Putin is “very much of a leader”, Trump said in a televised interview.
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Trump noted that the advantage of the USA having a good relationship with Russian Federation was that Moscow wanted to destroy Islamic State as badly as the US did. “That is not my job”.
When asked how he expected to defeat IS, Mr Trump was vague, responding he didn’t “want to broadcast to the enemy what my plan is”.
Most UK newpapers carried coverage of Trump’s praise of Putin with the country’s left-leaning Guardian newspaper saying it was continuation of the “so-called bromance” that has blossomed between the men.
Clinton said the most important quality in a president is steadiness and the strength to make hard decisions. “I have no sympathy for them”. “But certainly in that system he’s been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader”.
Mrs Clinton also pointed out that Trump had once supported the invasion. “That is not my job and I’m not going to be the election year pundit”. Obama said they shook hands but that it was a brief interaction, adding that he’d told Duterte their aides should confer on how the two treaty allies can move forward.
Johnson said in a statement that he thought Aleppo was an acronym when asked about it on the television show “Morning Joe” Thursday morning.
Clinton also declared that she would never send additional ground troops to defeat ISIS.
Asked how he would de-escalate tensions between the US and Russian Federation if he’s elected to the White House, Trump said he’d “have a very good relationship with many foreign leaders”, including Putin. “Look at the small number of results”, Trump said.
He said on Wednesday night in NY during a televised forum that he had great respect for the Russians and would have a wonderful relationship with Putin. He also had new praise for Putin.
Clinton reiterated her often-repeated observation that Trump’s temperament is too unstable to be trusted with the nation’s nuclear weapons.
“We made the world safer”, she said.
Trump said there were things in his briefing that “shocked” and “surprised” him.
Clinton said USA policies under her leadership at the State Department had helped promote security.
U.S. President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks during a news conference at the Landmark Mekong Riverside Hotel in Vientiane, Laos, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, after attending the ASEAN Summit.
The Democrat also reiterated that her vote for the Iraq War was a “mistake”. Clinton compared the mission to the 2011 killing of the al-Qaida leader who directed the September 11 attacks that killed almost 3,000.
Correction: An earlier version of this article and the headline incorrectly quoted a remark President Obama made about Donald Trump.
The property magnate recently drew sharp criticism when he urged Russian Federation to dig up the emails that Mrs Clinton deleted from her email server. “I’ll just leave it at that”, he said. And the Wisconsin Republican says when you do that prematurely, you’re likely to lose anyway.
The bombastic mogul will face Hillary Clinton in November’s election, which the Democratic former first lady is tipped to win.
She said she couldn’t promise there would be no terror attacks on United States soil if she becomes president, calling preventing terrorism “a huge challenge”. When he convenes his generals as soon as he takes office, Trump said, he would demand their plan for taking out ISIS to be delivered within 30 days, and then he’d see how well it comports with his plan.
Trump has been criticized frequently for seeming to heap praise on Putin and other strongmen.
Obama also said he believes criticisms about his reception in Asia based on a scuffle over how he exited Air Force One upon his arrival in China are “overblown”. “I even used it to do business with some foreign leaders and some of the senior folks in the Department on their personal email accounts”.
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The Republican presidential nominee made the controversial comments during a TV forum where he appeared with rival Hillary Clinton. Both the leaders were separately grilled over the issues of military credentials and national security.
