The Republican candidate for the United States presidential election Donald Trump expects to have very good relations with Russian Federation and with President Vladimir Putin if elected, Donald Trump told an audience of U.S. military veterans, Sputnik News reported.
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Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday that the Kremlin is watching the US campaign closely, but takes its rhetoric with a pinch of salt.
She said Trump’s statements are “more evidence that he is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander in chief”.
The Kremlin strongman is “very much of a leader”, Trump said, and “has very strong control over a country”.
A spokesman for Russian President Putin won’t respond directly to Donald Trump’s latest accolade for the Russian leader.
“It’s a very different system, and I don’t happen to like the system”.
It was the first time Trump and Clinton had squared off on the same stage since accepting their parties’ presidential nominations in July for the 8 November election.
Still speaking of Putin, Trump said, “I think I’ll be able to get along with him.If he says great things about me I’m going to say great things about him”. Trump went on to attack Clinton over her emails.
While saying Putin “is an aggressor, who does not share our interests”, the Wisconsin Republican grew testy when repeatedly asked during a news conference at the Capitol about Trump’s remarks.
“There was one thing that shocked me”, he said.
But he told Zakaria that “there’s no serious economist who hasn’t looked at this and said this is actually not only a smart trade deal, but it actually makes up for some of the failures of previous deals to have fully enforceable labor or environmental components”.
“Permitting there to be an ongoing civil war in Libya would be as threatening and as risky as what we are seeing in Syria”, she said.
The FBI is investigating Russian cyber attacks against the Democratic National C0mmittee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and alleged Russian hacks at major USA news organizations. Clinton said the Russian hacking was “almost unthinkable” and compared the intrusions into a variety of Democratic bodies to Watergate, the infamous break-in of the Democratic National Committee in 1972 by aides close to then-President Richard Nixon. “It is stunning that we are facing this and especially from a foreign power that has the capacity, with the consensus is that they have used, to extract information and to enable that information to be made public”. She also touted the support of numerous Republican national security experts that have chosen to endorse her candidacy, helping bolster her case that Trump is broadly unacceptable. He said he hadn’t wavered in his view that Trump is unqualified to succeed him in the Oval Office. “I could tell they were not happy”.
Clinton also claimed to reporters that after Wednesday’s forum, more retired admirals and generals have made a decision to support her candidacy.
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