Trump spokesman Jason Miller told CNN that they were unaware King’s interview would be used as anything other than a podcast.
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Former President Bill Clinton says Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan is racist, despite using the exact phrase himself several times during his 1992 presidential campaign.
Trump, who has faced backlash from both parties in recent days for praising Russian President Vladimir Putin, was interviewed by Larry King, a veteran American journalist whose show airs Thursday evenings on RT America, the US partner of a network originally called Russia Today.
Trump said that it is “pretty unlikely” that Putin is interfering in the US electoral process.
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”, Trump said back in July.
Bachmann, a former congresswoman from Minnesota who made a brief run for the White House in 2012 and is an adviser to the Trump campaign, last week told CBN: “If you look at the numbers of people who vote and who live in the country and who Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want to bring in to the country, this is the last election when we even have a chance to vote for somebody who will stand up for godly moral principles”.
Trump’s first debate is September 26, while the sole vice presidential debate will be October 4.
Trump has based his foreign policy beliefs on keeping the United States out of what he called “endless wars” in the Middle East.
Others said they had plenty of advice for the man they regularly identified in conversation as “Mr. Trump”. He said he disagreed with the USA decision to invade Iraq in 2003 and that Obama botched the withdrawal.
On Thursday, Trump’s campaign leaders and surrogates did the TV rounds and defended Trump’s praise of Putin.
Ultimately the arrangements were made by King’s producers and Trump’s aides. (Some NSFW.) A kissing Trump and Putin adorned a street mural in Lithuania earlier in this campaign.
He also suggested that the allegation was politically motivated.
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.
“He’s been a leader far more than our president has been a leader”, Trump said during the NBC forum, pointing to Putin’s alleged 82 percent approval rating and respect on the world stage. The Arizona senator was personally close with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.
How Putin has gotten that approval rating might be troubling for many Americans. “It is a bad scene, its a awful site, but New Yorkers are very strong and resilient and they’ll rebuild quickly”, he said during the interview.
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In 2014, Clinton said on NPR’s On Point that the reset “worked” and “succeeded”, because it was “a device to try to refocus attention on the transactional efforts that we needed to get done with the Russians”.
