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Clinton meets the press in rare Q&A

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton today said the “damage” done by her rival Donald Trump needs to be undone after the elections and underlined that the real estate tycoons “ignorance” towards Russian President Vladimir Putin is “dangerous”.

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Hillary Clinton this afternoon weighed in on Trump’s Larry King interview on RT America, remarking: “Every day that goes by, this just becomes more and more of a realty television show”.

The images of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump are seen painted on decorative pumpkins.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump once famously said he could shoot someone on New York’s Fifth Avenue and not lose voters. He added, “I hope that if they are doing something, I hope that somebody’s going to be able to find out, so they can end it, because that would not be appropriate at all”. “I think that, if there are ways to do business with Russian Federation, we should always be open to it”, she said.

Trump – who described himself as pro-choice prior to launching a Republican bid for president and has defended Planned Parenthood during his campaign – did not address his position on the issue when he spoke to the gathering on Friday.

The former Central Intelligence Agency agent and former Republican is so concerned about Trump’s ties to Putin that he entered the 2016 presidential election as an Independent candidate in July in an eleventh-hour bid to bring some attention to the issue. He has made himself a big target for his opponents, and Clinton has been escalating her use of his own words to deride Trump as never before.

Trump fired back at Clinton, saying her comments were an effort to make up for a poor performance during the security forum.

Energized by a raucous and rowdy crowd, Trump often veered from his prepared remarks, offering more provocative declarations of his platform and relishing the extended cheers he regularly received. The billionaire stated that Obama had reduced USA generals to “rubble”. He even said that the U.S. is a divided country.

Overall, Clinton and her allies are trying to make the election a referendum on Trump. He said he had not been contacted by Trump or his campaign since the kerfuffle broke out.

Clinton wasn’t campaigning so much for Missouri votes as she was shoring up part of her base.

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“It’s a very different system, and I don’t happen to like the system”, Trump said.

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