Asserting that Donald Trump is “temperamentally unfit” to be the United States commander-in-chief, Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton today said her Republican rival has no plan to defeat ISIS that makes him not only “dangerous” but “disqualifying”.
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump battled Wednesday to stake out ground on national security during a Commander-In-Chief forum hosted by NBC News.
In the national security forum on Wednesday night, the two sought to portray themselves as most fit to be commander in chief, with Trump arguing that Putin is a better leader than Obama.
Mr Trump’s campaign manager said Mrs Clinton had insulted “millions of Americans”, with her comments.
Trump on Russian President Vladimir Putin: “If he says great things about me, I’m gonna say great things about him”.
As a mother herself now, Chelsea talked about her own mom, Hillary Clinton, and took a veiled shot at Donald Trump saying she never thought she’d nearly see the “normalization of hate speech” during this campaign.
During the forum, when pressed on what his plans are about defeating ISIS, Trump said he has a plan but he will not reveal it.
The forum came hours after Trump laid into Clinton as “trigger happy”.
“The generals have been reduced to rubble”, Trump said, before noting he had “faith in certain of the commanders”.
“To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the “basket of deplorables”. We have a country where you have Hillary Clinton with her e-mails that nobody’s ever seen where she deletes 33,000 e-mails, and that’s after getting a subpoena from Congress.
Clinton’s campaign also announced on Friday that an additional 15 retired US generals and admirals were endorsing her, bringing the total number of endorsements by retired military leaders to 110.
Clinton suggested she would enhance USA support for “Arabs and Kurds” fighting on the ground to defeat the terror group, which she said was her “highest counter-terrorism goal”.
Earlier, Trump had compared his business success to those who have sacrificed their lives in battle for their country, he had also criticised the parents of a slain Muslim soldier who had strongly denounced the real estate tycoon during the Democratic National Convention.
“It’s deplorable that he’s attacked a federal judge for his ‘Mexican heritage, ‘ bullied a Gold Star family due to their Muslim faith, and promoted the lie that our first black president is not a true American”, she said.
“I was very, very surprised”.
With the first major presidential debate just weeks away maybe Hillary and Trump were holding their cards close to their vest?
Trump repeats false Iraq War claim: “I was totally against the war in Iraq”.
In the radio interview on September 11, 2002, Stern asked Trump, “Are you for invading Iraq?”
“Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it”, she said, before stressing that other Trump supporters are frustrated and need sympathy. “I find it frustrating, but its just part of the landscape that we live in and we just keep forging ahead”.
NBC has yet to comment on Lauer.
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Putin is “very much of a leader”, Trump said in a televised interview.
