The presidential candidates, following the bombings in ny and New Jersey, sparred over who would better fight terrorism, with Hillary Clinton citing her experience as secretary of state and Donald Trump saying she had emboldened terrorists to attack the United States.
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“The most famous bromance going”, Clinton said, referring to Trump and Putin’s mutual public shows of admiration.
“I don’t know why their ratings are as good as they are right now”, said Greenberg. “If somebody looks like he’s got a massive bomb on his back, we won’t go up to that person”, he said on Fox and Friends on Monday morning.
Looking ahead to September 26, the night of the first general election presidential debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton, the Fox News host asked the GOP nominee if he would bring up his Democratic rival’s personal marital history with former president Bill Clinton.
Trump blamed the President Barack Obama’s administration for letting in too many refugees. “I think he’s very unfair on CNN”, Trump noted, before referring to the channel as the “Clinton News Network”.
She spoke to reporters on Monday on the tarmac at an airport in White Plains, N.Y., addressing the recent bombings in NY and New Jersey and the stabbings in Minnesota. Authorities were also investigating the stabbings of nine people at a Minnesota mall as a possible act of terrorism.
She said she’d been part of “hard decisions to take terrorists off the battlefield”.
The UN General Assembly taking place in NY has proved a canvas for both candidates to show they can act on the world stage.
Trump throughout much of the a year ago has called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.
At a speech in Philadelphia on Monday, Clinton called for vigilance.
Trump was criticized by both Democrats and Republicans for describing the explosion as a bomb shortly after the blast, before federal or New York City officials confirmed that as the cause.
Clinton touted her national security credentials at a hastily arranged news conference outside her campaign plane, accusing Trump of using the incidents to make “some kind of demagogic point”.
A us -led coalition has been fighting Islamic State mainly through air strikes in Syria and Iraq.
“Our country has been weak”.
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Clinton, who previously served as U.S. Secretary of State for four years and as a United States senator for eight years, did not explain how Trump was to blame for the government’s inability to prevent terrorists from attacking the homeland. “I ask Allah to deliver America to Trump”, said an ISIS spokesman on the app in August.
