The Republican presidential nominee made his latest comments about Putin at a forum on military and national security issues hosted by NBC on Wednesday evening, but his stance isn’t new.
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It also comes a couple of days after a large national poll of likely voters by CNN showed that the NY real estate baron is now running neck and neck with the former Secretary of State.
That’s also despite having encouraged Russian Federation to “find” Clinton’s emails just six weeks ago.
“I think it’s probably unlikely”, Trump told RT America’s Larry King on Thursday, suggesting that “maybe the Democrats are putting that out – who knows?”
Trump’s appearance on the controversial television station could exacerbate an already icy relationship with the US political press.
A month ago, the same poll showed Clinton holding slim leads over Trump in Florida and OH and a 10-point lead in Pennsylvania, which hasn’t voted for a Republican presidential nominee since 1988. Make Trump president of America, ‘ she said in excerpts of an interview with Israeli Channel 2 today.
TRUMP: Asked about the problem of sexual assault within the military, said, “We have to come down very, very hard on that”. When NBC’s Matt Lauer began to point out some of Putin’s many political and democratic transgressions, Trump said, “Do you want me to start naming some of the things that President Obama does at the same time?”. Lindsey Graham slammed Donald Trump on Thursday for saying that Russian president Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President Barack Obama.
Mitchell seemed to enjoy Clinton’s new line of attack, that ISIS wants Trump elected because it would be good for them. “We were stablemates, and we did very well that night”.
Yes, Clinton spent much of her allotted 30 minutes during a televised “Commander in Chief” forum on MSNBC on Wednesday re-explaining her mystifying and damaging decision to use a private email server while she was secretary of state (“a mistake”, she allowed, even as she defended it).
“I’m not interested in giving aid and comfort to their evil ambitions”, she said. Read the transcript and try to find one sensible and substantive thing he had to say.
“Simply put, I’ve never been more anxious about our men and women in uniform being poorly led over the next four years”, he said.
It offered a prelude to how Clinton and Trump will deal with questions of national security in their three upcoming presidential debates later in September and in October. (Some NSFW.) A kissing Trump and Putin adorned a street mural in Lithuania earlier in this campaign.
Colvin reported from Washington. A qualified Commander-in-Chief wouldn’t even discuss a classified intelligence briefing in public, let alone make the absurd assertions Trump did to Lauer.
Trump’s continued unvarnished praise instead of unequivocal condemnation for Putin is yet another example of where the party’s standard-bearer has broken with GOP orthodoxy. Pence called it “inarguable” that Putin is a stronger leader than the USA president. He has – Barack Obama has a true democracy here with the Congress that pushes back because there’s checks and balances. But no matter how many times the Republican candidate for president says it, the facts are clear: He did not. The two reportedly talked several times a day. What about persecuting LGBT Russians is leadership? In 2015 it contracted by 3.7 percent, hundreds of billions in foreign capital has left the country because of worldwide sanctions imposed because of Putin’s actions in Ukraine, and the value of the Russian ruble dropped 127 percent.
Besides calling for an “ideological certification” of undocumented immigrants seeking citizenship, he used the platform on August 31 to attack Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on immigration.
Ultimately, all of this says more about the Republican nominee than it does about either Putin or Obama. A May NBC/Wall Street Journal survey found 59 percent of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of Putin, while just 8 percent held a favorable view.
“That’s not just happening in North Carolina”, the Democratic nominee cautioned.
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Never mind that the Russian strongman invaded Ukraine and seized Crimea. “It’s really quite amusing”, Clinton said.
