“If he wasn’t good with Hillary Clinton, he was bad when handling Trump”, Noah bemoaned.
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Social media users eviscerated host Matt Lauer Wednesday night during NBC’s “Commander-in-Chief Forum”, targeting the Today host for his disparate questioning of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump.
Mr Trump also blamed Mrs Clinton after reports that North Korea had tested a nuclear weapon, arguing it was the fourth such test since the Democrat became secretary of state in 2009 and that she should have ended the nation’s nuclear program before her tenure ended.
Early on, while describing attributes the leader of the United States should have, Clinton stressed: “What you want in a president, a commander in chief, is someone who listens, who evaluates what is being told to him or her, who is able to sort out the very hard options being presented”.
After the 10-minute interview, some criticized Trump for praising Russian President Vladimir Putin and critiquing American media on the state-funded news organization.
“If you think that Donald Trump is the only person in this country that thinks we’ve had a feckless, anemic foreign policy in the last eight years, then that’s just not true”, Conway said. He said he would demand a plan to defeat the Islamic State from the generals within 30 days after taking office.
“To a minimum, absolutely”, Trump said. “I was totally against the war in Iraq”, Trump told him. Now, it’s a very different system and I don’t happen to like the system, but certainly in that system, he’s been a leader.
“I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Putin”.
He went so far as to say that the hack of Democratic National Committee emails was not, actually, carried out by the Russians. She vowed to not send American ground troops into Iraq or Syria to fight the Islamic State group.
Fallon played down the seriousness of the incident, saying she was calling aides from the vehicle to reassure them about her health.
Mrs Clinton called the North Korea test “outrageous and unacceptable”, saying she supports imposing additional USA and United Nations sanctions. “I have absolutely no opinion on that”.
When asked at the forum about how he would stop the spread of global terrorism, “Trump’s answer was simply, ‘take the oil, ‘” Clinton added. But she has not discussed that option lately.
This was a big missed opportunity for the network-not to mention viewers-because the timing for the forum was appropriate; after all, over the past month or so both Clinton and Trump have rolled out dueling sets of endorsements by, in Clinton’s case, scores of neoconservative national security and other former military officials and, in Trump’s case, 88 former generals and admirals. “Maybe he did it with a smile and I guess the RNC would have liked that”. “I won’t take anything seriously that comes from the RNC”. Trump also claimed, however, that Putin’s compliments would not influence his decision-making as president. He was asked Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” what he would do as president about Aleppo, the Syrian city at the center of the refugee crisis, Johnson replied, “And what is Aleppo?”
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Reporters burst into laughter in response to the look of disbelief on Clinton’s face.
