The bulk of the attacks, however, centered on Lauer’s failure to challenge Trump on the Republican’s assertion that he opposed the war in Iraq from its beginning, despite evidence of him supporting the war in a 2002 interview.
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Thank you for reading and relying on TulsaWorld.com for your news and information. When a military veteran made a comment about the 20 service members a day who commit suicide due to post traumatic stress disorder, Trump callously responded that the number was actually 22 a day – a retort that is not only incorrect but reeks of dismissiveness to the questioner.
Clinton, meanwhile, demonstrated her fluency on foreign policy at Wednesday night’s forum, but still found herself defending her record.
Lauer, trying to find humour in his situation, made a knowing reference during an interview with comic Dana Carvey on Thursday.
Why? Because Trump accepts the compliments of Vladimir Putin and refuses to call the Russian ruler a “thug”, which is now apparently the mark of a statesman.
In a sit-down with CNN’s Dana Bash at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the GOP vice presidential nominee said Donald Trump was speaking “boldly” as did the 40th president of the United States. Some news organizations have speculated that time was an issue considering Lauer only had one week to prepare for the forum, but the entire event seemed like the host was just rattling off questions and he didn’t care about the answers.
Holt, anchor of NBC Nightly News, will moderate the first presidential debate in Hempstead, N.Y., September 26, and Martha Raddatz of ABC News and CNN’s Anderson Cooper moderate a town hall debate in St. Louis Oct. 9.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, once a presidential candidate himself, said Trump’s efforts will fail because Republicans are “basically anti-city” on issues like gun rights and public employment.
Others consider that a dereliction of duty.
“It will be on the top of my list in dealing with China on how we’re going to prevent what could very well be a serious conflict with North Korea”, she said.
Experts point out the difficulties of doing that in real time, particularly in a hyper-partisan atmosphere.
And perceptions of Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state, which came up frequently in Wednesday night’s forum, has shifted over the past year and a half from an issue that voters deemed mostly irrelevant to her character or ability to serve as president to one which nearly two-thirds judge as an indicator of her fitness for the job.
The interview, set to air Thursday night on Israeli Channel 2 TV, comes as both candidates worked to tout their national security credentials just two months ahead of the election.
“I would never comment on any aspect of an intelligence briefing I received”, Clinton, a former secretary of state, said before boarding her campaign plane.
‘I have no sympathy for them.
“Trump is getting just 25 percent from minority voters, while Clinton gets just 26 percent of white men”, said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
“Yeah, I guess so”, Trump said. “Most moderators, in the stress of the situation, don’t have the capacity”.
“During the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed to have been against the Iraq War from the beginning, and he has cited this story as proof”.
There you have it, folks, the distilled essence of Trump’s disgraceful campaign. Through July, Kessler had investigated the truth of 52 claims by Trump and awarded “four Pinocchios” to 33 of them, meaning they were “whoppers”.
King then asked if he’d like Johnson or Green Party candidate Jill Stein to be invited to the presidential debates.
So much is a judgment call in the moment.
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Mr. Trump is already cutting into Mrs. Clinton’s lead.
