Late last week, FBI published scores of pages summarizing interviews with 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.
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Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton hit key battleground states today, with just a little more than two months to go before the election.
The Washington Post reported that USA authorities were probing a covert Russian operation that included a cyber-attack on voter registration systems in Arizona. Clinton, meanwhile, jokingly dismissed it as her being allergic to Trump.
The question, written with a marker, asked who Clinton would rather have dinner with – Trump or Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“We are going to have to take those threats and attacks seriously”, Clinton told reporters traveling with her from OH to IL.
Clinton had sharp words for Trump, describing him as “dead wrong” for saying that his tax returns were not the concern of everyday Americans, despite every major presidential nominee since Richard Nixon releasing their taxes before the election.
“He has a freakish fascination with strongmen and authoritarian leaders in countries that are no allies of the United States, and with respect our allies, he would toss alliances aside, and says he wants to, quote, ‘Take everything back from the world that we’ve given them, ‘” Kaine said, speaking here at a historic USO building. “We are going to have real plans, not claims and secret plans”, Clinton said earlier on Tuesday. “Now, if you’re going to get into a feud with an ally, how about dealing with an adversary?”
He said Clinton shared his commitment to seek a vote from Congress to authorize USA military action against Islamic State, something that has been a priority for him in the last two years. “You need energy, man”, Trump told reporters.
“It’s a matter of time” before another terror attack, he said. Clinton and Trump will participate in a joint forum Wednesday sponsored by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and broadcast on NBC and MSNBC – their first joint appearance of the campaign. Trump said it was a sign of disrespect and he would have left immediately if he had been president.
Clinton is also bolstering her national security push with a new television ad called “Sacrifice”, highlighting Trump’s criticism of Arizona Sen.
And her super PAC, Priorities USA, is launching a $5 million ad buy in the swing states North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, Nevada, Iowa and New Hampshire on Friday with a spot titled “I Love War”.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine is talking up his own national security credentials as he begins a speech on the topic in Wilmington, North Carolina. “He is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be President of the United States”. He focused on his proposed border wall plan in a Tuesday interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America”.
“I’m talking about general, by the way, she says things about me that are frightful”, Trump said.
Clinton said sometimes these types of logistical dust-ups are “annoying” but they’re not the reason a president attends these types of meetings. ‘I know that that’s what has been alleged and never proven.
“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”, Ms Clinton said en route to Florida.
With Monday’s Labour Day holiday kicking off the final dash to Election Day, Clinton took pains to make herself more than available to reporters traveling with her, after almost nine months without holding a formal press conference.
Clinton chatted casually for a few minutes, telling reporters that she was powering through the allergies that have strained her voice in recent days and even sharing that she had upped her antihistamines.
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“I call on all Republicans to put people before politics and finally vote in favor of a clean funding bill to fight Zika here in Florida”.
