Trump suggested at the event in which he and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton made back-to-back appearances that USA generals had been stymied by the policies of Obama and Clinton, who served as the Democratic president’s first secretary of state. She also spoke Tuesday, ahead of a speech from her vice presidential pick Sen.
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The event came hours after Trump campaign released a letter of 88 retired military officials who are backing the NY real estate magnate’s candidacy.
“She’s also reckless – so reckless, in fact, that she put her emails on an illegal server than our enemies could easily hack and probably have”, he said. Some of these are proposals Trump has previously discussed, such as asking US generals to bring him a plan to defeat ISIS within 30 days.
On the US intervention in Libya in 2011, Clinton rejected Trump’s criticism of her support for the effort as secretary of state.
She said: “They know they can count on me to be the kind of commander in chief who will protect our country and our troops, and they know they cannot count on Donald Trump”.
Trump said Monday aboard his plane that he was open to regularly allowing a pool of reporters to travel on his aircraft going forward.
A majority of voters said they weren’t confident in either nominee’s ability to be an effective commander in chief, according to an NBC News/SurveyMonkey online poll released Wednesday. The cost over four years to expand the Navy’s fleet to 350 ships would be about $13 billion; the cost of increasing the size of the Marines to 36 battalions would be about $15 billion over the next four years.
“There was one thing that shocked me”, Trump said.
According to Reuters, Trump wants to allocate funds for upgrading the USA military with new ships, planes and submarines; to bolster missile defense systems and to improve combat troops training.
In a briefing with the campaign, an aide previewed his address to the Union League, adding that Trump will begin a substantial increase in military spending, as the candidate has advocated before. Under my administration, we will end the weak foreign policy of the last eight years, rebuild our military, give our troops clear rules of engagement and take care of our veterans when they come home. If not, not. He still didn’t say what he was going to do.
Building those military defense systems will in turn mean new jobs for Americans and he emphasized jobs will be created in every state, Trump said. He would make the federal government leaner through “responsible workforce attrition”, make common sense reforms that eliminate government waste and budget gimmicks, and stop funding programs not authorized by law that he said accounts for $320 billions in spending by Congress. Pointing out only the United States and four other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation countries meet the requirement of spending 2 percent of the gross domestic product on defense, he said those not paying their share – including theh economic behemoths of Germany, Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia – have to do it and he will respectfully ask them to. “They will be happy to do it”, Trump said.
Trump says many bold things, and it can be easy to dismiss his past comments about his apparently nonexistent plan to defeat ISIS as just another example of his bluster. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Trump has moved away from that idea, while Pence and campaign manager Kellyanne Conway were coy about specifics of the immigration proposal.
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The event offered a prelude to how Clinton and Trump will deal with questions on national security issues in their three upcoming presidential debates later in September and in October. He said in a statement that Clinton is the “only candidate that has the experience, temperament, critical thinking and level-headed leadership to keep America safe”.
