The controversy got kicked up again on Wednesday when Trump made an appearance on NBC’s Commander-In-Chief Forum and offered up a rebuttal to a criticism being leveled at him by his Democratic opponent in the upcoming election.
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So there you have it: Hillary Clinton is a racist, according to the very best authority – her husband. Viewers noted that Lauer challenged her on her questionable justifications, but also constantly talked over and interrupted her answers. “And undisciplined. I would never comment on any aspect of an intelligence briefing I received”, said Clinton. “The Iraq War began in March 2003, more than a year before this story ran, thus nullifying Trump’s timeline”, Esquire wrote.
“How can someone like (Matt Lauer) not set the record straight on Trump’s bogus claim of being against the war in Iraq?” Several outlets have released pieces taking issue with the lack of push-back and fact-checking on Trump, and the conversation spilled out on Twitter before taking form in #LaueringtheBar. Lauer asked if Trump still stood by that comment.
“I think that when you serve in the armed forces, that’s a very special situation”, Trump said. For months she has said she is sorry that she made a mistake – and then in the next breath adds she did nothing wrong.
Lauer asked Trump about a tweet he posted in 2013. When I want something, I get it. During today’s press conference, Clinton reaffirmed her commitment to defeating ISIS and said she would make it a top priority to hunt down the terrorist group’s leader and bring him to justice as the US did with Osama bin Laden.
The televised “Commander-in-Chief” forum on Wednesday, attended by military veterans, was the first time Trump and Clinton had squared off on the same stage since accepting their parties’ White House nominations in July, although they did not appear at the same time. I, at the same time, want to keep the court system within the military.
Trump and Clinton spoke back-to-back Wednesday night, each fielding 30 minutes of questions.
“There were no discussions about any of the covert actions in process being determined about whether or not to go forward”, she said.
Trump often repeats this claim on the trail as a way to hit Clinton, who voted for the Iraq war resolution while in the Senate. She also touted the support of numerous Republican national security experts that have chosen to endorse her candidacy, helping bolster her case that Trump is broadly unacceptable. Trump said he would take the Russian leader’s compliment calling him “brilliant”, and touted his approval ratings as president.
Speaking to reporters Thursday outside her campaign plane in White Plains, New York, Clinton said the United States’ top priority should be to hunt down and kill the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as it did Osama bin Laden.
He added: “Now, it’s a very different system, and I don’t happen to like the system”.
Mr Trump found new and interesting ways to show his tenuous command of policy details and shower questionable praise on a USA rival.
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“I hate media-on-media violence, but Trump’s support for the invasion of Iraq has been rather well documented”.
