“It just seems to me that what they said, President Obama and Hillary Clinton and John Kerry – who is another total disaster – did exactly the opposite”, he said, mentioning the current secretary of state.
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“That is not acting in our interests and that is an adversarial stance”, he said. Obama expressed confidence the American people won’t elect Trump this November after simply listening to the Republican nominee and evaluating his “track record or lack thereof”.
“I like his ideas, Trump is a cool guy”, said Vadim Lativ, an 18-year-old studying engineering in Moscow. “That is not my job”.
The moment that Donald Trump’s name was mentioned at his weekly press conference, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan threw a fit and refused to answer a question about the GOP nominee’s new praise for Putin.
Clinton tells Channel 2 TV that the Republican presidential candidate’s critical comments about Muslims have played into the hands of the extremist group.
Quizzed by NBC host Matt Lauer on his previous complimentary remarks about Mr Putin, Mr Trump responded: “He does have an 82% approval rating”. “And his political point was actually imputed to them, not even something they allegedly said”.
The full interview is set to be broadcast later Thursday.
Donald Trump’s advisers repeatedly interrupted intelligence officials providing a briefing to the Republican nominee on August 17, until New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie intervened, sources told NBC News.
It’s clear, though, that some supporters have taken Trump’s comments to heart.
As he has in the past, Trump insisted that he did not support President Bush’s invasion in 2003, despite evidence to the contrary. Our Margaret Brennan asked the President about that this morning. The New York Times pronounced that the “consensus afterwards was not kind”.
The forum was scheduled ahead of three more traditional debates between the two major-party candidates, the first of which is scheduled for September 26 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.
Both candidates faced criticism over their performances at the event: Trump because he said Vladimir Putin was a better leader than President Obama and Clinton because she claimed that the U.S.
The televised “Commander-in-Chief” forum on Wednesday, attended by military veterans, was the first time Trump and Clinton had squared off on the same stage since accepting their parties’ White House nominations in July, although they did not appear at the same time. He also had new praise for Putin. He said recent intelligence briefings he has received have convinced him that Clinton and other Obama administration officials did not heed the advice of experts.
“Hillary Clinton is always complaining about what’s wrong”, he said during a campaign stop in Cleveland, where he visited a charter school and proposed federal spending on “school choice” programs.
“He could be right, he could be wrong, none of us were there”, he said.
Conservatives have a deep and completely principled belief, stemming entirely from abstract constitutional premises and not at all from partisanship or substantive opposition to his policies, that Barack Obama has governed like a dictator.
“Getting al-Baghdadi will require efforts at the top levels, but it will send a resounding message that nobody directs or inspires attacks against the United States and gets away with it”, she said. And the Wisconsin Republican says when you do that prematurely, you’re likely to lose anyway.
As Bash questioned how that word could describe a man with his name on so many buildings, Pence said Trump reveals his “humility” in private. He said Putin “has done so in many ways, in a very ruthless manner”.
The Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Corker, offered Trump a warning when asked about the relationship on Thursday.
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson now knows what Aleppo is.
Replied questioner Mike Barnicle, “You’re kidding me”.
The former governor of New Mexico added that Syria is “a mess” and “the only way we deal with Syria is to join hands with Russian Federation to diplomatically bring that (to) an end”.
The forum, which was held on board the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, did not see Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton go head to head.
Mr Trump’s comments follow a pledge that he would get his generals to provide a plan to defeat Islamic State within 30 days.
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“What I did learn is that our leadership, Barack Obama, did not follow. what our experts said to do…”
