“That message where “I’ll give you America great again” is if you’re a white Southerner, you know exactly what it means, don’t you?”
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While Trump has leveled similar criticism in the past, doing so on Russian television could draw more criticism from those who have questioned his overtures to Putin, including a number of Republicans.
Instead of laying out a Middle East strategy at the forum, she said, Trump praised Putin and suggested the strongman is “far more” of a leader than US President Barack Obama.
The Clinton campaign blasted out a fundraising email that read, “Not only did the moderator, Matt Lauer, fail to fact-check Trump-he then kept the conversation moving”.
Clinton’s remarks also prompted an enraged rebuke from the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign.
“We’ve never seen anything like this”, she said, highlighting Trump’s call to bring back interrogation techniques deemed to be torture, and to kill relatives of terrorists. A series of Quinnipiac polls released on Thursday shows Trump leading Clinton in OH by four points, and tied in Florida at 43 percent each. “And it’s a war that, when we got out, we got out the wrong way”.
Trump and his running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, defended the comment.
Clinton’s campaign also announced on Friday that an additional 15 retired US generals and admirals were endorsing her, bringing the total number of endorsements by retired military leaders to 110.
House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan – the top elected Republican official who has frequently broken with Trump – again took a sharply different view from that of his party’s candidate.
Clinton, 68, and Trump, 70, have clashed repeatedly over foreign policy, but their battle rose to a new level Wednesday night when the two were separately grilled over their national security credentials at a NY forum.
“Vladimir Putin is an aggressor that does not share our interests”, Ryan said, citing United States authorities who believe Moscow is conducting cyber-attacks on the USA political system.
Trump’s and Clinton’s intensifying political combat over national security came as Clinton’s lead in opinion polls has slipped in recent days.
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