Trump also had harsh words for the American press.
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American presidential candidates are not prone to condemn their country before a foreign audience, even if they are fierce critics of the current administration while campaigning in the United States.
“What I want to do is I want to make America great again, and she’ll never be able to do it”, Trump said.
The candidates spoke back-to-back at the forum Wednesday night, each fielding 30 minutes of questions.
“No, I don’t dislike people”, Trump told Ora TV “Politicking” host Larry King in a Thursday night interview, when asked whether he disliked the Democratic presidential nominee”. But he also said he would demand a plan from military leaders within 30 days of taking office. “But, he didn’t know that – I saw that”. Trump then attacked President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Obama’s first secretary of state, for their roles in the US troop withdrawal from Iraq.
King this evening told CNN’s Erin Burnett the podcast and his Politicking show are two entirely different things, and suggested Trump knows that, having previously participated in King’s podcast. “And it’s a war that, when we got out, we got out the wrong way”.
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway pointed to the inconvenient footage in calling the former president’s allegations about Trump’s slogan a “disgrace”. Johnson made headlines this week after committing a big gaffe in an interview regarding his foreign policy. “We saw more evidence that he is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander-in-chief”, she said. He said he had not been contacted by Trump or his campaign since the kerfuffle broke out. She also fleshed 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 USA troops on the ground in Iraq or Syria. Speaking to reporters, House Speaker Paul Ryan called Putin “an aggressor that does not share our interests”. “Vladimir Putin is violating the sovereignty of neighboring countries”, Ryan said at his weekly news conference.
Hillary meanwhile was convening a Friday working session addressing terrorism and national security in NY with a bipartisan group of experts including former acting Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Morell, former commander of US forces in Afghanistan John Allen, and retired US Navy admiral James Stavridis.
On Tuesday, 88 retired generals and admirals endorsed Trump.
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Trump and Clinton’s intensifying political combat over national security came as Clinton’s lead in opinion polls has slipped in recent days.
