During an NBC presidential forum Wednesday evening, Trump said that Putin has been a better leader than U.S. President Barack Obama: “Certainly, in that system, he’s been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader”, Trump said. The four most recent national polls have all showed the Republican candidate within two percentage points of Mrs Clinton.
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At a rally on Friday before thousands of cheering supporters in Pensacola, Florida, Trump had more harsh words for the Democratic presidential nominee in the fallout over their crossfire at a televised national security forum in NY on Wednesday.
“Well, I don’t know that it will hurt him that much, frankly”, Mr. Trump said.
“Bringing Islam into the definition of our enemy actually serves the goal of the radical jihadists and there’s a lot of evidence of that”, she said, citing a Time magazine op-Ee by Matt Olsen, formerly a director of the National Counterterrorism Center under President Barack Obama.
Clinton meanwhile convened a Friday working session addressing terrorism and national security in NY with a bipartisan group of experts including ousted former Central Intelligence Agency director David Petraeus, former commander of USA forces in Afghanistan John Allen and former National Counterterrorism Center Director Matt Olsen.
CBN host David Brody asked Trump whether he was referring to “what Michele Bachmann was talking about”, which was Clinton providing potential citizenship for “many of these illegals”, because “that means Texas and Florida could be gone”. The Republican presidential nominee.
Both candidates are hoping to capitalize on concerns about national security and paint their opponents as unqualified leading into the November 8 presidential election.
At the Florida rally, Mr Trump also brought up the controversy over his public embrace of Mr Putin that has opened up a renewed line of criticism of him by Mrs Clinton and his appearance on Russian television that have left some fellow Republicans uneasy. He said he disagreed with the USA decision to invade Iraq in 2003 and that Obama botched the withdrawal.
Period”, Trump said. “But once we went in, Larry, we shouldn’t have gotten out the way we got out.
“And it’s a war that, when we got out, we got out the wrong way”.
When asked about whether Moscow is trying to influence the presidential elections in the U.S., Trump said he believes it to be unlikely. Trump has said far worse about Obama in appearances on USA television networks.
“It’s just, I don’t know, I don’t see why she thinks this is good for her, but I think it just shows, you know, you can just sort of see a person at the end of the day, what they’re like”.
Hillary Clinton couldn’t resist answering one final question shouted at her at a press conference on Friday.
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And as #Hacking Hillary began trending on twitter, raising questions about her health, Trump shot back: “Mainstream media never covered Hillary’s massive “hacking” or coughing attack, yet it is #1trending”.
