Donald Trump declared on Wednesday that Russia’s Vladimir Putin had been a better leader than U.S. President Barack Obama, as the Republican presidential nominee used a televised forum to argue he was best equipped to reassert America’s global leadership.
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Pence agreed with the Republican presidential nominee after being pressed on the issue Thursday by CNN’s Dana Bash.
“If he says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him”, Trump said of Putin at NBC’s Commander-in-Chief forum attended by military veterans.
Pence doubled down, saying: “It’s inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a in his country than Barack Obama has been in this country”.
It offered a prelude to how Clinton and Trump will deal with questions of national security in their three upcoming presidential debates later in September and in October. He commented on the hacking of the Democratic National Committee earlier this year, believed to be sourced back to Russian influence trying to sway the USA election.
“I don’t like talking about it, to be honest with you”, he told host Larry King on RT America’s “Politicking” late Thursday”. Putin “has very strong control over a country”, Trump said. “It’s probably unlikely”, Trump said when asked if Russians were to be blamed.
“Getting al-Baghdadi will require efforts at the top levels, but it will send a resounding message that nobody directs or inspires attacks against the United States and gets away with it”, she said.
“We need a dialogue with Russian Federation, nobody wants World War III”, he said.
Johnson is on record supporting Trump’s candidacy.
A startled Republican South Carolina Senator and former presidential candidate Lindsey Graham, responding to his party’s candidate, told reporters: “If you’re running for leader of the free world and you’re expressing admiration for Putin, well then you’re losing me”. “I think it seems to be just a, you know, a habit, a way of speaking for him”.
The bombastic mogul will face Hillary Clinton in November’s election, which the Democratic former first lady is tipped to win. “And I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Russia”, Trump said at a “commander in chief” forum on the decommissioned USS Intrepid, now a floating museum, here yesterday.
“I realize this raises tensions”, Obama said earlier Thursday about the ruling. “What would Ronald Reagan say about a Republican nominee who attacks American generals and heaps praise on Russia’s president?” “I don’t know anyone who hasn’t”, said Clinton.
“We’ve never seen anything like this”, she said, highlighting Trump’s call to bring back interrogation techniques deemed to be torture, and to kill relatives of terrorists.
“Last night was yet another test, and Donald Trump failed yet again”, Clinton said Thursday morning, in what was her first formal press conference.
Clinton pointed to the U.S. military code of honor, saying “that, Donald Trump, … is what we’re going to stand up and defend in the face of your outrageous, disgraceful attacks on the men and women of our armed forces”.
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“With the Clintons, it’s all about the money”, Upshur said.
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