Clinton, who has cast Trump as dangerously ill-prepared to be commander in chief, tried to center the discussion on her foreign policy proposals.
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Trump also renewed his praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his disdain for President Barack Obama, saying that the Russian enjoyed an 82 percent approval rating. The problem for Clinton is that it is hard to imagine an answer that would satisfy those who share the apprehensions the gentleman expressed, even after FBI Director Comey wrote that a Clinton indictment wasn’t a close call.
“This will require military warfare, but also cyberwarfare, financial warfare and ideological warfare”, Trump said during an address in Philadelphia.
“The problem is, Hillary Clinton is trigger-happy”.
“Not taking (action), and permitting there to be an ongoing civil war in Libya, would have been as unsafe and threatening as what we are now seeing in Syria”, she added.
In a later news conference, Clinton doubled down on her accusations, citing an article by former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matt Olsen. She touted the bipartisan nature of the meeting and vowed to work across the aisle as president to tackle national security challenges. He looks at a reporter with a disability and mocks him.
At the same time, Trump leveled sharp-edged criticism at US military leaders.
The first general election debate will not be until September 26, but on Wednesday night NBC News presented something of a prelude.
Trump’s speech on Friday comes after the candidate took the unusual step of criticizing US policy in a programme aired on Thursday night on Russian government-funded television network, RT, a 24-hour news channel that broadcasts in both English and Russian.
He said in his Cleveland remarks that the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq had left a power void filled by Islamic State militants.
Robby Mook said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Thursday that Trump’s answer for how to defeat the Islamic State group shows he had “no plan” in the first place.
“We’ve got to have an intelligence surge and we’ve gotta get a lot more cooperation out of Europe, out of the Middle East”.
“Actually it’s 22. It’s nearly impossible to conceive that this is happening in this country”, he said.
Putin is “very much of a leader”, Trump said in a televised interview, where he and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton were separately grilled over their national security and military credentials.
A message left with the Clinton campaign was not immediately returned.
Trump has made no secret of his admiration for Putin, who past year praised the USA businessman as “very outstanding”.
Trump went on to attack Clinton over her emails.
Donald Trump says that he had a “thoughtful and substantive” conversation with Mexico’s president on Wednesday as he kicks off a long-awaited speech on immigration. If we had a relationship with Russian Federation, wouldnt it be wonderful if we could work on it together and knock the hell out of ISIS?
The United States now spends more than $600 billion a year on the military, more than the next seven countries combined. “We’re to defeat ISIS without committing American ground troops”. He’s zeroed in on her controversial email practices at the State Department, calling her private email server “reckless”.
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“It’s just one more massive failure from a failed secretary of state”, Trump said.
