Trump has repeatedly criticized the Obama administration for exercising too much transparency while fighting terrorism.
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The Aug. 17 briefing is attracting fresh scrutiny after Trump said at NBC’s Command-in-Chief Forum that he divined that intelligence officials were “not happy” with President Obama.
A flood of Republican national security experts have instead chosen to back Clinton, helping bolster her case that Trump is broadly unacceptable.
Other top Republicans were less reserved.
Graham, a former presidential candidate, has often sparred with Trump and is one of his most vocal critics.
“I think I’ve already offered my opinion”, Obama said.
“Somehow behavior that in normal times we would consider completely unacceptable and outrageous becomes normalized” during an election campaign, Obama said Thursday at the conclusion of a southeast Asian summit meeting in Laos.
Clinton herself was intent on keeping Trump’s controversial comments alive. He said Putin “has done so in many ways, in a very ruthless manner”.
“Meanwhile, bizarrely, once again, he praised Russia’s strongman, Vladimir Putin, even taking the astonishing step of suggesting that he prefers the Russian president to our American president”, Clinton said.
Three people who have worked in the intelligence community told ThinkProgress Trump’s comments are both unusual and implausible. “She tried to make up for her frightful performance last night”, Trump said.
Pence refused to answer whether Trump has shared his secret strategy with his running mate: “I’ll keep our private conversations private”, he said.
As he often does, Trump took to Twitter in response: “Hillary just gave a disastrous news conference on the tarmac to make up for poor performance last night”.
President Obama repeated his argument that Donald Trump is not qualified to be president.
Meanwhile, some members of the media were caught in the middle.
The candidates spoke back-to-back Wednesday night, each fielding 30 minutes of questions.
Trump’s first debate is September 26, while the sole vice presidential debate will be October 4.
In her appearance at the forum, Clinton defended her judgment despite her email scandal. “I’m confident he’s going to acquit himself well”. Vox was among those pointing to a 2002 interview with radio host Howard Stern that contradicts this. He later praised the 2003 invasion on another show as “a tremendous success”.
Trump stood by a previous comment that appeared to blame military sexual assaults on men and women serving together, but added he would not seek to remove women from the military.
But it was Trump’s praise of Putin, a major USA foe, that garnered most of the attention.
Pillar views Trump’s remarks as crossing a line.
“And all of a sudden it doesn’t look as good as it did when you actually said it”. “I was very, very surprised in nearly every instance”. “The fact that he calls me brilliant or whatever he calls me is going to have zero impact”. “Maybe the Democrats are putting that out, who knows?” The current average of polls by website RealClearPolitics puts her at 45.6 percent support, compared with Trump’s 42.8 percent.
For their part, Democrats were at once dumbfounded over Trump’s latest verbal excess, gleeful over a fresh opportunity to portray him as unpresidential and irritated that he had not been not pressed more aggressively by Lauer.
“He prefers the Russian president to our president”, Clinton said in Charlotte.
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He denigrated active-duty military and praised Putin, she said.
