Hillary Clinton on Thursday said Mr Trump’s comment was “not just unpatriotic and insulting to the people of our country, as well as to our commander in chief, it is scary”. And for the first time, he opened the door to granting legal status to people living in the USA illegally who join the military.
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She took only a handful of questions during the 10-minute presser, and none of them focused on two of the biggest issues facing her candidacy: potential conflicts of interest related to the Clinton Foundation and the storage of her State Department emails on a private server during her tenure as secretary of state.
She added, “He trash talked American generals, saying they’d been, quote, ‘reduced to rubble.’ He suggested he would fire them, and replace them with his hand-picked generals”.
Trump asserted that he would have a very good relationship with many foreign leaders, unlike President Obama, who he said was not accorded a red carpet welcome when he went to China recently.
“He’s been a leader far more that our president has been a leader”, Trump said of the Russian president. “You have a fan”, Carvey, as Putin, said. Putin “has very strong control over a country”, Trump said.
Trump, who has faced backlash from both parties in recent days for praising Russian President Vladimir Putin, was interviewed by Larry King, a veteran American journalist whose show airs Thursday evenings on RT America, the usa partner of a network originally called “Russia Today”.
Clinton’s argument that Trump is ill-prepared to be commander in chief has been bolstered by a flood of Republican national security experts who are backing the Democratic nominee instead of their own party’s pick.
Trump responded Thursday during an event in Cleveland. The current average of polls from website RealClearPolitics puts her at 45.6 percent support, compared with Trump’s 42.8 percent.
Trump, who has never held elected office, has criticized Clinton’s judgment for backing the 2003 Iraq war and her support for the USA intervention in Libya in 2011. Her tenure has brought us only war, destruction and death.
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Addressing a largely African-American congregation here, Clinton said, “I’ve made my share of mistakes” – and deliberately chose not to once utter Donald Trump’s name. “And it’s a war that, when we got out, we got out the wrong way”. Then when she finally gets around to talking about ISIS, because Matt Lauer’s allowed her to move on, he tells her to speed it up, because they don’t have much time. “I don’t understand the reasons for it”. If we don’t win this election, you’ll never see another Republican and you’ll have a whole different church structure.
