Clinton, 68, indicated she will make Trump’s tax returns an election issue, saying the reality TV star is “dead wrong” if he thinks it is none of the American people’s business as before entrusting a President with the country’s finances they would want to know how the person handled personal finances. Lyndon Johnson deployed them in a war that should have been fought to win, but wasn’t, and his fecklessness has been imitated ever since, by Carter, Clinton, and Obama.
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She said that she “communicated about classified material on a wholly separate system” and “took it very seriously”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is “far more” of a leader than Barack Obama, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Wednesday, echoing previous praise for the Kremlin strongman.
“We need change”, the NY businessman said, arguing that he will bring a “common sense” approach to the demands of being commander-in-chief.
The military has become “so depleted”, he said, that it requires a large-scale build-up, including troop increases and more aircraft and ships.
Trump said it will be partially paid for through unspecified common-sense reforms. Republicans and Democrats voted for the automatic, across-the board cuts that affected both military and domestic programs, though the White House has long pressed Congress to lift the spending limits.
Also on Wednesday, Clinton’s campaign announced that 95 retired generals and admirals have endorsed her presidential bid, one day after a group of 88 retired generals and admirals signed an open letter backing Trump to reverse the “hollowing out” of the U.S. military.
“They’ll probably be different generals”, Trump said when asked to square his request for military options against ISIS with his harsh criticism of military leadership.
Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, earns the support of roughly 75 percent of Latino voters nationwide, the poll found.
Trump also says he would build up the Marine corps based on 36 battalions, a proposal sourced to the conservative Heritage Foundation, which has traditionally played a role in setting Republicans’ foreign policy agenda.
Both Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton will take part back-to-back in a national security forum on Wednesday.
Their back-to-back appearances, in 30-minute segments, to take questions from moderator Matt Lauer, members of the military and veterans in the audience, serve as a preview of their first general-election debate, set for September 26. Her case has been bolstered by numerous Republican national security experts who have spoken out against their party’s nominee, including former defence secretary William Cohen, who announced his support for Ms Clinton on Wednesday.
Overall, 47 per cent of voters who are now serving or have previously served in the USA military said they would not be confident in Trump’s ability to serve as an effective commander-in-chief of the U.S. military.
His address earlier in the day included plans to eliminate deep spending cuts known as the “sequester” that were enacted when Congress failed to reach a budget compromise in 2011.
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Mr Lauer asked Mr Trump about his tweet during the so-called Commander-in-Chief Forum in NY.
