Hillary Clinton says every Republican holding or seeking office should be asked if they agree with Donald Trump’s comments about trusting and firing some US generals and his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Republican candidate again cast doubt on whether Russian Federation was behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee, a belief at odds with USA intelligence officials. You know that better than anybody.
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“Bringing Islam into the definition of our enemy actually serves the objective of the radical jihadists and there’s a lot of evidence of that”, she said, citing a Time magazine op-Ed by Matt Olsen, formerly a director of the National Counterterrorism Center under President Barack Obama. She’s just too quick to intervene, invade, or to push for regime change, ‘ he said at the summit. I said, I don’t know.
“Certainly in that system, he’s been a leader, far more than our president has been”.
When asked about Trump’s remark, King maintained that Putin has been the stronger of the two leaders.
“Trump has an ability to manipulate situations like that to his advantage, which we saw over and over in the primary”, said Sarah Isgur Flores, the former campaign manager for Republican candidate Carly Fiorina. “It is scary”, Clinton said during a press conference.
According to an article from Ken Meyer of the Mediaite.com website posted the following day, the Republican’s appearance was “intriguing to some because it meant that Trump was following his most recent Vladimir Putin sweet-talk by appearing on the Kremlin’s own network”.
Clinton’s interview, set to air Thursday night on Israeli Channel 2 TV, comes as both candidates worked to tout their national security credentials just two months ahead of the election.
Donald Trump’s praise for Vladimir Putin again illustrates the awkward spot Marco Rubio finds himself in with his former presidential primary rival.
Asked if he feels comfortable voting for Trump as commander in chief, Ryan said, “I’ll leave it at that”.
Of Trump’s plan to take on ISIS, Clinton said “he still doesn’t have one”.
Trump seemed to skate by a half hour later as he repeated – unchallenged – the false claim that he was against the war, even though he voiced support for it in a 2002 interview.
“I believe with all my heart that putting a lid on Iran’s nuclear weapons program has made Israel safer; has made the region safer; prevented a nuclear arms race”, Clinton said.
“So, I am not interested in giving aid and comfort to their evil ambitions”, she added, vowing to defeat the extremist group.
Mr Trump had told the forum in NY that the Russian president had “been a leader far more than our president has been”. The presidential election will be held on November 8. While the candidates never appeared on stage together, the session served as a preview of sorts for their highly-anticipated presidential debates. ‘National security experts on both sides of the aisle are chilled by what they’re hearing from the Republican nominee’. He said Putin “has done so in many ways, in a very ruthless manner”.
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Clinton said those comments and others showed Trump is ill-equipped to be president.
