Speaking to reporters after a NY security forum featuring separate appearances by the two candidates, Clinton also criticized the businessman for saying U.S. generals had been “reduced to rubble” by the policies of U.S. President Barack Obama.
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“We should secure it so that it doesn’t get taken by terrorist forces so that we can have some say and some control over the distribution of it”.
Last month, when a conservative radio host similarly said Trump meant the “founder” remark figuratively – that the Obama administration’s policies had created a vacuum in which Isis grew – Trump replied: “No, I meant that he’s the founder of Isis, I do”.
Clinton, a former secretary of state, said his comments on the briefing were “totally inappropriate and undisciplined”.
Clinton, who has said she is the candidate to unify a divided country, made the comment at an LGBT fundraiser Friday night at a New York City restaurant, with about 1,000 people in attendance.
The first, from Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, came on Tuesday.
“It suggests he will let Putin do whatever Putin wants to do and then make excuses for him”, Clinton said.
“If he says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him”, Trumpsaid of Putin.
In a July speech in Springfield, Illinois, Clinton said the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln has been transformed into “the party of Trump”, and she called it “not just a huge loss for our democracy – it is a threat to it” because her rival’s campaign “adds up to an ugly, risky message to America”.
Hillary Clinton: insists she had not been careless with classified information.
Several different types of viewers – Clinton supporters, journalists, TV critics, some members of the studio audience, and some NBC staffers – expressed various frustrations and disappointments about Lauer’s moderation of the forum.
The intensifying political combat came as Clinton’s lead in opinion polls has slipped in recent days.
Trump noted that Schlafly rooted for the underdog, and “the idea that so-called little people, or the little person that she loved so much, could beat the system – often times, the rigged system”. Trump has said far worse about President Barack Obama in appearances on USA broadcast networks.
The head of the Republican National Committee is describing Hillary Clinton’s description of Donald Trump supporters as “insulting”.
For Islamic State propagandists, Trump is the gift that keeps on giving. Trump’s vision of foreign policy seems to be a kind of authoritarian “big guys” club – stealing other countries’ oil, sacking generals, politicizing intelligence and buddying up to a Russian leader who may be running a covert action against the US political system. His argument that seizing the oil would’ve stopped the Islamic State is probably backward. “If we would have taken the oil, you wouldn’t have ISIS, because ISIS formed with the power and the wealth of that oil”, Trump told a mostly silent Matt Lauer, leaving his surrogates to defend this act of war that blatantly violates the Geneva Convention and Hague Convention. “That’s not only risky, it should be disqualifying”.
Trump sharply criticized Clinton on Friday at a rally in Pensacola, Fla.
“Hillary’s kind … smart, that’s clear”, she said.
Media fact-checkers, enraged by Trump’s serial exaggerations and tortured relationship with the truth, are on Clinton’s side on this one.
This was followed by a release from the Trump campaign hours later: “32 NEW MILITARY LEADERS ENDORSE DONALD J”. Afterwards, some of his supporters shrugged off his comments about Putin.
“You know, it used to be to the victor belong the spoils”, Trump said.
Trump is expected to speak at the Catholic service for Schlafly, who died Monday at the age of 92. And House Speaker Paul Ryan, RWis., told reporters, “Vladimir Putin is an aggressor who does not share our interests”.
Donald Trump’s bromance with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin seems unending. “He wasn’t saying that”, he said.
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Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill noted a previous speech in which she accused Trump of embracing a brand of US political conservatism associated with white nationalism and nativism known as the “alt right” movement.
