On Sept. 7, during NBC News’ “Commander in Chief Forum,” Trump blasted the current slate of US generals as a national disgrace. He’s zeroed in on her controversial email practices at the State Department, calling her private email server “reckless”. But she defended her support for USA military intervention to help oust a dictator in Libya, despite the chaotic aftermath.
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Trump also contrasted his vision of USA foreign policy with Clinton’s record, accusing her of being “trigger happy and very unstable” and describing a Middle East that was more stable before her tenure as secretary of state. With recent national polls showing Trump has narrowed Clinton’s lead, that debate is taking on greater importance for the candidates as they try to shape the race before the November 8 vote.
A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) holds an ISIL flag and a weapon. “They will have 30 days to submit to the Oval Office a plan for soundly and quickly defeating ISIS”, he said. Sessions replied. “You can keep talking about it, but the American people are concerned about what we are going to do”.
There is an existing military court system, with judges, prosecutors and courts martial, but lawmakers have sought to change the current system to better address sexual assault.
Among the new Clinton endorsees: Former commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command Adm. John Nathman and former commander of Air Education and Training Command Gen. Lloyd “Fig” Newton, who was also the first African-American pilot in the Air Force Thunderbirds.
She “has taught us all how vulnerable we are to cyber hacking”, Trump said, adding that “this is probably the only thing we’ve learned from Hillary Clinton”.
“I think that when you serve in the armed forces, that’s a very special situation, and I could see myself working that out”.
As a businessman with no substantial national security experience, Trump was vague about how he is preparing for the enormous array of complex issues that would land on his desk as commander in chief.
“This will require military warfare, but also cyberwarfare, financial warfare and ideological warfare”, Trump said during an address in Philadelphia.
“She’s trigger happy and very unstable”, he said.
The two presidential candidates tried hard to polish their tarnished images as they appeared back-to-back Wednesday for the first time since they were nominated in July, at a forum on military and national security issues hosted by NBC.
Bixby noted that Trump has already promised to preserve social programs such as Medicaid, in part, by cutting waste, fraud and abuse.
Trump also proposed beefing up USA cyber-security measures, and he ripped Clinton again as mishandling classified information on the private email server she used as secretary of state.
Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid is getting a boost from William Cohen, a former Republican senator who served as Bill Clinton’s defense secretary.
“We support Donald Trump and his commitment to rebuild our military, to secure our borders, to defeat our Islamic supremacist adversaries and restore law and order domestically.” the letter says.
Those cuts, known as the “sequester” and valued at $1.2 trillion through 2023, affected numerous government’s programmes, in particular the Pentagon budget. Trump expressed support for the cuts in interviews in 2013 – even describing them as too small – but seemed to suggest at the time that military spending should be exempt, undermining the sequester premise.
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A Trump adviser, speaking on the condition of anonymity to share details ahead of the speech, said Trump would ensure the additional spending is fully paid for.
