Retired Gen. John Allen says Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has “no credibility” to criticize him about the USA battle against Islamic State militants.
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In her acceptance speech, Clinton reaffirmed a commitment to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, saying she was “proud to stand by our allies in North Atlantic Treaty Organisation against any threat they face, including from Russian Federation”.
“Yes, but that right, like every other of our rights, our First Amendment rights, every right that we have is open to and even subject to reasonable regulation”, she said.
In an interview with ABC News, which aired in full length Sunday morning, This Week host George Stephanopoulos grilled GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump over his relationship with Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Clinton once compared the annexation of Crimea to Adolf Hitler’s moves into Eastern Europe at the start of World War II, a comparison that was deeply offensive in Russian Federation, where the country’s victory over Nazi Germany remains a prime source of national pride.
Stephanopoulos then pointed out that Putin is “already there” and noted Trump had said he’d consider recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea if he were elected president.
Asked by Fox if she believed Mr Putin wanted Mr Trump to become president, Ms Clinton said she was not going to assume that was the case. And frankly, that whole part of the world is a mess under Obama with all the strength that you’re talking about and all of the power of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and all of this.
Foreign policy experts of all stripes “are left slack-jawed” by Trump’s pronouncements, said Derek Chollet, a senior adviser at the German Marshall Fund and former Pentagon official in the Obama administration. “Crimea has been taken”.
CLINTON: Donald Trump says he wants to make America great again.
Seen through Kremlin eyes, Moscow would only be doing what it feels the USA has been doing to it for years anyway – interfering in a geopolitical rival’s domestic politics in an attempt to destabilize and shape events.
Clinton’s campaign and the Democrats have attempted to tie Trump’s praise of Putin to the hack.
Channel One began its report by introducing Clinton as “a politician who puts herself above the law, who is ready to win at any cost and who is ready to change her principles depending on the political situation”.
In his ABC interview, Trump dismissed those Democratic claims. The Rossiya channel also showed anti-Clinton protesters outside the convention hall who it said “felt they have been betrayed after the email leak that showed Bernie Sanders was pushed out of the race”.
Trump, meanwhile, has encouraged Russian Federation to seek and release more than 30,000 other missing emails deleted by Clinton.
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House speaker Paul Ryan quickly released a statement to distance himself from Mr Trump’s comments, and former CIA Director Leon Panetta said Mr Trump’s remarks called into question his loyalty to the US.
