[ September 8, 2016 ] Trump says Putin better than Obama GLOBAL ECONOMY

Mrs Clinton defended her ruling despite her e-mail scandal.

The candidates spoke back-to-back at the forum Wednesday night, each fielding 30 minutes of questions.

At a time when the chief of the Pentagon has accused Russian Federation of breeding global instability, Trump defended Putin by saying: “He does have an 82 percent approval rating”.

“I believe when he calls me excellent I Will take the compliment, okay?” added the businessman.

And like speed dating gone wrong, there was lots of time for the participants to entomb themselves.

On the USA intervention in Libya in 2011, Clinton rejected Trump’s criticism of her support for the effort as secretary of state. To Trump, that simply makes Putin a strong leader, one whose praise the Republican nominee is happy to accept.

“Look, it’s not going to get him anywhere”, Trump told Lauer”.

Around the time Trump got to praising the leadership qualities of the former KGB agent who now runs Russian Federation with an iron fist, one has to imagine Hillary Clinton let herself breathe a sigh of relief.

“If he says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him”, Trump said.

At one point, making a reference to 2012 Benghazi attack, Trump said “She made a awful mistake in Libya”, which was immediately responded by Clinton in words: “We made the world safer” by not allowing a civil war in Libya.

Referring to allegations that the Russians were involved in hacks of the Democratic National Committee and a number of state election authorities, the Wisconsin Republican said, “it certainly appears he’s conducted state-sponsored cyberattacks on what appears to be our political system”, which he said, “is not in our interests”. He insisted that World War Two General George Patton was “spinning in his grave” over the USA military’s failure to quickly defeat Isis.

Trump also angered many in the military community with mocking remarks against US Senator and former prisoner of war John McCain for being captured in Vietnam.

He stood by a comment he made three years ago when he appeared to blame such assaults on the decision to allow women in the forces.

For the most part they refrained, though Clinton said Trump had refused to take responsibility for his initial support for the Iraq War.

A USA naval flight officer told the former secretary of state he would have been jailed if he had handled classified information as she had done. “Always have, always will”.

“Permitting there to be an ongoing civil war in Libya would be as threatening and as risky as what we are seeing in Syria”, she said. She said she took great care to use a separate process for classified information.

He said that in only the game’s second quarter, Clinton started “stalling, not talking to the press, not doing many events”.

The president pointed to discussions with Southeast Asian leaders about maritime disputes in the South China Sea and suggested progress had been made in clarifying the path ahead to lower tensions between China and the Philippines.

Clinton could also be vulnerable to Americans’ worries about terrorism – particularly the Islamic State’s designs on the West – and criticism that President Barack Obama hasn’t done enough to combat extremism emanating from the Middle East.