Clinton said those comments and others showed Trump is ill-equipped to be president. “I will do everything in my power to make sure our men and women in the military are fully prepared for any challenge they may have to face on our behalf, but I will also be as careful as I can in making the most significant decisions any president and commander and chief can make about sending our men and women into harms way”.
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The five questions ranged from polls to process to policy specifics, but none seemed to faze Clinton.
Trump provided no detail about what he would have done different to discourage North Korea in the past, or to curb their nuclear ambitions in the future. “Because the greatest threat of all would be terrorists getting their hands on loose nuclear material”, she said.
The problem for Trump, though, won’t be truth-squading so much as the kinds of questions the debate moderators will likely ask him.
Trump took the stage Friday before a fiery crowd of supporters who had just heard a blistering and vitriolic critique of Clinton’s email use from Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and federal prosecutor who loudly argued that Clinton had committed “crimes” and should have been prosecuted.
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“Let me be clear, last night was yet another test, and Donald Trump failed yet again“. “So I’ll just leave it at that”. That’s because, thanks to his terrible performance, the four news anchors who will be moderating those three Trump-Clinton debates-NBC’s Lester Holt, ABC’s Martha Raddatz, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, and Fox News’s Chris Wallace-will nearly certainly not repeat Lauer’s mistakes.
For several moments Clinton stood still, shaking her head – then returned to the podium.
“There were no discussions about any of the covert actions in process being determined about whether or not to go forward”, she said.
King also asked Trump about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assertion that the hack was a “public service”, even as he claimed the Russian government was not involved. “If (Putin) says great things about me, I’m gonna say great things about him”. “I find it frustrating, but it’s part of the landscape we live in”.
Donald Trump is within $50 million of Clinton’s current campaign total, despite delaying his fundraising efforts until the general election, and is now utilizing the Republican National Committee to wrangle in longtime donors.
“Unlike my opponent, my foreign policy will emphasise diplomacy, not destruction”. He’s called the military a wreck, insulted a war hero and demeaned a Gold Star family.
And so, in a press conference that lasted less than 20 minutes, Clinton achieved exactly what she set out to do: End the criticisms that she had gone the entire year without a press conference, and move the narrative beyond Thursday night’s forum. She pointed to a recent article by former National Counter-Terrorism Center director Matthew Olsen to back up her point.
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Like most U.S. mainstream media outlets, the Post instead concentrated on the fact that the interview was with Russia Today, “a state-owned Russian television network”.
