That same day, both Clinton and Trump were featured on NBC’s “Commander-in-Chief Forum”. Heavily criticized for his handling of the “commander-in-chief forum”.
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Matt Lauer is getting pummeled on social media and in many media reports for ambushing HIllary Clinton last night and softballing Trump.
“I find it frustrating, but it’s part of the landscape we live in, and we keep forging ahead”. “But we are not taking any place, anyone, anything for granted. Now we should go in, we should stop this guy, which would be very easy and very quick”. But answers like this don’t work in a presidential forum and they especially won’t work when juxtaposed with Trump’s straight talk. However, in recent weeks that lead has evaporated, putting Trump in striking distance.
Clinton even did her best to banter with a press she clearly doesn’t much like or care for: “I like the hat”, she told one man. Again, Clinton assured that she never saw emails with a “header” marked classified.
According to factcheck.org, in an interview on September 11, 2003, Trump said, “It wasn’t a mistake to fight terrorism and fight it hard, and I guess maybe if I had to do it, I would have fought terrorism but not necessarily Iraq”.
When Lauer put forward Trump’s statement that he had more knowledge of how to beat ISIS than the generals, he described US generals as “reduced to rubble” under Obama and presented the often-repeated but ultimately ludicrous “take the oil” plan as policy. “We have got to take them on in the arena of ideas”, she said, adding that partnering with Muslims was essential for that.
“I think under the leadership of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble”.
“It is a blast from the Jim Crow past”, she said at the National Baptist Convention in Kansas City, Mo.
In laying out her plan to defeat the Islamic State, or ISIS, Clinton admitted that securing the American homeland would be a “huge challenge” for the next president.
On Thursday, Clinton also chastised Trump for using security briefings given to presidential candidates as campaign material. “Trump got mostly softballs”.
“I’ve always thought this was going to be a close election”, Clinton said, deflecting the first question about why she’s not far ahead of Trump in the polls.
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While the Today Show host managed to ask Trump several major questions about his controversial statements from the past, critics feel that he gave Trump too many open-ended softball questions, and did not adequately fact-check him.
