Clinton’s campaign and some supporters acknowledge that some of her liabilities stem from self-imposed errors, including her difficulty explaining the decision to install a private email server in her NY home.
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“I think that when you serve in the armed forces, that’s a very special situation”, Trump said.
Trump further insinuated on Russia Today that it’s “unlikely” Russia is trying to interfere with the election this year.
But he did say that the military could do more under a Trump administration than it has under an Obama administration when asked why the military would have different ideas under Trump than it does now. In the past Putin has called Trump “bright” and “talented”. The statement drew broad criticism, prompting him to take a more disciplined approach to campaigning.
Clearly, the mainstream media is panicking about Clinton’s drop in the polls. “Some days it’s really hard for me”, she said to laughter.
While senior military service leaders will say they could always use more forces, they say that adding more troops without providing the budget to support them and ensure they are ready to fight would only make things worse.
Clinton’s argument that Trump is ill-prepared to be commander in chief has been bolstered by a flood of Republican national security experts who are backing the Democratic nominee instead of their own party’s pick. He’s zeroed in on her controversial email practices at the State Department, calling her private email server “reckless”. Hillary responded to a question about this by saying, “I think what he said was totally inappropriate and undisciplined”.
The FBI found that some emails sent or received by Clinton contained classified information, but Director James Comey did not recommend she face prosecution.
Appearing in the second half of the hour-long show, Trump faced questions about his fitness for office. The “commander in chief” national security forum, hosted by NBC, will serve as something of a preview for voters of the candidates’ highly anticipated trio of debates later this fall. And Republican opponents have no shortage of examples which they say demonstrate that it’s Clinton who expects deferential treatment. “We need change, and we need it fast”.
Trump’s rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton, has tried to paint the billionaire businessman as erratic, making the case that his disposition would be a major liability on the world stage.
Clinton said she regretted her decision as a United States senator from NY to vote in favor of the much-criticized 2003 Iraq war and that Trump had been in favor of it as well.
In those remarks, and in notes provided by his campaign, Trump pointed to a pair of interviews as evidence to back up his claim he was against the war from the start. Earlier on Wednesday, former Defense Secretary William Cohen joined the list of GOP officials supporting Clinton.
“He’s on record extensively supporting intervention in Libya, when Gadhafi was threatening to massacre his population”, Clinton said September 7, 2016.
Moreover, both Trump and Clinton have chewed their oratory pablum so fully that nothing fazes them. Republicans have made much of the fact that the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, was killed in an Islamist attack in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012.
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She said she couldn’t promise there would be no terror attacks on USA soil if she becomes president, calling preventing terrorism “a huge challenge”. “We have to do a better job of not only collecting and analyzing the intelligence we do have, but distributing it much more quickly down the ladder to state and local law enforcement”, she told Lauer. We’ve gotta help people now serving not to feel that if they report their sense of unease, their depression, that somehow it’s gonna be a mark against them.
