Outgoing President Barack Obama on Thursday (Sept 8) condemned Mr Donald Trump as unsuitable to be commander-in-chief, after the Republican presidential nominee blasted USA military brass and praised Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Both candidates faced criticism over their performances at the event: Trump because he said Vladimir Putin was a better leader than President Obama and Clinton because she claimed that the U.S.
“That is not just unpatriotic and insulting to the people of our country as well as our commander in chief”, said Clinton.
Clinton argued that Trump would let President Putin do “whatever he wants to do”. Both candidates believe they have the upper hand, with Clinton contrasting her experience with Trump’s unpredictability and the Republican arguing that Americans anxious about their safety will be left with more of the same if they elect President Barack Obama’s former secretary of state. Clinton was on the ropes defending her controversial decision to keep emails while she was secretary of state on a personal server.
“I can tell you from the interactions I have had over the last eight or nine days with foreign leaders that this is serious business”, Mr Obama added.
Mr Trump also flirted with revealing what he had been learning in classified intelligence briefings given to him by United States officials because he is the Republican nominee.
“I was very, very surprised”.
On Wednesday, before a room full of veterans, Trump took his adoration for the former K.G.B. operative to a whole new level, offering effusive praise for the Russian president during an NBC News forum on military policy.
He said that didn’t mean, however, that women shouldn’t serve in the military, and vowed more aggressive prosecution of rapists. Clinton restated her opposition to sending a contingent of troops into Syria and said she would not deploy ground troops to Iraq “ever again”.
Clinton said she will convene a national security meeting Friday with former advisers to Presidents Obama and George W. Bush, including Homeland Security Secretaries Michael Chertoff and Janet Napolitano, and retired Navy admiral Jim Stavridis.
“What I did was have a personal computer that was hooked up to a private phone line (sounds ancient)”, Powell wrote to Clinton. “I’m not going to be the electioneer pundit commenting on all these little things”. “I just watched her on the tarmac”. During the primaries, Trump repeatedly said he has a plan to defeat ISIS – but he told Lauer he would “call in the generals and ask them to give me a plan”.
Donald Trump speaks with Matt Lauer at the NBC Commander-In-Chief Forum.
A flood of Republican national security experts have instead chosen to back Clinton, helping bolster her case that Trump is broadly unacceptable.
Their first head-to-head debate is scheduled for September 26.
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Trump is the GOP nominee “because he won our nomination fair and square”, Ryan said, repeating his past remarks on Trump. Trump himself tweeted shortly thereafter, calling Clinton’s news conference “disastrous”.
