Lauer asked Trump about a tweet he posted in 2013.
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Trump agreed it’s “a massive problem”, and something should be done. “Right now, the court system practically doesn’t exist”, he said.
Critics argue the military’s justice system has poorly served victims of sexual assault, but it’s not correct to say, as Trump did, that “nobody gets prosecuted”.
“26,000 unreported sexual assaults in the military-only 238 convictions”.
Lauer asked Trump whether he knows more about ISIS than President Barack Obama’s generals, a statement he has previously made. Clinton replied, “I have been somewhat heartened by the number of articles recently pointing out the quite disparate treatment of Trump and his campaign compared to ours- I don’t understand the reasons for it”.
Trump said he could tell from his briefers’ “body language” that they were unhappy with Obama’s leadership on national security, a statement Clinton said was “totally inappropriate and undisciplined”.
In August, one ISIS spokesman wrote: “I ask Allah to deliver America to Trump”.
“I have a plan …” “The man has very strong control over a country”, he said at the forum. I want to end their reign of terror.
Clinton also dismissed criticism following Wednesday’s forum from the Republican National Committee that she looked too serious and had not smiled enough.
The regret there might be for Lauer, who was immediately besieged on Twitter for letting Trump get away with a blatant falsehood on air. She vowed to defeat the Islamic State group “without committing American ground troops” to Iraq or Syria. Believe me, we have a depleted military. They’ve taken back Ramadi, Fallujah. They’ve gotta hold them.
Overall, two-thirds of voters say they are more interested in watching this year’s debates than previous ones; just a quarter say they are less interested. Given that she steered USA foreign policy while running the State Department for four years, she has the more complicated task of defending her own record – and her decision to use a private email server as secretary of state – while articulating how her stewardship of global affairs would differ in areas in which President Barack Obama has been criticized.
Lauer spent 10 of his 30 minutes with Clinton prodding her about her private e-mail server-understandable given that it’s a subject that many Americans consider a blot on her record, but it left him to rush through questions about what she would do about the Veterans Department and veteran suicide.
But Clinton defended certain emails, including information about the country’s covert drone program, as not revealing classified information.
Speaking from the tarmac at the airport in her hometown of White Plains, Hillary Clinton laid into Donald Trump for praising Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Trump’s fundraising total was first reported Wednesday by Fox News.
During today’s press conference, Clinton also reaffirmed her commitment to defeating ISIS and said she would make it a top priority to hunt down the terrorist group’s leader and bring him to justice as the US did with Osama bin Laden.
This week’s forum was an interview, not a debate with two candidates onstage at the same time, increasing the responsibility of the questioner to challenge untruths. I want to defeat them.
On Thursday, Trump said he would have voted against the war if he had been serving in Congress at the time. “Absolutely. Now we have to vet very carefully, everybody would agree with that”. “We are going to keep working as hard as we can”.
Clinton’s campaign warned reporters this week about covering rumors about her health problems and the coughing fits that have at times plagued her on the campaign trail.
“I have a whole section devoted to veterans’ mental health. And we’ve gotta do it with airpower”. We’ve gotta help people now serving not to feel that if they report their sense of unease, their depression, that somehow it’s gonna be a mark against them.
“I think that’s profoundly wrong. And I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Russian Federation”, he said.
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“Well, I think when he calls me brilliant, I’ll take the compliment, OK?”
