U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton greets audience members during a campaign stop at the 49th Annual Salute to Labor in Hampton, Illinois, U.S. September 5, 2016. He deduced, from the “body language” of those briefing him, that the leading Democrats “did exactly the opposite” of what experts recommended in several instances.
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However, Clinton and Trump did not come face to face at the forum as they were grilled back-to-back by the anchor.
“She made a bad mistake in Libya”, said Trump.
“We made the world safer”, she said.
In a move likely to enrage the brass in the Defense Department, Trump also blasted the current status of America’s top officers, saying they had been hamstrung by Obama and Clinton. “Their report answered all the questions”, she said. “But certainly in that system he’s been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader”.
He said Russian President Vladimir Putin and his USA counterpart Barack Obama had held a detailed discussion on Syria during a G20 summit in China this week.
“I believe when he calls me excellent I Will take the compliment, okay?” added the businessman.
Mr Trump has been criticised in the past for heaping praise on the Russian Federation leader, but on Wednesday he appeared unapologetic.
He later sought praise for the latest fall-out from his visit last week to the President of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto, which included on Wednesday the resignation of the country’s Treasury Minister.
U.S officials previously said the Russian government was behind the cyber-attacks on the DNC servers that led to WikiLeaks publishing 20,000 DNC documents prior to the Democratic National Convention. “These were not two people that were getting along”, he said.
Mr Obama said in Laos: “The most important thing for the public and the press is to just listen to what he says and follow up and ask questions to what appear to be either contradictory or uninformed or outright wacky ideas”.
In the forum, Mr Trump also said: “I was totally against the war in Iraq”.
Trump on Wednesday renewed his praise of Putin for having “great control over his country”.
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“I think it’s very sad, when you look at Barack Obama, as an example, lands Air Force One in China, and they don’t want to put out stairs to get off the plane”.
