At Wednesday’s forum, the two major presidential candidates each received 30 minutes on stage to answer questions submitted by an audience of military veterans. There is no way that they would in any way signal displeasure with the policies of the president’.
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A defensive Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, assumed the traditional posture of a tough yet temperamentally steady would-be occupant the Oval Office. Let’s go to NBC’s Ron Allen, he’s been traveling with the President.
Wednesday’s forum served as a preview of sorts for Clinton and Trump’s highly-anticipated presidential debates. Until recently, Trump’s campaign was run by Paul Manafort, who previously worked in Ukraine on behalf of a pro-Russia candidate.
Clinton faces her own challenges.
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the Advancing 21st.
“Bizarrely once again, he praised Russia’s strongman Vladimir Putin, even taking the astonishing step of suggesting that he prefers the Russian president to our American president”, Clinton fumed.
“He supported it before it happened, he supported it as it was happening, and he is on the record as supporting it after it happened”, Clinton said.
Donald Trump gave an interview Thursday with RT, Russia’s state-sponsored global news network, in which he said it was “probably unlikely” that the Kremlin was interfering with the U.S. presidential election.
Reiterating remarks she made during a news conference earlier in the day, Clinton added, “I was trying to think about what other presidents would be imagining hearing that, coming out of the nominee for the Republican Party?”
“[Putin] has very strong control over a country”, Trump said.
‘I was very, very surprised.
The exchange could well be the first time in living memory that a candidate appeared to side with an American global adversary over a sitting president.
But when pressed about Trump’s comments, in particular, Ryan passed on responding. He has no military experience and has repeatedly criticized the skill of the armed forces. “If you were looking for competency, Donald Trump fell short”, he said in a Facebook post.
“Typically, I will say, with intelligence briefings they really attempt not to give you a direction”, Corker said. Trump said he gleaned that because he’s “pretty good with the body language”.
As nominees for the November 8 presidential election, she and Trump are entitled to receive intelligence briefings.
“Look, I have tremendous policy disagreements with President Obama, but Vladimir Putin is an authoritarian thug who is accountable to no one”, Rubio told the Guardian. “I have no sympathy for them: He’s their nominee”. “Our leaders did not follow what they were recommending”.
The Republican also repeated an incorrect claim that he was opposed to the war with Iraq before the invasion.
Trump came under fire from Clinton for suggesting that he would fire or bypass some of the Pentagon’s top leaders if he takes office.
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Clinton reiterated that she had made mistakes in relying on a personal email account and private server as secretary of state and in voting for the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a senator.
