“We’ve had problems of cyber-intrusions from Russian Federation and other countries in the past”, Obama said, “and we’re moving into a new era here where a number of countries have significant capacities”.
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Trump called it “a sign of such disrespect”. “The fact is, look, it’s not going to get him anywhere”, Trump said, then listing some of his campaign priorities.
He added: “There is this process that seems to take place over the course of an election season where somehow behavior that in normal times we would consider completely unacceptable and outrageous becomes normalized. When you speak, it should actually reflect thought-out policy you can implement”. Putin has offered kind words for Trump in the past as well.
You know, flattery can be used as a tool that sometimes bears very negative fruit.
Xinhua’s “full text” of the Chinese outcome of the meetings between the two leaders specifies peace-keeping in conflicted areas like Afghanistan, Syria, South Sudan, and Iraq, but the South China Sea is not included.
Obama and his Russian counterpart Putin met Monday as talks between their governments on ending violence in Syria ended without an agreement. “If someone says that they want to work with Russian Federation, we’ll welcome it”, Mr Putin told Bloomberg. “And on a state level, Russian Federation has never done this”.
After years of bad blood between Putin and Obama over the crisis in Ukraine and Moscow’s support for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, some Russians insist the Kremlin can handle whoever is the next USA president. “And Obama is coming down a metal staircase”, Trump said in Ohio.
“If you talk to younger people, the next generation of Americans, they completely reject the kinds of positions that he’s taking”, he insisted.
Trump is running against Obama’s endorsed candidate, Hillary Clinton of the Democratic Party.
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham did not hold back Thursday in his evisceration of Donald Trump, the GOP presidential nominee who the night before said he admired Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The president said expressed concerns about cybersecurity issues with Putin, but would not detail the discussions.
She added: “It suggests that he will let Putin do whatever Putin wants to do”.
“Putin is violating the sovereignty of neighbouring countries”, Mr Ryan told reporters, when asked about Mr Trump’s comments on Mr Putin at the forum.
“If he says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him”.
“The man has very strong control over his country”.
“No”, he told host Larry King late Thursday during an interview on RT America’s “Politicking”.
“He supported it before it happened, he supported it as it was happening, and he is on the record as supporting it after it happened”, Clinton said. He coupled that with proposals to increase mental health access in communities, noting that in many instances, “we’ve made police and sheriffs… sadly, the front line for mental health in the country”.
Trump starts off by claiming that media bias was his biggest shock in the race thus far, prompting a dry retort from King: “And that surprised you?”
Trump favors giving veterans access to private care.
Gabriel Debenedetti writes on the Politico website that neither candidate did much to advance their cause, with Hillary Clinton spending “a third of the time fending off questions about her emails” while “Donald Trump struggled to explain his secret plan to defeat the Islamic State”.
An August poll by the independent Levada Centre said 39 percent of Russians who follow the United States election campaign would vote for Trump while only 15 percent would choose Clinton.
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On Sunday, after an anticipated news conference did not take place, Kerry told reporters that his negotiations here with Lavrov snagged on “a couple of tough issues” – almost identical to the language he used when the two failed to reach agreement in their last meeting, just over a week ago in Geneva.
