Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticized US foreign policy and the American political press corps Thursday during an interview on RT America, a state-owned Russian television network.
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Asked Thursday about Trump’s remarks, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov largely declined to comment, saying Russian Federation will judge both USA presidential candidates not on statements made in their campaigns but on what they would say after installed in the White House.
US President Barack Obama hit back at Donald Trump on Thursday for criticising his foreign policy record, saying the Republican nominee was unfit to follow him into the Oval Office and the public should press him on his “outright wacky ideas”. “And what we can not do is have a situation in which suddenly. countries that have significant cyber capacity start engaging in competition – unhealthy competition or conflict through these means when, I think, wisely we’ve put in place some norms when it comes to using other weapons”.
‘I think maybe the Democrats are putting that out, who knows? “I hope that if they are doing something I hope that somebody’s going to be able to find out so they can end it, because that would not be appropriate”. “If (Putin) says great things about me, I’m gonna say great things about him”.
Obama’s statement on the sidelines of the G20 summit in China, after he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, did not refer specifically to a recent hack of the Democratic National Committee of the Democratic Party that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing.
During a ceremonial photo with other leaders Sunday, Putin and Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, huddled with each other, speaking intently.
President Obama repeated his argument that Donald Trump is not qualified to be president.
“It’s a war we shouldn’t have been in, number one”, Mr Trump said of the Iraq conflict in the RT interview.
Had the Clinton-Trump race been held in Russian Federation, there is no doubt over who would have the upper hand.
“I don’t know anything about it, and on a state level Russian Federation has never done this”, Putin told Bloomberg News in an interview.
Russian President Vladimir Putin smiles during a ceremony at a Russian Chapel in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. He said Putin “has done so in many ways, in a very ruthless manner”.
“Frankly”, Obama continued, “we’ve got more capacity than anybody both offensively and defensively”. “The fact that our intelligence professionals are now studying this and taking it seriously raises some grave questions about potential Russian interference with our electoral process”, Clinton said.
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Trump also drew fire for criticizing the military.
