U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton reflected on her religious faith on Thursday during the first of a series of speeches her campaign said would focus on her values and vision rather than those of Republican opponent Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump said Friday Hillary Clinton could “shoot somebody” in public and not be prosecuted for it – a comment similar to one the Republican presidential nominee made about himself during the primaries.
On the Presidential forum of NBC News Trump praised Putin’s leadership capabilities and the approval rating of 82% that he had.
After all, this forum – on foreign affairs and national security – was in Clinton’s ballpark.
He did not say he opposed the war in that interview.
Responding to a question, Trump called Clinton a “bad person” and alleged that she would be a “disaster” for evangelicals. Trump, also spoke of USA policy in Iraq Friday.
“Did you know during World War II, on multiple occasions, kamikaze planes crashed into the Intrepid, and last night, Matt Lauer continued that tradition?” the host said on Thursday’s episode of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”. “It’s grace that lifts us up and grace that leads us home”.
He joked that the Today show host was the obvious choice for moderating a forum about national security. Trump then attacked Obama and Clinton, the president’s first secretary of state, for their roles in the US troop withdrawal from Iraq.
Trump did little to counter the criticism that he lacks detailed policy proposals, particularly regarding the Islamic State group. They were hoping Trump would say something so dumb, or so outrageous that it would be the big takeaway from the evening. But he was also harshly critical of the military, saying America’s generals have been “reduced to rubble” under Obama.
He thinks Russian premier Vladimir Putin is “far more of a leader, far more than our president has been a leader”.
“I support President Obama’s call to both strengthen the sanctions passed earlier this year with the United Nations and to impose additional sanctions”, Clinton said in a statement.
“I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Putin”. “But it’s part of the landscape we live in”. “Because if he wasn’t good with Hillary Clinton, he was awful when handling Trump – he just let Trump get away with blatant lies” about his positions on Iraq.
House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan – the top elected Republican official who has frequently broken with Trump – again took a sharply different view from that of his party’s candidate. Those attending include Michael Chertoff, who served as Homeland Security secretary under President George W. Bush.
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Trump and Clinton will square off directly in their first presidential debate on September 26, with two more scheduled before the November 8 election. Johnson would need to earn 15% support in polls to make the stage, an effort seemingly hampered when he failed to identify the war-torn city of Aleppo, Syria, in a live television interview.
