Trump made his comments about Putin and USA top military brass, the latter of whom he said had been “reduced to rubble” as a result of the Obama administration’s policies, at a forum on national security and defense sponsored and broadcast by NBC on Wednesday evening.
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She continued, “No one who wants to assume the responsibility of being president and commander in chief should be making the kind of reckless and unsafe statements, and identifying with a regime that has some aggressive tendencies toward our interests”. And all of a sudden it doesn’t look as good as it did when you actually said it.
While none of the handful of Trump supporters who attended Trump’s speech at the Cleveland Arts and Sciences Academy said they supported Putin, many did support Trump’s statements.
The televised “Commander-in-Chief” forum on Wednesday, attended by military veterans, was the first time Trump and Clinton had squared off on the same stage since accepting their parties’ White House nominations in July, although they did not appear at the same time.
More than 50 Republican national security experts said Trump will make America less safe.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on Thursday challenged Republicans to respond to Trump’s comments lauding Putin.
“That is not just unpatriotic, it’s not just insulting to the office and to the man who holds the office”.
Russian leaders, American generals, sensitive e-mails, and more, all of it the stuff of the presidential campaign over the past 24 hours. She said it was a secret because he had no plan.
“They have said that they hope that he is the president because it would give even more motivation to every jihadi”, she said.
Hillary concluded her answer with a swipe at Donald Trump saying, “Donald Trump chose to talk about his deep admiration and support for Vladmir Putin”.
Clinton, meanwhile, demonstrated her fluency on foreign policy at Wednesday night’s forum, but still found herself defending her record. “The finance minister lost his job because he wanted Mr. Trump to come down there”. “You know what Donald, this is real reality, this is real people, these are real decisions that have to be made for our country”.
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“How can someone like (Lauer) not set the record straight on Trump’s bogus claim of being against the war in Iraq?” tweeted Glenn Kessler, fact-checking at The Washington Post.
