He said the generals had been “reduced to rubble” during President Barack Obama’s administration. But Trump was unapologetic on Wednesday night, saying he was happy to take a compliment from Putin.
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“I mean, you can say, oh, isn’t that a awful thing – the man has very strong control over a country”, Trump said.
The controversy over Mr. Putin has given Mrs. Clinton an opportunity to highlight her foreign policy expertise as a former secretary of state and US senator while also bashing Mr. Trump.
He said Mr Putin had “great control over his country”. “Far more than our president has been a leader”, he said.
Enflaming the matter, Trump critized America’s intervention with Iraq to a Russian audience during the King interview.
It’s a matter of opinion which would be more embarrassing for a campaign: not realizing that the show you are appearing on is regularly rebroadcasted by a Kremlin propaganda outlet, or not caring. “Vladimir Putin is violating the sovereignty of neighboring countries”, Ryan said at his weekly news conference. He says he wasn’t.
Clinton said USA policies under her leadership at the State Department had helped promote security.
Trump also drew fire for criticising the military. The current average of polls from website RealClearPolitics puts her at 45.6 per cent support, compared with Trump’s 42.8 per cent. “There are many people that think that’s absolutely correct”.
The segment, aired on Thursday evening, showed Mr Trump criticising U.S. policy, particularly the decisions first to invade Iraq and then, under Barack Obama, to get out of the conflict, in his eyes too hastily.
“He said one nice thing about me. And he said he was doing it for his podcast, didn’t know it would be on Russian TV”, Conway said.
Clinton was playing on her home turf.
She was meeting in NY with a group of former national security officials, including Michael Chertoff, homeland security secretary under President George W. Bush, Michael Morell, who was Mr.
Given that, the forum was a chance to showcase her vast depth of knowledge and extensive experience.
But she faced tough questions, not only from moderator Matt Lauer, but from a former Naval officer who held top security clearance.
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”.
The Washington Post reported that “there is strong evidence that Trump’s businesses have received significant funding from Russian investors” and his son, Donald Jr., has boasted that Russian money “make [s] up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets”.
Note this part: “I mean, you can say, oh, isn’t that a bad thing – the man has very strong control over a country”.
Republicans saw the quote, extracted from its context, as a useful soundbite and immediately seized on it.
It is easy to dismiss Putin’s popularity as the sort of artificial metric we’re used to from, say, North Korea. While that’s true for the intervention itself, it elides the fact that four Americans were killed later at the diplomatic compound in Benghazi. Clinton’s claim proved Mostly False. Have we finally reached the point when a woman is allowed to speak forcefully on her own behalf? “We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again”. Trump then attacked Obama and Clinton, the president’s first secretary of state, for their roles in the US troop withdrawal from Iraq. Trump’s tax returns might shed light on the extent of the investment, but he says he won’t release them.
Critics of the network, which mostly targets audiences outside of Russian Federation and also includes programming in Spanish, Hindi and Arabic, have described it as a propaganda arm of Putin’s government.
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All of this despite Trump’s repeated attempts to paint the country under Obama as a hellscape overrun by “illegals”.
