It was meant to be an opportunity for voters to get a sense of both presidential candidates’ readiness to tackle worldwide affairs.
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At the town-hall style event, held at the Intrepid Museum in NY and sponsored by Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, host Matt Lauer asked Clinton and Trump to keep their attacks to a minimum.
National security and foreign policy were the big talking points but Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump didn’t go head-to-head during the so-called “Commander-in-Chief” forum. Lauer’s NBC colleague, Lester Holt, is scheduled to moderate the first debate on September 26. 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. “What I did learn is that our leadership, (President) Barack Obama, did not follow what our experts. said to do”, he said.
“As your commander in chief, I will not trash our country’s most cherished values”. Here are five important moments from that hour. “And I opposed the reckless way Hillary Clinton took us out”. “I will not trash our country’s most cherished values – I will defend them”. “I did exactly what I should have done and I take it very seriously”. “There were no headers”.
Clinton also said that Trump has no plan to defeat ISIS.
While each had a solution, they disagreed on how many veterans die each day.
Problem is, Clinton was right-and Lauer did nothing to push back against Trump’s false claim. She said that no matter what he says now, she and Trump had the same position on both the Iraq War and the Libyan intervention, NBC notes. We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again.
On the fight against Daesh, the Democrat repeated her stance of leaving ground troops off the table.
“We have broad support from across America”.
Much has been made about his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “About a Republican nominee who attacks America’s generals and heaps praise on Russia’s president? He trashed talked American generals saying they have been reduced to rubble”. But he also noted he still has “great faith in the military”.
“You have a fan”, Carvey said. The controversial leader has praised Trump, and Trump said he would return the sentiment.
“If he says great things about me, I’m gonna say great things about him”, he said.
One day after announcing he would expand every aspect of our military, Trump took on another important issue – education – in OH, a state vital for Republicans hoping to call the White House home.
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In response to a question from the audience on military sexual assault, Trump cited his tweet from 2013 in which he suggested that the epidemic was a effect of allowing women to serve in the military.
