“I would never comment on any aspect of an intelligence briefing I received”, Clinton, a former secretary of state, said.
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“Last night, Hillary Clinton again failed the commander-in-chief test, where she was unable to answer for her bad foreign policy judgment, mishandling of classified information, and claims that the VA wait time scandal was overblown”, said Miller.
Trump also renewed his praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his disdain for President Barack Obama, saying that the Russian enjoyed an 82 percent approval rating. She also touted the support of numerous Republican national security experts that have chosen to endorse her candidacy, helping bolster her case that Trump is broadly unacceptable.
“Every Republican holding or seeking office in this country should be asked if they agree with Donald Trump about these statements”, Clinton said in a morning news conference before she headed to North Carolina for a campaign event.
I didn’t watch NBC’s “Commander-in-Chief Forum” last night. Lauer allowed Trump to lie, bloviate, and spread fact-free word diarrhea all over the stage, while urging Hillary Clinton to reply “briefly” when a veteran asked how she planned to defeat ISIS.
In that interview, Trump said: “I think the Iraqi situation is a problem”.
The format of the NBC forum, in which the two candidates were separated by only a commercial break, put that contrast into higher relief than ever before. She said that this is why her campaign has been so highly organized in preparing for November.
“These are the desperate attacks of a flailing campaign sinking in the polls, and characteristics of someone woefully unfit for the presidency of the US”, Jason Miller, senior communications adviser for Trump, said. “I said it’s going to totally destabilize the Middle East, which it has”.
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Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump offered up some inaccuracies and half-truths. Taking it a step further, Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, the public policy research group, noted that “many people” were saying Lauer “wouldn’t have interrupted Hillary so much if she were a man”. He said while he believed Clinton would listen to advisers, he was doubtful Trump would hear out their advice. “So is the plan you’ve been hiding this whole time asking someone else for their plan?”, the presidential candidate was asked. “Maybe he did it with a smile and I guess the RNC would have liked that”. “The hashtag “#LaueringTheBar” was trending on Twitter Wednesday night.
