Hillary Clinton blasted Donald Trump on Thursday for asserting that Russian President Vladimir Putin was a better leader than President Obama, saying Mr. Trump’s praise for the authoritarian leader of an adversarial power “is not just unpatriotic and insulting to the people of our country, as well as to our commander-in-chief, it is scary”.
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“Now that you’ve heard about Hillary Clinton’s plan, about which she has not answered a single question, let me tell you about my plan”, Trump said.
After zealously greeting Trump’s arrival on stage with raucous chants, shrieks and cries, the supporters cheered as he accused Clinton of being a corrupt criminal who could shoot someone with impunity.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets an audience member in Charlotte.
She started on Thursday night with an address to the National Baptist Convention, made up primarily of African-Americans, that focussed on her own religious life. Polls have suggested Hillary Clinton has a sizable lead over Donald Trump in Virginia. I make no excuses for it. Clinton said. “I’m not sure anything surprises us any more”. Trump boasted during the NBC forum that the Russian leader has a purported 82 percent approval rating back home.
“National security experts on both sides of the aisle are chilled by what they’re hearing from the Republican nominee”.
Trump’s charge is that Clinton, a former USA secretary of state and former US senator, has profited from a “rigged” political system.
Trump further stated that cooperation with Russian Federation would help defeat the Islamic State in Syria.
U.S. Generals reduced to rubble.
Trump also injected drama into the national security debate this week by wholeheartedly endorsing Russian President Vladimir Putin as a strong leader who has fared better than US President Barack Obama.
“I can’t say anything surprises us anymore”, she said, characterizing her reaction as “disappointed”.
“If I’m Paul Ryan I would be positioning myself to assert this power that Congress legitimately has”, King added. We are living in a volatile political environment.
With just two months until Election Day, national security has emerged as a centerpiece issue in the White House race.
At an NBC forum on Wednesday night, Clinton pointed to a September 2002 interview Trump gave to radio host Howard Stern to say that Trump had supported the war.
The other half of his backers, according to the Democratic candidate, are voters struggling to trust the government who have found a glimmer of hope in Trump.
Some of those Republicans will join Clinton Friday for what she dubbed a “working session” on the threat of terrorism.
Numerous participants at Friday’s meeting – including former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, former CIA Director David Petraeus and former director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matt Olsen – served with Clinton in the Obama administration. He was asked Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” what he would do as president about Aleppo, the Syrian city at the center of the refugee crisis, Johnson replied, “And what is Aleppo?”
The FBI recommended against any charges after concluding a lengthy investigation of Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state and the Justice Department heeded that recommendation. China, isolated North Korea’s biggest trading partner, has not yet fully dealt with the threat North Korea poses to stability in the region, but the latest nuclear test provides an opening to use USA leverage to prod the government in Beijing to act, she said. The Today Show host, perhaps realizing that he had some lefty credibility to regain, appeared to try to overcompensate with Trump. “We are commanded”, she said. “Maybe he did it with a smile and I guess the RNC would have liked that”.
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MATT LAUER: Right, but you said they’re going to cheat. Nor did Lauer follow up and ask Clinton how she squares “I did exactly what I should have done” with her earlier admission that “it was a mistake to have a personal account”.
