Trump suggested he could tell the officials briefing him were unhappy President Obama “did not follow … what our experts said to do”. She also flushed out several national security priorities if she is elected, including trying to take out the leader of the Islamic State and vowing to defeat the extremist group without putting US troops on the ground in Iraq or Syria.
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“I think that’s profoundly wrong”. “Not only did Hillary expose classified information to actors on her unsecured, I would say home brew, email server and that has weakened the decision making in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and it’s turned those countries into a breeding ground for radical Islamic terror”.
Donald Trump’s campaign and its joint fundraising arm with the Republican Party raised about $90 million in August, the campaign announced Thursday. America already has a small presence of Special Forces in Iraq, and Clinton advisors later explained that her position is that there can not be any massive military deployment.
“Last night was yet another test and Trump failed yet again”, Clinton told reporters during a press conference on the tarmac of the White Plains Airport here today, referring to the forum moderated by NBC. “Her claim that no lives were lost in Libya was an insult to the memory of the four fearless Americans who died in Benghazi”, spokesman Jason Miller said in a statement.
RNC Chief Critique: Clinton Didn’t Smile During National Security Forum: “Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus slammed Hillary Clinton Wednesday for seeming angry and not smiling more during a national security forum”.
“I would never comment on any aspect of an intelligence briefing that I received”, she said. “What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?”
“Madam Secretary, the latest RealClearPolitics average has you up by an average of 2.8 percentage points over Donald Trump”, the reporter said. “And I could see myself working that out”.
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Even the very network Lauer works for issued a post-forum fact check outlining Trump’s falsity. The bulk of the attacks, however, centered on Lauer’s failure to challenge Trump on the Republican’s assertion that he opposed the war in Iraq from its beginning, despite evidence of him supporting the war in a 2002 interview. He replied: “No. But when I do come up with a plan that I like and that perhaps agrees with mine, or maybe doesn’t – I may love what the generals come back with”.
