Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pledged on Wednesday (Sept 7) to massively increase U.S. military spending, and said he would asked his generals for a plan to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group within 30 days of taking office.
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Contrasting her long experience in foreign policy with Mr. Trump’s inexperience, Ms. Clinton said: “He says he has a secret plan to defeat ISIS, but the secret is he has no plan”.
During the national security forum in New York City Wednesday evening, Trump and Clinton won’t be on stage at the same time.
Mr. Flynn also backed up Mr. Trump’s saying that the body language from intelligence officials in briefings he’s received indicated they weren’t happy.
Keven Ann Willey, editor of the Dallas Morning News editorial page, says they didn’t come to the decision easily.
“It’s concerning that Donald Trump was potentially sharing information that he learned in his briefing”, Mook said on “Good Morning America”.
While most of those surveyed – 59% – said they would “reluctantly vote for the candidate of the party you usually support”, 13% said they might not vote at all. “We’re going to leave Iraq on a certain date”. “Stark contrast”, he said.
Some veterans and families of military members killed in action protested outside Trump Tower in NY on Wednesday.
Donald Trump takes 44 percent while Hillary Clinton gets 43 percent.
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.
“This is Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy legacy: failure and death”, Trump said to an audience of several hundred at the Union League in Philadelphia.
Also on Wednesday, Clinton’s campaign announced that 95 retired generals and admirals have endorsed her presidential bid, one day after a group of 88 retired generals and admirals signed an open letter backing Trump to reverse the “hollowing out” of the U.S. military.
And earlier this week, for the first time this election, the Clinton campaign let press fly on the plane with the nominee and she even talked to them.
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.
The relationship between the media and presidential nominees gives us a window into what will happen during a Clinton or Trump administration.
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“She’s trigger-happy and very unstable”, Donald Trump said of his Democrat opponent, calling her use of a private e-Mail server while Secretary of State “reckless”.
