In an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, Trump said Putin was “not going into Ukraine”.
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The Republican presidential nominee also alleged the Russians entered Ukraine under Obama’s watch.
Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson said Wednesday that Trump should apologize for disparaging the bereaved parents in an interview with WTMJ Radio, but Johnson refused to withdraw his support of the NY businessman. “This isn’t a situation where you have an episodic gaffe”.
Thirty-one percent of Trump supporters and 47 percent of Clinton supporters say they don’t have a single friend who supports the other candidate.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Even if that means conditioning our commitments to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, as you said? “I said so last week and he keeps on proving it”, Obama said yesterday. John McCain’s reelection bids.
“I got to know him very well because we were both on ’60 Minutes, ‘ we were stablemates, and we did very well that night”, Trump said in November 2015 speaking about an episode that featured both men. “But that’s not the situation here”.
Obama took an unusual line in focusing on Trump’s temperament and “basic knowledge on critical issues”.
Dr Halper-Hayes, vice-president of Republicans Overseas Worldwide, told the BBC’s Today programme that she was “very concerned” about Trump’s behaviour, although she would not go so far as to endorse Clinton.
Obama is trying to decouple Trump from the GOP.
At a rally in Virginia, Trump announced that a veteran had given him his Purple Heart medal. But last week, Trump sharply reversed himself, telling reporters, “I don’t know anything about him”. “The only thing he said, Wolf, is basically, ‘This man knows nothing about me”.
Regardless of whether or not he truly made a mistake and did not know Russian Federation had already invaded Crimea, what is certain is that Trump is definitely embracing a connection with Putin.
“But that requires us to really be able to pin down and know what we’re talking about”, Obama said, adding he did not want to get ahead of any of the legal evidence and facts. “This was much easier”.
“Do you want to have World War III to get it back?” he asked the crowd at a rally in Columbus, Ohio, arguing it’s not worth confronting Russian Federation to keep them from stomping on other sovereign nations.
NBC News reporter Katy Tur tweeted that Dorfman told her the medal he gave Trump was actually a copy of the one he was awarded for being wounded fighting in Iraq in 2007.
DONALD TRUMP: We will be looking at that, yes. It now sounds as if the bone spurs are in his head. At this rate, Trump might not make it to Election Day.
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Regarding Trump’s remarks about Khizr and Ghazala Khan Saturday, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Pierson, “Has Mr. Trump called the Khan family and apologized?”
