Trump also weighed in on domestic politics, declining to criticize Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson for a gaffe he made earlier on Thursday and saying unequivocally that Johnson should not be in the general election debate later this month. “Hillary Clinton and her super PACs have spent over $130 million on negative political ads, and yet we are virtually tied (or better) in the most recent national polls and leading in numerous important swing states”, said Steven Mnuchin, Trump for President Finance chairman.
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The presidential nominee who has often praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, criticized United States policy in Iraq during an interview broadcast on a Kremlin-funded television network. Trump followed that up with an appearance on RT, the Russian-government’s English-language network, in which he criticized the USA media and again raised doubts about the fairness of the US election process.
Donald Trump (L) greets then U.S. President Bill Clinton at the U.S. Open in Flushing, New York, U.S., in this September 8, 2000 handout photo.
The fact was acknowledged by the Trump campaign in its latest fund raising statement. Trump then attacked President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Obama’s first secretary of state, for their roles in the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq. “And it’s a war that, when we got out, we got out the wrong way”. Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who continues to endorse Trump for president, held out hope that in the remaining 60 days of the election, his party’s standard-bearer could develop a more realistic view of Russian Federation.
Trump and his running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, defended the comment.
“He is really very much of a leader”, Trump said of Putin.
House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan – the top elected Republican official who has frequently broken with Trump – again took a sharply different view from that of his party’s candidate. Putin’s foreign policy is based on a forthright assertion of national interest even in defiance of worldwide norms.
In that interview, Trump said: “I think the Iraqi situation is a problem”.
According to Politico, the National Archives has located but won’t be releasing 59 photos of Hillary Clinton and Trump at a fundraiser in NY in 1994 because they fall into the category of “personal records” and are not included in the Presidential Records Act. The current average of polls from website RealClearPolitics puts her at 45.6 percent support, compared with Trump’s 42.8 percent.
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“I don’t know who hacked”.
