“They know they can count on me to be the kind of commander in chief who will protect our country and our troops, and they know they cannot count on Donald Trump”, Clinton said Tuesday.
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While Trump and his advisers have argued that Clinton did not learn from the mistakes of the Iraq War, which she voted for as a senator, and drove the U.S. into another blunder by arguing in favor of military intervention in Libya, Trump supported both of those military interventions.
The Republican presidential nominee is describing Clinton as “trigger-happy and very unstable”.
“This will require military warfare, but also cyberwarfare, financial warfare and ideological warfare”, Trump said during an address in Philadelphia.
He called for hundreds more new USA ships, planes and submarines, and vowed to train thousands more combat troops as well as developing a “state of the art” missile defense system, starting with modernizing 22 Navy cruisers at a cost of about $220 million apiece.
Republican Donald Trump raised about $90 million in August in his campaign for the November 8 USA presidential election against Democrat Hillary Clinton, Fox News reported on Wednesday.
“These new investments in cyber security and the modernization of our military will spur substantial new job creation in the private sector and help create the jobs and technologies of tomorrow”, Trump said.
Trump also says that, if he wins, he’ll instruct his generals to come up with a plan within 30 days “to defeat and destroy” the Islamic State group.
“This is not about Democrat or Republican”, said retired Air Force General Lloyd “Fig” Newton in a statement.
According to the survey, while just 40 to 39 percent of all voters said they would trust Trump more to handle veterans issues, that margin climbed to 53 to 28 percent among military and veteran voters.
“Sometimes it seemed that there wasn’t a country in the Middle East that Hillary Clinton didn’t want to invade, intervene in, or topple”, Trump said. They defend Clinton’s record as steady and experienced.
If by “anti-intellectualism” Todd means the rejection of the policies that serve none but the globalist elite then yes, Trump’s rise is indicative of “anti-intellectualism”.
Pinning the destabilization of the Middle East and failed regime change in Libya, Syria and Iraq on Clinton, Trump reminded voters about the Federal Bureau of Investigation report dropped last week showing Clinton’s gross negligence in handling classified information.
Trump and Clinton are scheduled to participate in successive town-hall style forums on national security hosted by CNN on Wednesday night. News of the ban’s end was first reported by CNN. Last month, he threatened to expand it to The New York Times.
The New York businessman, who has struggled at times to demonstrate a command of foreign policy, is outlining plans to “add substantially” to the nation’s arsenal of submarines, ships and combat troops.
Trump has edged ahead of Clinton in a new CNN/ORC poll, at 45 percent to 43 percent among likely voters, while an NBC News poll of registered voters shows Clinton’s lead holding at six percentage points-48 percent to 42 percent.
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They will not be on the stage at the same time, but it could serve as a warm-up for their first debate, scheduled for September 26.
