“I don’t blame Lauer for asking the email question”. If you look, she has a happy trigger. If she makes her medical records public he’d do the same, “100 percent”, Trump said.
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Trump’s address comes hours before his national security acumen is tested at a “commander in chief” forum on NBC that will also include Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Lauer asked both candidates to outline their qualifications and to not attack their opponents.
“It was abundantly clear tonight that Trump is in over his head and unprepared to deal with the complex challenges facing our nation and the world”, said the DNC statement.
Clinton, who has cast Trump as dangerously ill-prepared to be commander in chief, tried to center the discussion on her foreign policy proposals.
She pledged not to let the VA be privatized – as did Trump. He’s zeroed in on her controversial email practices at the State Department, calling her private email server “reckless”. She vowed to not send American ground troops into Iraq or Syria to fight the Islamic State group.
He said that, “sometimes we have to reduce bureaucracy”.
Clinton combined such evasions with outright lies, as when she pledged never to return United States ground troops to Iraq or deploy them to Syria-perhaps the first promise she would break upon entering the White House next January.
The former first lady said she would do “everything in my power to” prevent attacks on US soil.
He says he is proposing “a new foreign policy” focused on advancing USA interests, building regional stability and easing global tensions.
“On the nuclear issue, no”, she said. “We’re pleased to see the ban come to a long-overdue end”.
Donald Trump said Tuesday that if China had mistreated him on the airport runway he would have refused to get off the plane and would have left the country.
“I think my single greatest asset, of any assets I have, is my temperament”, Trump declared in North Carolina on Tuesday.
Asked to square his request for military options with his harsh criticism of the current crop of generals, Trump said simply: “They’ll probably be different generals”. Lauer also asked him to explain his assertion that the military’s senior ranks had risen through political correctness.
And asked about how to move forward in Libya, Mr. Trump said the USA should protect the country’s oil, but then quickly turned to a critique of Mrs. Clinton, saying she botched the handling of the civil war there, and the aftermath. “We have to have it fast”.
Rand Paul to the list of Republicans seeking support for the GOP as a bulwark against a possible Hillary Clinton presidency.
On Iraq, Trump asserted that the US should have taken Iraqi oil.
If elected, Trump said he would give military leaders 30 days to formulate a plan to defeat the terror group.
“Trump is – or has been – at odds with almost every GOP ideal this newspaper holds dear”, they continued.
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With just two months until Election Day, national security has emerged as a centerpiece issue in the White House race. Clinton noted that Trump’s support fell well below the hundreds of military endorsements of previous Republican nominees, boasting, “I’m doing better than any Democrat” in collecting such support.
