ISIS.
“I have a plan”.
“I’m going to make our military so big, so powerful, so strong, that nobody – absolutely nobody – is gonna mess with us”, Trump says in a 23-second video posted on his campaign website.
“Don’t even start with that wall stuff again, Jimmy”.
The New York businessman, who has struggled at times to demonstrate a command of foreign policy, also seemed to acknowledge he does not now have a plan to address cyber security or the Islamic State group.
Attacking his credentials, meanwhile, the Clinton campaign continues to paint Trump as “unfit” to command the military and someone who would somehow bolster demonized foreign leaders like Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un.
She said she would “give our military everything they need when they’re serving overseas” and support service members with job training and mental health care when they return.
“Those numbers do surprise me”, said retired Army Maj.
“I think her judgment is very much flawed when it comes to understanding the Mideast”, the South Carolinian said.
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On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton’s campaign announced how 95 former generals and admirals have given the Democratic candidate their support.
The Democratic nominee also said she’ll do more to improve veterans’ healthcare.
“I know more about Isis (Islamic State) than the generals do”.
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Still, both are disliked by many voters and have fewer endorsements that past candidates. In 2012, Mitt Romney won the group 56-42 percent over Obama.
