“I think one thing you’ll see at the debates is him suggesting that he’ll be a careful commander-in-chief and that it’s Hillary more likely to get us into war”, he said.
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White House rivals Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are bringing out the brass, in hopes some military polish will burnish their own national security credentials.
Investments in cybersecurity and in the military will create new jobs and the “technologies of tomorrow”, Trump said.
Mr Trump made the comments during Wednesday night’s forum on national security at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum aboard a decommissioned aircraft carrier in NY.
Donald Trump will deliver a speech Wednesday evening, at the convention of New York’s Conservative Party.
That position is contradicted by an interview Trump did with Howard Stern in September 2002, in which he was asked whether he supported the invasion and responded, “Yeah, I guess so”. A total of 47 percent said they would “strongly” or “somewhat” consider voting for Clinton, 46 percent for Trump, 21 percent for Johnson, and 12 percent for Stein. “Far more than our president has been a leader”, she said.
Late last week, the FBI published scores of pages summarising interviews with Mrs Clinton and her top aides from the recently closed criminal investigation into her use of a private email server in the basement of her NY home.
Trump did little to counter the criticism that he lacks detailed policy proposals, particularly regarding the Islamic State.
Mr. Trump’s attack on Tuesday on Ms. Clinton and her policy in West Asia as Secretary of State was equally an assault on George W. Bush, the last Republican President who triggered the turmoil in the region with his “regime change” policies. Mr.
Ms Clinton also defended her support for United States military intervention in Libya, despite the chaos that has consumed that country since then.
Trump’s proposal to lift the sequester limits on military spending won praise from Republicans on Capitol Hill even as some acknowledged the reality that Democratic opposition might render it hard to achieve.
Trump said his administration would “make it a priority to develop defensive and offensive cyber capabilities at our US cyber command and recruit the best and brightest Americans”. Donald Trump pointed out that he would grant one single month to the Pentagon, to structure a plan, to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS). “I took it very seriously”, Clinton said.
However, Trump’s advantage among military voters is nothing new, local analysts say, noting the military’s political leanings have swayed to the right in recent decades.
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The press conference also served as a time for Clinton to remind everyone that she is extremely, extremely hawklike on national security and foreign intervention, although she stopped short of saying she supports a ground mission to defeat ISIS. “I will then ask for a plan to immediately protect those vulnerabilities and then fix them“.
