Europe’s media reacted on Thursday to Trump’s warm comments about Putin with a mixture of skepticism, disbelief and nervousness over where the relationship could leave Europe should Trump come to power. At a speech in Cleveland, he tagged his Democratic opponent with a new nickname – “trigger-happy Hillary” and repeated his incorrect claim that he opposed the war in Iraq “from the beginning”. He said Putin “has done so in many ways, in a very ruthless manner”.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., told reporters he did not want to do a daily “tit for tat” on Trump’s remarks, but nevertheless called Putin an “aggressor (who) does not share our interests”. She vowed to defeat the Islamic State group “without committing American ground troops” to Iraq or Syria. He both insisted he has a private blueprint for defeating the extremist group and that he would demand a plan from military leaders within 30 days of taking office.
He also slammed the American military as an “embarrassment” and its generals so weak that they have essentially been “reduced to rubble”. Asked to square his request for military options with that criticism, Trump said simply: “They’ll probably be different generals”.
But, certainly, in that system, he’s been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader.
House Democrats have just released correspondence between Clinton and her predecessor Colin Powell, who said he indicated that he used a similar process, NBC reported.
“I don’t think the guy’s qualified to be president of the United States and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed”, Obama said in unusually caustic language while overseas. He added, “I hope that 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”. Both candidates believe they have the upper hand, with Clinton contrasting her experience with Trump’s unpredictability and the Republican arguing that Americans anxious about their safety will be left with more of the same if they elect Obama’s former secretary of state.
“If (Putin) says great things about me, I’m gonna say great things about him”.
Some of those Republicans will join Clinton Friday for what she dubbed at “working session” on the threat of terrorism. He said he has a “very distinct plan” and knocked foreign policy under Obama, Hillary Clinton, and former president George W. Bush.
JOHN YANG: Foreign policy also figured prominently today for libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, though he may have wished it hadn’t. He was asked Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” what he would do as president about Aleppo, the Syrian city at the center of the refugee crisis, Johnson replied, “And what is Aleppo?”
The interview came a day after Trump repeatedly praised Putin during NBC’s Commander-In-Chief Forum. She reiterated that she had made mistakes in relying on a personal email account and private server as secretary of state and in voting for the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a senator.
Speaking at a televised national security forum, Clinton also defended her support for USA military intervention in Libya, despite the chaos that has consumed that country since then.
Critics argue the military’s justice system has poorly served victims of sexual assault, but it’s not correct to say, as Trump did, that “nobody gets prosecuted”.
Mr Trump would increase the size of the army to about 540,000; “build a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions”; “build a Navy approaching 350 surface ships and submarines”; and “build an Air Force of at least 1,200 fighter aircraft”, his campaign also said.
THE FACTS: That statement is contradicted by an interview Trump did with Howard Stern in September 2002.
“Yeah, I guess so”, Trump responded after a brief hesitation, according to a recording of the interview unearthed by BuzzFeed News.
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He will be “the nation’s biggest cheerleader for school choice”, Trump said, adding that he supports merit pay for teachers “so that we reward great teachers – instead of the failed tenure system that rewards bad teachers and punishes good ones”. “I’m confident he’s going to acquit himself well”. No, Hillary Clinton’s most risky foe is the entire political news media, whose idea of objectivity is, as Chait hints at, is to treat every liability as equal, at best, and to hunt for a liability when one is needed to provide “balance”.
