‘I think when he calls me brilliant I’ll take the compliment, okay?’ Trump said when pressed about Putin, whose regime is under USA and worldwide sanctions over Russia’s incursion into Ukraine. Could this explain Trump’s bromance with Putin? But he was unapologetic, saying he was happy to take a compliment from Putin, who once called Trump “very outstanding”.
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Putin has been financing right-wing political groups in Europe in an effort to split the European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
What if Trump is Putin’s “Manchurian candidate” to divide and conquer America?
Most national polls show a tight race with Clinton in the lead as the U.S. presidential race enters its home stretch with just nine weeks until the November 8 election.
Donald Trump declared yesterday that Russia’s VladimirPutin had been a better leader than US President Barack Obama, as the Republican presidential nominee used a televised forum to argue he was best equipped to reassert America’s global leadership. “I make no excuses for it”, Clinton responded, stressing she had not improperly handled classified information.
Trump has been criticized frequently for seeming to heap praise on Putin and other strongmen.
He has since picked up ground on Clinton in national opinion polls.
But under repeated questions from host Matt Lauer, Trump stood by his earlier claims that he would “get along” with Putin and forge constructive relations with the nation that has become a top rival to US interests in various trouble spots.
In a breach of protocol, Mr Trump attempted to use the fact he had received two confidential intelligence briefings as the Republican nominee to suggest he had gleaned from them that President Obama and Ms Clinton, when she was Secretary of State, had routinely ignored the advice the intelligence experts had been giving them.
Trump took heat in July when he spoke about encouraging Russian Federation try to uncover Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Trump, who earlier in the day proposed a massive increase in USA military spending, said the military’s leadership “has been reduced to rubble” under the Obama administration.
When asked how he’d be able to change Putin’s stance on key issues, Trump said he thought he could.
“Our leaders were not following what they recommended”. Earlier, Clinton raised her voice at times as Lauer tried to cut off some of her answers.
Clinton said she regretted her decision as a USA senator from NY to vote in favor of the much-criticized 2003 Iraq war and that Trump had been in favour of it as well. This is what Obama does, ‘ Trump said.
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On the USA intervention in Libya in 2011, Clinton rejected Trump’s criticism of her support for the effort as secretary of state.
