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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump trade shots in defence forum

House Speaker Paul Ryan, pressed about Donald Trump’s praise of the strongman Russian leader, trashed Vladimir Putin, but wouldn’t criticize the GOP presidential nominee.

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“Well I don’t believe that’s how you get things done in our country”, Clinton says in the ad.

And he said, “When you play not to lose so early in the game, you probably end up losing”.

“I’m going to make our military so big, so powerful, so strong, that nobody, absolutely nobody, is gonna mess with us”, Trump declared on his campaign website. “Now, that is not just unpatriotic and insulting, to the people of our country as well as to our commander in chief, it is scary”, Clinton said.

Clinton supporters were livid that he spent a long time asking her about her emails and didn’t challenge Trump when the Republican nominee falsely claimed he opposed the Iraq War.

“Of course anything is possible, but what is factual is the State Department system was hacked”, Clinton said, making the argument that her system was not less secure than the government’s. He noted Putin’s high approval rating was at 82% and told moderator Matt Lauer he was a better leader than President Barack Obama. I mean, look. You’ve seen incidents in this last week…

Clinton said she would convene a meeting of bipartisan security experts on Friday to discuss the fight against Islamic State militants.

The forum comes as an NBC News/Survey Monkey poll released Wednesday showed Trump leading rival Clinton by 19 points among voters now serving or previously serving in the USA military.

The Republican candidate shrugged off speculation by that Russian Federation may be trying to influence the 2016 USA election.

“We made the world safer”, she said. The first debate is set for September 26, and will be moderated by NBC’s Lester Holt.

Another moment that stirred up controversy was when Trump stood by a 2013 tweet in which he seemed to suggest military sexual assault is simply expected if women choose to serve.

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And for the first time, he opened the door to granting legal status to illegal immigrants who join the military. “He didn’t do it on a number of other issues and frankly, this criticism that he went a lot harder on Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, I think, is well founded”.

Trump, Clinton to appear in first-ever Commander-in-Chief Forum