Asked whether he’d be comfortable with Trump as president, Ryan demurred, “I’ll leave it at that”.
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But he was also harshly critical of the military, saying America’s generals have been “reduced to rubble” under Obama.
Trump also criticized his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for her foreign policy record, portraying the former secretary of state as unsuited to lead the nation’s armed forces.
“Immediately after taking office, I will ask my generals to present to me a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy ISIS”, Mr Trump said. “But we think that those shortcomings or those mistakes that she’s made are just plainly in a different universe than those of her opponent”.
Trying to emphasize his military support, Trumps campaign released a letter on Tuesday from 88 retired generals and admirals citing an urgent need for a course correction in Americas national security policy.
Trump is making a case for an expanded military while Hillary Clinton suggests trump is unfit to be commander in chief.
This appears to be created to make Trump a less controversial candidate among the existing Republican leadership, many of whom have bristled at his “isolationist” platform, which doubted the merits of some recent U.S. wars, as well as acrimony toward Russian Federation along the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation frontier in Eastern Europe.
Donald Trump has suggested that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had been a better leader than US President Barack Obama.
She drew an implicit contrast with Mr Trump when asked for the most important quality a commander in chief must possess, replying: “Steadiness, an absolute rock steadiness, mixed with strength to make the hard decisions”.
Yesterday, the Dallas Morning News set the stage for its endorsement of Clinton, publishing a scathing editorial that questioned Trump’s conservative credentials. “If you really do believe this President was born in Kenya, then I’m not so sure I want you to be my President”. “He said he doesn’t care if other countries get them, doesn’t know why they haven’t been used already”, said Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
I was against the war in Iraq because I said it was going to totally destabilize the middle east. Reporter: That’s not what trump said in an interview in 2002.
“That is not just unpatriotic and insulting to the people of our country, as well as our commander in chief – it is scary”, Clinton said. Almost half of those queried say they would vote for the Republican nominee, while 29 percent say they would vote for Clinton.
Trump’s address also included plans to eliminate deep spending cuts known as the “sequester” that were enacted when Congress failed to reach a budget compromise in 2011.
A senior adviser said ahead of the speech that Trump would make sure the additional spending was fully paid for but did not explain how.
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And earlier this week, for the first time this election, the Clinton campaign let press fly on the plane with the nominee and she even talked to them.
