He assumed office on January 14, 2013.
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The Indiana Governor was at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California on Thursday delivering a speech making the case that there are “fundamental similarities” between Trump and the 40th President.
Mr Obama, now on an overseas visit, said: ‘I don’t think the guy’s qualified to be president of the United States and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed’.
Previous year – when Putin returned the flattery and called Trump a “talented person” and “the absolute leader of the presidential race” – Trump basked in the compliment.
He also recently told NBC of Putin in a separate conversation, “I’ve already said he is really very much a leader”.
Trump’s latest remarks came hours after US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said Russian Federation “has clear ambition to erode the principled worldwide order”.
Mrs Clinton appeared guarded, even stilted, as she navigated tough questions about her use of a private e-mail server as secretary of state and her vote for the Iraq war in the Senate, but Mr Trump showed no such restraint with a series of controversial statements.
Rival Hillary Clinton had criticised Trump for praising Putin on Wednesday, and this will only further exacerbate the school of thought that Trump has ties to Russian interests.
The segment, aired on Thursday evening, showed Mr Trump criticising USA policy, particularly the decisions first to invade Iraq and then, under Barack Obama, to get out of the conflict, in his eyes too hastily. “I frankly shudder to think what he could to US interests as commander-in-chief and president”, Farkas, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, told NBC News.
Graham, who ran for president himself on a platform of military might, was quick to commend Trump’s policy. The fact that this took place less than nine weeks before the general election will have Republicans anxious again about the competence of Trump’s team, and the damage it might do outside of the Trump campaign to the GOP. Mr Trump said. “Look, it’s not going to get him anywhere”. Trump said it was “probably unlikely”.
“The military commanders serve at the pleasure of civilian authority”. “And I’m confident that our military commanders can bring forward the ideas once the commander in chief makes the mission clear, and Donald Trump has made the mission clear”. “What Larry King does with the interview content is up to him; we have nothing to do with it”. He was at the presidential library to give a speech on the comparison between the two men.
“I don’t know who hacked”. “He’s been a stronger leader”.
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Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s former campaign manager, echoed those sentiments, saying that Putin was a “stronger leader” than Obama.
