As Hillary Clinton was leaving the podium following a brief statement and answering a few questions regarding her meeting with national security leaders on Friday, she stopped to answer a shouted question about Donald Trump’s praise of Vladimir Putin. This bodies were adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from The U.S. Army’s Flickr photostream.
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That’s also despite having encouraged Russian Federation to “find” Clinton’s emails just six weeks ago.
“But let’s be clear, what’s really “deplorable” is that Donald Trump hired a major advocate for the so-called “alt-right” movement to run his campaign and that David Duke and other white supremacists see him as a champion of their values”, Clinton said, referring to Bannon.
“I want to defeat them”, she said.
DANA PERINO (CO-HOST): It’s hosted by Russian television.
“Hillary Clinton’s North Korean policy is just one more calamitous diplomatic failure from a failed Secretary of State”, Trump spokesman Jason Miller said in a statement.
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”, Trump said back in July.
Yet the Republican nominee’s operation on Thursday indicated no discomfort with the mounting criticism, with Trump running mate Mike Pence echoing the distinction made between Putin and Obama.
The interview was striking given that Trump spent Thursday on the defensive over some of his laudatory comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“We have got to specifically target [Abu Bakr al-] Baghdadi”.
He noted that Russian leader Boris Yeltsin, who had recently died, “stood against Soviet totalitarianism, stood for democracy in his country” but he feared “this experiment in freedom and democracy, and particularly a free press in Russia, is passing into history as well”.
“I’m not interested in giving aid and comfort to their evil ambitions”, Clinton said. He said I’m a genius. “His questions to me were very tough”. Trump even cited Putin’s 82 percent approval rating in a country that is not a democracy as supporting evidence. Asked by King if he agreed with Putin’s assessment, Trump declined to pass judgment.
The Washington Post reported that “there is strong evidence that Trump’s businesses have received significant funding from Russian investors” and his son, Donald Jr., has boasted that Russian money “make [s] up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets”.
Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, defended Trump’s appearance to CNN’s Chris Cuomo on “New Day” on Friday, saying that Trump wasn’t criticizing the USA to say the Iraq War was a failure.
Trump’s continued unvarnished praise instead of unequivocal condemnation for Putin is yet another example of where the party’s standard-bearer has broken with GOP orthodoxy.
She also expressed empathy for Trump supporters who are not racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, or Islomophobic.
GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has stated that the US should have taken over the oil reserves of Iraq after the 2003 invasion. “How can she be president of our country when she has such contempt and disdain for so many great Americans?” The two reportedly talked several times a day.
The idea that somehow Putin is preferable to Obama is unpatriotic, un-democratic, and reflects an utter lack of appreciation for the basic ideas and principles that define American democracy.
Nine weeks from Election Day, the electoral math favors Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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Trump has expressed the desire to strengthen USA ties with Russian Federation, which is subject to US economic sanctions for its annexation of Crimea and aggressions toward Ukraine.
