“The best I can tell, his only experience is marching in the Fifth Avenue Israel Day parade”, she jabs. “Trump lies, he blatantly lies, and Matt Lauer moves on”, he said.
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Clinton called Trump’s comments “totally inappropriate and undisciplined”, and added: “I would never comment on any aspect of an intelligence briefing that I received”.
“Well, I think the dishonesty of the media”, Trump said. The national campaign is being supplemented by state-specific efforts to highlight Republicans who are crossing the aisle this November. Trump denied backing the war when it first started – though he did support it – before turning against the Iraq war months later.
“This just becomes more and more of a reality television show”, she said.
“It’s just one more massive failure from a failed secretary of state”, Trump said.
“I think I’d be a lot slower. He trash talked American generals”, she said.
She did not hesitate to share her own plan for confronting IS, saying she would focus on boosting up what the USA has already been doing in Syria and Iraq, vowing to “intensify our air campaign, more support on the ground to the Arab and Kurdish fighters”, while also “pushing ISIS towards the Syrian border and pushing them out of Raqqa toward the Iraqi border”.
The Clinton campaign disagreed, even going so far to attempt to fundraise off the event via an email with the subject line “Matt Lauer”.
The Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Corker, offered Trump a warning when asked about the relationship on Thursday. “What I did learn is that our leadership, Barack Obama, did not follow what our experts. said to do”, Trump said.
Yet despite Russia’s relationship to regional adversaries Syria and Iran, Trump warmed up to the Kremlin as a potential ally against ISIS.
Trump, in his speech on Friday, stuck to his belief that the United States and Russian Federation can work together to defeat Islamic State militants.
The two wrote to Trump that “you can not credibly serve as commander in chief if you embrace Russian President Vladimir Putin”. “It certainly appears that he is conducting state-sponsored cyber-attacks on what appears to be our political system”.
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Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway met with Trump supporters in Congress on Thursday morning, and Trump spoke with the group by phone to thank them for their support.
