Friday’s remark was reminiscent of Trump’s comment earlier this year when he said that he could shoot somebody in the middle of New York’s busy 5th Avenue and not lose any support.
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Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have clashed over national security again, Trump calling his Democratic rival “trigger happy” and Clinton arguing his proposals would make the world a more unsafe place. Clinton, many Democrats and even some in his own Republican party balked.
“That other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for a change”, she said.
US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has called half of Donald Trump’s supporters a “basket of deplorables”.
“We’re living in challenging times and that certainly was reinforced by the excellent discussion we had today”, she said after meeting with a bipartisan group of national security experts. ‘National security experts on both sides of the aisle are chilled by what they’re hearing from the Republican nominee’. The presidential election will be held on November 8. Trump has said far worse about President Barack Obama in appearances on US broadcast networks.
“The gentleman who stood up and said honestly, ‘You should be imprisoned for what you did.’ That was the tough one”, Trump said. “And it’s a war that, when we got out, we got out the wrong way”.
Critics of the network, which mostly targets audiences outside of Russian Federation, have described it as a propaganda arm of Putin’s government. Trump has said far worse about Obama in appearances on USA television networks.
Trump’s and Clinton’s intensifying political combat over national security came as Clinton’s lead in opinion polls has slipped in recent days.
“This just becomes more and more of a reality television show”, she said.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Pensacola, Florida. In particular, Trump’s false claim that he had opposed the Iraq War and his comment that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President Barack Obama drew fierce criticism.
The New York businessman also said he did not think Russia’s government was behind the hack of Democratic National Committee email servers.
Lauer allowed Trump’s false claim that he opposed the US invasion of Iraq to go unchallenged, while lingering on the issue of Clinton’s handling of email during the Democratic nominee’s tenure as secretary of State.
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Clinton at length discussed the news that North Korea had conducted another underground nuclear test, saying it was yet another reminder of the threats the United States and its allies face.
