“I’m asking to be judged on the totality of my record”, said Clinton, who grew visibly irritated at times with the repeated focus on her past actions.
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During the forum, Lauer quizzed Clinton about her email use while she was secretary of state.
Lauer brought up a previous statement Trump had made that he knew “more about ISIS than the generals do”.
Trump stood by a previous comment that appeared to blame military sexual assaults on men and women serving together, but added he would not seek to remove women from the military.
With regard to Iran, which Trump has spoken of antagonistically, he suggested that should the country harass a USA vessel, he would respond with force.
He pointed to Trump’s praise for Putin as a strong leader and Trump’s assertion that Russian Federation could keep the Crimea region – which it seized from Ukraine – as evidence that Putin has succeeded in getting Trump to do his bidding. As nominees for the November 8 presidential election, she and Trump are entitled to receive intelligence briefings.
Some of the criticism comes amid an ongoing debate over the way that the media is covering Clinton and Trump overall – as her supporters in particular have escalated criticism that she is being challenged on the tiniest of details while her Republican rival is being graded on a curve. “There are many people that think that that’s absolutely correct”.
Trump and his campaign have repeatedly praised Putin as a “stronger” leader than President Obama, and on Thursday the real estate mogul gave an interview on the state-owned outlet Russia Today.
“Vladimir Putin is one of the primary sources of instability in this world, and the thought that we would have a Republican nominee so “in bed” with Putin, I think is so discouraging and really a bad thing for our country”, McMullin said.
He also said that Putin has an 82% approval rating “according to the different pollsters”.
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During the forum, Trump also insisted on repeating a claim that has been previously debunked – that the businessman was “totally against the war in Iraq”. The only problem? In an interview with Howard Stern in 2002, he said he supported it. “But I was certainly disappointed that someone running or President of the United States would continue this unseemly identification with, and praise of, the Russian president, including on Russian television”, she concluded. Miller later said Trump wouldn’t have agreed to do the interview had he known it would be aired on RT. Trump responded, “Yeah, I guess so”. Last year, Boris Nemtsov, a high-profile opposition leader and former first deputy prime minister, was shot dead days in a public place just days before he was leading “a rally to protest the war in Ukraine”, the New York Times reported at the time. “That is a judgment issue”.
