Trump suggested at the event in which he and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton made back-to-back appearances that US generals had been stymied by the policies of Obama and Clinton, who served as the Democratic president’s first secretary of state.
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Earlier Wednesday, Trump pledged to increase U.S. military spending – already at levels far higher than any other nation – and to demand a plan to beat the Islamic State (IS) group if he becomes president.
“But I would say just analytically in terms of what happened, I thought Trump actually did pretty well and this should have been Hillary Clinton’s strongest evening, really”.
Wanting to be a firm and powerful leader who can stare people down like Putin is clearly something Trump aspires to, Khrushcheva said.
Pence was responding to comments Trump made the previous night at a “commander in chief forum” on NBC News.
“It will supposedly be a very positive relationship”, she told NBC News.
For the most part they refrained, though Clinton said Trump had refused to take responsibility for his initial support for the Iraq War.
“I believe with all my heart that putting a lid on Iran’s nuclear weapons program has made Israel safer; has made the region safer; prevented a nuclear arms race”, Clinton said.
“As to President Obama’s policies regarding Putin, I think he’s been weak, I think he’s been indecisive, I think Putin’s walked all over him but no, I’m not gonna say that Putin’s a better leader than the Democratic elected president of the United States, even though I have differences with him”, he said on Thursday.
“I think it’s probably unlikely”.
Clinton was repeatedly challenged on her controversial email use at the State Department and her vote as a senator for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
“RT if you agree: We need a President who is fighting for all Americans, not one who writes of almost half the country”, Obama tweeted in September of 2012. Earlier on Wednesday, Trump pledged to launch a new US military buildup, saying America was under threat like never before from foes like Islamist extremists, North Korea and China. And to some extent we’ve all become so anesthetized to Trump’s habitual violation of basic democratic norms that many Americans aren’t even paying attention to what Trump says about Putin. She referred to an essay written by Matt Olsen, the former National Counterterrorism Center director, who has argued that by making the Muslim religion a campaign issue, he has given jihadists a great gift.
While Trump’s praise of Putin may disturb many Americans, it could hearten others exhausted of years of tensions with Russian Federation. “Her campaign is to disqualify Donald Trump”.
Clinton provided more specifics, stressing DAESH would be defeated without U.S. ground troops being deployed.
Mr Putin is helping his ally Bashar al Assad by providing military support for the Syrian regime in their civil war against rebels and militants including IS.
A day later, after blowback, Trump claimed he was just being “sarcastic”.
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Clinton meanwhile held a working session on terrorism and national security with a group of experts that included ousted former Central Intelligence Agency director David Petraeus, former commander of USA forces in Afghanistan John Allen and former National Counterterrorism Center Director Matt Olsen.
