Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Wednesday defended her handling of classified information from a private email server at a televised “commander-in-chief” forum that paired her with Republican Donald Trump in separate appearances.
Advertisement
While Clinton and Trump will be featured at the Wednesday night forum, they will appear at separate times and will not face each other on stage.
Democrats and even some Republicans have painted Mr Trump as unfit to serve as U.S. commander-in-chief but he has made up some ground on rival Hillary Clinton.
“Those numbers do surprise me”, said retired Army Maj. “I know what’s going on”.
“Well, I think when he calls me brilliant, I’ll take the compliment, OK?”
The forum provided an opportunity for the candidates to discuss issues ranging from military personnel and national security to veterans concerns and their qualifications for leading the armed forces.
Mr. Trump ended August with $97 million on hand between his campaign and two joint fundraising committees with the Republican Party, his campaign told The Wall Street Journal. Mrs. He’s zeroed in on her controversial email practices at the State Department, calling her private email server “reckless”. “There are many people that think that that’s absolutely correct”. “It was something that should not have been done”.
Trump said Clinton’s handling of Libya proved disastrous.
Trump also angered many in the military community with mocking remarks against United States senator and former prisoner of war John McCain for being captured in Vietnam.
“They’ll probably be different generals”, Trump said when asked to square his request for military options against ISIS with his harsh criticism of military leadership.
He said he would ask Pentagon leaders to present a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy the Islamic State group if he won the November 8 election.
Building up the Navy to 350 surface ships and submarines from the current 280. She said she had “an absolute rock steadiness” to be able to make tough decisions, a not so subtle dig at Trump, who Democrats say is temperamentally unfit for the White House.
Chris Harmer, a retired commander in the U.S. Navy and a defense-policy expert, said the broader point that the military was overtaxed and underfunded in its current missions overseas has merit. Trump repeated his assertion that the USA should have seized oil from Iraq.
His 55 to 36 percent lead with the group comes despite recent remarks against the parents of a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq, members of the so-called Gold Star families who have lost loved ones in military service. “Trump has talked about putting more responsibilities on our allies”.
“Russia wants to defeat ISIS as badly as we do”, he said.
“The next president should do both things: Rebuild the USA military and call for our allies to do more. And I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Russian Federation”, he said. Gen. Donna Barbisch, a Republican who warned Wednesday that a Trump presidency could endanger troops.
Donald Trump says that his plans to increase military spending won’t blow a hole in the federal budget because he’ll save and make money elsewhere.
Calls to end the sequester have increased as military officials have warned lawmakers that the cuts jeopardize preparedness.
Donald Trump is proposing increasing military spending and personnel. “They’ve gotta now get into Mosul”. “We made the world safer”, she said.
Trump has edged ahead of Clinton in a new CNN/ORC poll, at 45% to 43%, while an NBC News poll of registered voters shows Clinton’s lead holding at six percentage points – 48% to 42%.
In an informal survey by the Military Times earlier this year, 54 percent of active duty troops, reservists, and National Guardsmen chose Trump over the former secretary of state.
Trump is eager to establish credentials as a leader who can steer foreign policy in a reasonable way.
Mr. Trump said his administration’s foreign policy would be “tempered by realism” and would encourage “gradual reform” in the Middle East.
Advertisement
A campaign official declined to say how much of the money raised for the joint party committees are allotted to Mr. Trump’s campaign, and campaigns aren’t required to disclose details of their fundraising to the Federal Election Commission until September 20.
