Clinton cast herself as a model of “absolute rock steadiness” in foreign policy compared to Trump, reports the Washington Post, which notes that she seemed “guarded, even stilted” when dealing with questions about her email server and her vote for the Iraq War.
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He said in his Cleveland remarks that the withdrawal of USA troops from Iraq had left a power void filled by Islamic State militants.
Trump did not directly respond to Clinton’s critique Thursday.
While Trump supporters claimed Lauer disrespected their candidate, other viewers said the host repeatedly interrupted Clinton and never once interrupted Trump. “She referred to those people as ‘irredeemable, ‘” Pence said. She also touted the support of numerous Republican national security experts that have chosen to endorse her candidacy, helping bolster her case that Trump is broadly unacceptable.
“The generals under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have not been successful”.
In a rare press conference, she said on Thursday morning: “That’s how he talks about distinguished men and women who’ve spent their lives serving our country, sacrificing for us”. For months she has said she is sorry that she made a mistake – and then in the next breath adds she did nothing wrong.
“Republicans are just in a bad dilemma trying to support a totally unqualified nominee, I have no sympathy for them, it’s their nominee”, she said.
She said USA policies under her leadership at the State Department had helped promote security. “Those are people who we have to understand and empathize with as well”.
“We want to win for jobs, we want to win for strong military and for the vets, we want to protect our Second Amendment but I want to win for the evangelicals because they have been so good to me”, Trump said. “It was abundantly clear tonight that Trump is in over his head and unprepared to deal with the complex challenges facing our nation and the world”. That assertion is contradicted by an interview Trump did with Howard Stern in September 2002 in which he was asked whether he supported the invasion.
Matt Lauer had reportedly wanted to moderate one of the upcoming official presidential debates, but was turned down in favor of his NBC News colleague, Lester Holt.
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Donald Trump says he’ll be in St. Louis later Saturday to attend the funeral of Phyllis Schlafly, the conservative activist who helped defeat the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and founded the Eagle Forum political group. “And I opposed the reckless way Hillary Clinton took us out”.
