Delivering a speech on education in Cleveland, the billionaire businessman on Thursday accused the media of misrepresenting his position.
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But in a 2006 interview, Trump told the New York Times that Clinton should get a pass on the vote-much as he has since given his vice presidential nominee, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence a pass for the same decision.
“I think under the leadership of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton the generals have been reduced to rubble”.
In Cleveland, Trump cited a January 28, 2003, interview he did with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto to say he was skeptical.
“By not adjudicating, the moderator leaves the viewing public with a “he said, she said” situation when the journalist picked to be onstage could say, decisively, who is right”, wrote Michael Calderone of The Huffington Post.
Trump cited a 2004 Esquire article in which he questioned the Bush administration’s handling of the war.
The long list of Trump comments on Iraq seemingly begins on September 11, 2002, just weeks before the invasion vote, when Trump was asked by radio host Howard Stern whether he supported going into Iraq. Trump responded, “Yeah, I guess so”. “I wish the first time it was done correctly”.
“Here’s the bottom line: I was private citizen”, Trump argued. And while that was enough for Hillary Clinton to criticize him on today, she once shared a detail similar to that in one of her classified briefings.
The survey says that the extra two candidates – libertarian Gary Johnson and far-left Green Party candidate Jill Stein – now benefit Clinton.
Kyle Kopko, a political science professor at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, said party identification and affiliation is the chief driver for Trump’s popularity among current and retired military.
Later that year Trump called the toppling of Saddam Hussein “a huge day for this country”.
However Trump’s obfuscation of his Iraq War support could cut into that trait, potentially hurting his level of support. All those Iraqi kids who’ve been blown to pieces.
Donald Trump, who said he’s got a secret plan to defeat ISIL, now said he would ask USA military generals for a plan, 30 days after taking office.
Lauer’s role at the Wednesday night forum was to both moderate and conduct back-to-back live interviews with the two candidates about issues important to the American public. “He said he wasn’t ― you can go back and look at the record”. Learning from Lauer’s poor example, they’ll be specific rather than general and they’ll repeat the question if Trump doesn’t answer. However, in September 2002, Trump phoned into Howard Stern’s radio show to discuss the one-year anniversary of the terror attacks on NY and got a chance to express his views on the idea of launching a war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
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“I opposed going in and I did oppose it”.
