Prior to North Korea’s nuclear test, Trump said during a campaign appearance in Virginia this week that he would let China deal with the problem. It’s incompetent at best, especially considering the grief that Trump’s getting from Republicans over his continued praise of Putin. He also labeled Trump’s presidential plans as “wacky”, “contradictory” and “uninformed”.
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Hillary Clinton shook her head in disbelief when asked what she thought about Donald Trump agreeing to do an interview that was broadcast on Russian state television.
Seizing an opening after a string of gaffes this week left Trump vulnerable, Clinton told reporters here that the 2016 election is the “most important in our lifetime” that calls for “rational, confident and even-keeled leadership”. Trump also faces intense criticism for praising Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week, when he said Putin has been “a leader far more than our president has been a leader”. He wants Hillary elected because she will continue what he started, meaning she will continue with the destruction of the United States as we know it.
Standing in front of a row of American flags and white pillars resembling those at the White House, Hillary Clinton touted support from national security leaders, reminded the country of her role in killing Osama bin Laden, and chastised – with a touch of theatrical flare – her Republican opponent as clueless and entirely out of his element.
Topping off a tumultuous week was Trump’s appearance Thursday on the Russian-owned TV station RT America. I’m not sure anything surprises us any more.
Clinton meanwhile held a working session on terrorism and national security with a group of experts that included ousted former Central Intelligence Agency director David Petraeus, former commander of US forces in Afghanistan John Allen and former National Counterterrorism Center Director Matt Olsen. He said he disagreed with the U.S. decision to invade Iraq in 2003 and that Obama botched the withdrawal.
“It’s a war we shouldn’t have been in, number one”, Trump said in the interview.
It’s true. President Obama hasn’t invaded anyone in eight years, to Trump a sorry record to put against Putin’s annexation of the Crimea and encroachments in Ukraine, not to mention saber rattling in general in Eastern Europe.
During Thursday’s RT interview, Trump shrugged off suggestions the Russian government was influencing the American presidential election, instead hinting that Democrats were the ones behind the Democratic National Committee hacking scandal.
Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s former campaign manager, echoed those sentiments, saying that Putin was a “stronger leader” than Obama.
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Trump said the most surprising thing about running for office was the media’s “tremendous dishonesty”.
