Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, seized on Trump’s assertion in a televised forum Wednesday that Putin’s incursions into neighboring countries, crackdown on Russia’s independent press, and support for America’s enemies were no less troublesome than Obama’s transgressions.
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Trump said that comment was “long before” the war started, even though it came in the heat of the debate on the Iraq War as Congress prepared to vote on the issue.
Fifty-three percent of voters who are now serving or have previously served in the USA military said they would be confident in Trump’s ability to serve as an effective commander-in-chief of the US military, while 47 percent of these voters said No, the NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll has found.
However, it is still short of Dollars 140 million raised by his rival Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the same month.
Lauer taking a softer tone with Trump should have been expected.
“Clinton announced today she will be meeting with a bipartisan group of high-profile security experts in NY tomorrow, including David Petraeus, Michael Chertoff, and Janet Napolitano”, Cordes stated at the end of her report, seemingly impressed by Clinton’s schedule.
Speaking to reporters in New York Thursday morning, Clinton repeated that Trump “is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander in chief”.
Hillary Clinton: “Every Republican holding or seeking office in this country should be asked if they agree with Donald Trump about these statements”.
CORDES: President Obama, traveling in Laos, said it shows Trump is unqualified.
Our schools have done a poor job of educating students about the U.S. Constitution, American history and our civic institutions. Trump is among those 8% having said that Putin is a better leader than Obama. What does Trump think would happen to him if he was living in Russian Federation and opposing Putin? “That’s what’s scary.” Trump said Wednesday night, as he has many times before, that he does not want to share the details of his strategy because he does not “want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is”. Earlier in the forum she even made a classic Clintonian dodge, saying that “none of the emails sent or received by me had such a header”.
And both parties fiercely criticized the role of the media in an election that is testing time-worn theories on how to cover presidential campaigns, aiming much of their fire at the performance of NBC’s Matt Lauer in moderating a foreign policy forum this week.
Donald Trump did not share any specific details from his classified intel briefings, but he did draw conclusions based on body language.
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The poll’s assistant director, Peter A. Brown, said: “The obvious takeaway from these numbers is that Donald Trump has staged a comeback from his post-Democratic convention lows”. Intel analysts are professionals trained to be non-partisan and just present the information in such situations. But she defended her support for USA military intervention to help oust a dictator in Libya, despite the chaotic aftermath.
