But interviews Trump gave before and after the war prove that he was publicly supportive of the usa invasion of Iraq.
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Clinton’s remarks also prompted an enraged rebuke from the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign.
“Her tenure has brought us only war and destruction and death”, Trump said.
“They have said that they hope that he is the president because it would give even more motivation to every jihadi”, she said. “That is his style and he is very good at counter-punching”, West said.
“It’s really quite wonderful that after the Trump adventure this is still a competitive race”, said Scott Reed, chief strategist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a longtime Republican operative who managed Bob Dole’s 1996 presidential campaign.
Clinton does not speak frequently about her faith, although she discussed its importance to her in a televised town hall event in February during her battle with US Senator Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination. “It’s the reason we were watching, and now because Matt Lauer spent so much time on his questions about emails, the actual questions from the actual veterans about the actual Commander-in-Chiefing gets reduced to a speed date”.
“We have never been threatened by a single candidate running for president as we have been in this election”, she said at a news conference Thursday, arguing that Trump was treating the campaign as his own “celebrity reality TV program”.
But a win for Mrs. Clinton in North Carolina, which backed Mr. Obama in 2008 but Mr. Romney in 2012, could deepen the hole from which Mr. Trump must start his climb.
Clinton added that while she wasn’t surprised by Trump’s remarks, she was “certainly disappointed that someone running for president of the USA would continue this unseemly identification with and praise of the Russian president, including on Russian television”.
“If they keep fighting in the way they did today, they’re going to have a real problem”, Trump said then.
Mr Trump said he felt he could get along with Mr Putin, and was glad to have received a compliment from him.
House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan – the top elected Republican official who has frequently broken with Trump – again took a sharply different view from that of his party’s candidate.
Hillary Clinton was in New York Friday, meeting a group of national security experts. “She is totally confused”. Clinton polls strongly among black voters.
On Tuesday, 88 retired generals and admirals endorsed Trump.
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Trump and Clinton’s intensifying political combat over national security came as Clinton’s lead in opinion polls has slipped in recent days.
