“I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Putin”.
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Trump’s praise of Putin, which he repeated during a televised national security forum on Wednesday night, has drawn sharp criticism from Democrats and some Republicans. If they are doing something, I hope that somebody’s going to be able to find out so they can end it. “Because that would not be appropriate at all”.
‘It’s a war we shouldn’t have been in, number one, ‘ Trump said in the interview.
When King asked Trump about news reports asserting that Russian Federation carried out recent hacks against the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Trump said he was unconvinced.
Trump also injected drama into the national security debate this week by wholeheartedly endorsing Russian President Vladimir Putin as a strong leader who has fared better than US President Barack Obama.
“I don’t know who hacked”.
First, there was The Daily Show host Trevor Noah, with a reference to the USS Intrepid, the warship where the forum took place: “Here’s a bit of trivia for you: Did you know during World War II, on multiple occasions, kamikaze planes crashed into the Intrepid? But I have absolutely no opinion on that”.
Trump responded Thursday during an event in Cleveland.
“What is Aleppo?” Johnson asked.
Ben Carson has some more advice for Donald Trump. “I’d rather it be Hillary and myself, because we’re the only two with a chance of winning”. As critics point out, he allowed himself to be steamrolled by Trump and failed to identify a blatant lie Trump made about his support for the Iraq war.
Clinton on Thursday said Trump’s comment was “not just unpatriotic and insulting to the people of our country, as well as to our commander in chief, it is scary”.
Mr Trump had told the forum in NY that the Russian president had “been a leader far more than our president has been”. “If I were in the Clinton camp, I would be very anxious about that first debate”.
After a press conference on national security, Clinton was walking away from the podium when a reporter shouted out a question about Trump’s interview with journalist Larry King on a state-owned Russian TV network Thursday.
She added that such a remark by Trump “suggests that he will let Putin do whatever Putin wants to do and then make excuses for him”.
“Typically, I will say, with intelligence briefings they really attempt not to give you a direction”, Corker said. “Having been through a few of these election cycles, I think Hillary Clinton will probably win, but I think the odds of her winning are like 3-1, not 20-1”.
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Clinton has said her experience in government as secretary of state and a US senator makes her uniquely qualified for the White House, and that Trump’s series of controversial comments makes him temperamentally unfit for the office.
