Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton confronted their key weaknesses in a televised national security forum.
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“What’s truly deplorable isn’t just that Hillary Clinton made an inexcusable mistake in front of wealthy donors and reporters happened to be around to catch it, it’s that Clinton revealed just how little she thinks of the hard-working men and women of America”, Trump senior communications adviser Jason Miller said in a statement. In a number of critical battleground states, the two candidates are running neck and neck, virtually tied in Florida and Ohio.
“I would never comment on any aspect of an intelligence briefing I received”, said Clinton, a former secretary of state, before boarding her campaign plane. But her judgment has been called into question regarding that email server, and a veteran in the crowd told her she had “clearly corrupted our national security”, and that if he had mishandled classified information similarly “I would have been prosecuted and imprisoned”.
274-a-10-(Donald Trump, Republican presidential candidate, in broadcast of Commander-in-Chief Presidential Forum)-“for our country”-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says he does have a plan for defeating the Islamic State group and repeats his assertion that he know more about the terrorists than the generals do”.
Clinton supporters were livid that he spent a long time asking her about her emails and didn’t challenge Trump when the Republican nominee falsely claimed he opposed the Iraq War.
Wednesday night, at the “Commander-in-Chief Forum” hosted by NBC News, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton took aim at Trump’s prior claims that he disapproved of the war.
Both playing conservative, a move that may set themselves up for the debate. The current average of polls by website RealClearPolitics puts her at 45.6 percent support, compared to Trump’s 42.8 percent.
Clinton’s campaign manager went on to attack Trump this morning on “GMA”, arguing that Trump doesn’t have a strategy to combat ISIS.
“The generals under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have not been successful”, he said.
“If he says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him”, Trump said of the Russian president.
“Here is what I want you to really hear, because even I was shocked by this”.
“Nobody directs or inspires attacks against the United States and gets away with it”, she said, comparing the mission to the 2011 killing of the al-Qaida leader who directed the September 11 attacks that killed almost 3,000.
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Donald Trump Jr, the candidate’s son, shared a post yesterday from Infowars, a website known for spreading conspiracy theories, which alleged that Mrs Clinton had been wearing an earpiece during the forum so her staff could help her respond to questions.
