“The man has very strong control over a country”, Trump said.
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Still, the government’s most senior Republican stressed Thursday that he does not share Trump’s complimentary view of Putin.
The televised “Commander-in-Chief” forum on Wednesday, attended by military veterans, was the first time Trump and Clinton had squared off on the same stage since accepting their parties’ White House nominations in July, although they did not appear at the same time.
“Bipartisan is what I want to get us back to”, she said, speaking to a crowd of more than 1,500 in a gym at Johnson C. Smith University, a historically black university. “Trump admitted to supporting the Iraq war in 2002 before the war began though he did progressively change his decision publicly within the next year”, it says. “Hillary Clinton spent August attending 70 fundraisers; Donald Trump spent August at 34 rallies and speeches”, Trump Finance Chairman Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.
In the end, perhaps the best way to cover Donald Trump is the old-fashioned way: Just report what he says.
Clinton said the Iraq vote and the email server were both mistakes, but insisted that she had never sent or received material with a classified header on her private server. “.2016.post-labor.day.pdf”>CNN poll shows him ahead of Clinton by two points, though most other polls still show him trailing, albeit by a smaller margin than a month ago. “Well, it is a correct tweet”, Trump said.
On Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. should “take the oil” to defeat ISIS, Clinton smirked saying that is not how the fight against global terrorism will be fought and won.
“We are not putting ground troops in Iraq and we are not putting ground troops in Syria”, she said. But she defended her support for USA military intervention to help oust a dictator in Libya, despite the chaotic aftermath.
He argued it was the generals serving under the current Democratic president who were ill-prepared, and said he would change leadership if elected.
But despite his campaign and joint political committees’ best effort, it was still 40% less than the record-busting $143 million haul Hillary Clinton and her allied committees’ pulled off, according to CNN. Asked to square his request for military options with that criticism, Trump said simply: “They’ll probably be different generals”.
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According to factcheck.org, in an interview on September 11, 2003, Trump said, “It wasn’t a mistake to fight terrorism and fight it hard, and I guess maybe if I had to do it, I would have fought terrorism but not necessarily Iraq”.
