At the NBC News Forum, Trump touted the Russian leader’s “82 percent approval rating”, predicted he would have a “very very good relationship” with Putin, and compared Putin favorably to Obama.
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Trump and Clinton supporters went on the offensive on social media Wednesday night and Thursday morning, defending their candidates’ performances during the forum.
“Every Republican holding or seeking office in this country should be asked if they agree with Donald Trump about these statements”, said Clinton.
Ms Clinton said Mr Trump’s praise of Mr Putin as a better leader than Mr Obama was “not just unpatriotic” but also “scary”.
Putin is “very much of a leader”, Trump said in a televised presidential forum moderated by the USA network NBC on September 7, where he and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton were separately grilled over their national security credentials. “I’ve already said that he is really much of a leader”, Trump asserted.
The republican candidate is going to compete with his archrival Hillary Clinton for the position of the US President come November 8, 2016.
Ahead of Wednesday’s forum, Mr Trump delivered a speech in Philadelphia in which he called for a robust expansion of United States military capabilities and an end to budget sequestration on defence spending. Trump and Hillary Clinton appeared back-to-back on the same stage last night to answer questions. Asked to square his request for military options with that criticism, Trump said simply: “They’ll probably be different generals”.
Trump has previously angered many in the military community with mocking remarks against U.S. Senator and former prisoner of war John McCain for being captured in Vietnam.
An Associated Press Fact Check of Donald Trump’s immigration speech shows that the Republican Presidentian nominee repeated many of his campaign themes and left out key details. “And I saw, just two or three days ago, they looked like they were not exactly getting along, but I looked at President Obama and Putin staring at each other”.
Clinton vowed not to commit any more troops to Iraq and said that the USA would not put any ground troops in Syria, if she were to be elected.
President Barack Obama warned the public against Donald Trump’s outlandish comments. “I find it frustrating, but it’s part of the landscape we live in”.
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The White House said Mr Obama had affirmed his support for India’s participation in the Nuclear Suppliers Group, a consortium aimed at preventing civilian nuclear technology from diverted for military use.
