Finally it was out of my hands and my producers worked with Donald Trump’s people, whoever they are.
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At one point, making a reference to 2012 Benghazi attack, Trump said “She made a bad mistake in Libya”, which was immediately responded by Clinton in words: “We made the world safer” by not allowing a civil war in Libya.
Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed over national security again on Friday, with Trump calling his Democratic rival “trigger-happy” and Clinton arguing his proposals would make the world a more unsafe place.
At the outset of the event, Clinton was pressed on what it takes to be a commander in chief, which she said called for “steadiness – an absolutely rock steadiness” and also “temperament and judgment”.
Trump praised Putin’s reported 82 percent approval rating in Russian Federation, even calling him “a leader, far more than our president has been a leader”. Clinton does marginally better among Democrats than Trump does with Republicans in a head-to-head race, while independents favor Trump, 48-39.
“If he wasn’t good with Hillary Clinton, he was awful when handling Donald Trump”, the host said. At a speech in Cleveland, he tagged his Democratic opponent with a new nickname – “trigger-happy Hillary” and repeated his incorrect claim that he opposed the war in Iraq “from the beginning”.
“But we are in a stronger position than we would have been to deal with this other malicious behavior because of the nuclear agreement”, she said.
Overall, Clinton and her allies are trying to make the election a referendum on Trump.
Clinton, who has cast Trump as dangerously ill-prepared to be commander in chief, tried to center the discussion on her foreign policy proposals.
Election day is quickly approaching, and voters in OH and Pennsylvania are split between both presidential candidates.
During the 2012 race, GOP nominee Mitt Romney – a virulent Trump critic – warned about Russia’s growing influence and called the country the U.S.’s biggest geopolitical threat, something then mocked by Obama and Democrats as hearkening back to the Cold War and the 1950s. “We’re going to leave Iraq on a certain day”, Trump said. That assertion is contradicted by an interview Trump did with Howard Stern in September 2002 in which he was asked whether he supported the invasion.
In 2014, Clinton said on NPR’s On Point that the reset “worked” and “succeeded”, because it was “a device to try to refocus attention on the transactional efforts that we needed to get done with the Russians”. Later, he said he’d be “crazy” to disavow the Russian leader’s praise.
The candidates spoke back-to-back at the forum Wednesday night, each fielding 30 minutes of questions. “Maybe the Democrats are putting that out – who knows”, Trump said of the Clinton campaign’s accusations that Russian Federation is trying to rig the USA election in Trump’s favor.
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“I believe that’s what Donald Trump represents, I believe that’s what Donald Trump can deliver”, he said.
