The Dallas Morning News broke with tradition to formally endorse Hillary Clinton’s White House run Wednesday, marking the first time in more than 75 years the newspaper has backed a Democratic presidential candidate.
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“I’m going to make our military so big, so powerful, so strong, that nobody – absolutely nobody – is gonna to mess with us”, Trump said in a 23-second video posted on his campaign website ahead of a speech at the Union League of Philadelphia. “We will invest heavily in offensive cyber capabilities to disrupt our enemies, including terrorists who rely heavily on internet communications”.
A Public Policy Polling survey found 44 percent of likely Florida voters said they would back Trump; while 43 percent would support Clinton. US cyber operations will “recruit the best and brightest Americans”, he added.
Trump will also call on his generals to draw up a plan to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria within his first month in office.
Whether you like Donald Trump because of his performance on The Apprentice or you like Hillary Clinton because of her tenor, you need to care and understand their respective agendas.
A recent Federal Bureau of Investigation report said one email account on the Clinton server was hacked in 2013.
“Let me just tell you about choking”, Trump fumed to ABC. He didn’t talk about how he would pay for that expansion.
While Trump covered every aspect of US national security, from plans to defeat ISIS to cyber-warfare, he focused heavily on defense spending and sequestration.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are focusing on the military, veterans and foreign policy this week. He says he doesn’t care if other countries get them.
The endorsement Wednesday said there “is only one serious candidate on the presidential ballot in November”. It will offer a prelude of what to expect from them when national security issues come up in their three presidential debates.
There’s also Lt. Gen. Thomas G. McInerney who once submitted court documents accusing President Obama of being born outside the United States, challenging his eligibility to serve as president. “His temperament is solid”, Flynn said of Trump, arguing that Clinton is in fact the candidate whose temperamental fitness should be questioned.
Trump expressed support for the sequester in interviews in 2013 – even describing them as too small – but seemed to suggest at the time that military spending should be exempt.
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Buoyed by polls showing him regaining some ground on Clinton, Trump portrayed himself in an address in Philadelphia as a defender of traditional Republican values on national security but with a distinct unwillingness to launch new wars in the Middle East.
