But she promised more help for Iraqi and Kurdish forces now doing much of the fighting against the group, a not-so-subtle dig at her former boss, President Obama, and his handling of the crisis.
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Trump, again said he was “against” the Iraq War, though he said he supported the invasion one month before Congress voted to authorize it, and praised the military campaign in Iraq in the first months after the invasion.
Whereas Lauer had been aggressive in his questioning of Clinton, he seemed to repeatedly ask Trump open-ended questions that he easily ignored or evaded.
The announcement came as the two candidates prepared for a national security forum on Wednesday night.
Questions over Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state consumed a third of her time on stage in the Intrepid’s hangar bay. “We have to squeeze them by continuing to support the Iraqi military”.
Donald Trump and his joint committees raised $90 million in August, a substantial haul for a candidate late to fundraising but one that still significantly trails Hillary Clinton’s enormous summer totals.
While Trump and his advisers have argued that Clinton did not learn from the mistakes of the Iraq War – for which she voted as a senator – and drove the U.S. into another blunder by arguing in favor of military intervention in Libya, Trump supported both of those military interventions.
She noted that roughly 200,000 troops were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan when she took over as secretary of state. Trump detailed a multi-point immigration policy during his speech.
Trump remained persistently vague about his plans for defeating the Islamic State group, insisting that he privately has a blueprint for taking on the terror group but wanted to remain “unpredictable”. Asked about his claim that he knows more about ISIS than the generals, he said the generals “have been reduced to rubble” under Obama.
Republican Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to boost defense spending and deploy more active troops, fighter planes, Navy ships and submarines as he works to convince skeptics in both parties that he’s ready to lead the world’s most powerful military. And for the first time, he opened the door to granting legal status to people living in the USA illegally who join the military.
“I will ask Congress to eliminate the sequester and immediately re-invest in our military”, Trump said in a speech at a rally in Greenville, North Carolina earlier on Tuesday. “And I could see myself working that out”.
Hillary Clinton is again saying that her vote in favor of the Iraq war was a mistake.
If Donald Trump makes it to the White House, white Americans will have handed him the keys. He replied, “Yeah, I guess so”.
This is Trump’s first event in several days, and the first since a new CNN national poll showed Trump beating Clinton 45 to 43.
A forum created to test the leading presidential candidates’ capacity for military leadership Wednesday night displayed as much unpredictability as the rest of this election, as questions and answers veered off-topic and both candidates were put on the defensive several times.
Trying to emphasize his military support, Trump’s campaign released a letter on Tuesday from 88 retired generals and admirals citing an urgent need for a “course correction” in America’s national security policy.
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Trump’s campaign moved to pre-empt the criticism from Clinton’s camp on Tuesday by releasing a letter signed by 88 retired USA generals and admirals who are supporting the Republican nominee’s White House bid.
