The two wrote to Trump that “you can not credibly serve as commander in chief if you embrace Russian President Vladimir Putin”.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has often praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, criticized US policy in Iraq during an interview broadcast on a Kremlin-funded television network.
Trump then attacked President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Obama’s first secretary of state, for their roles in the US troop withdrawal from Iraq.
It might not be intentional, but there appears to be an arms race between the campaigns of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to see who can gather more endorsements from military officials. He has repeatedly denounced the FBI’s decision not to prosecute Clinton for her use of a private email server and the handling of classified information.
Among Trump’s comments was his extensive praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin – Trump even went as far as to say he was a better leader than Barack Obama.
Obama also hit back at Trump for criticizing his foreign policy record, saying the Republican nominee was unfit to follow him into the Oval Office and the public should press Trump on his “outright wacky ideas”. National security experts have argued that Trump’s call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” helps ISIS by alienating Muslims from the United States. Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson claimed only about 4 percent in the poll, though the most recent CNN/ORC national poll has his support pegged at 7 percent.
The former secretary of state vowed to defeat the Islamic State group, though she emphasised: “We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again”. “The man has very strong control over a country”, Trump said.
Earlier on Wednesday, Trump pledged to launch a new US military buildup, saying America was under threat like never before from foes like Islamist extremists, North Korea and China.
Trump retweeted the almost four year old tweet in response to Clinton’s comment at a fundraiser Friday night saying “half” his supporters fit into a “basket of deplorables”.
The Russian leader has offered kind words for Mr Trump in the past.
She said half of those backing Donald Trump in the November 8 vote belonged in a “basket of deplorables”, of people who were racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic or Islamophobic.
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The Clinton campaign’s statement also slammed Trump for not getting as many military endorsements as Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for president in 2012.
