Hillary Clinton Rips Donald Trump for Praise of Vladimir Putin

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticized US foreign policy and the American political press corps Thursday during an interview on RT America, a state-owned Russian television network… He first defended Putin, suggesting that maybe Putin wasn’t responding for the DNC hack, then he said that President Obama had done things just as bad as Putin.

Trump on Wednesday raised eyebrows by saying that Russia’s president was “far more” of a leader than Obama.

Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed over national security again yesterday, with Trump calling his Democratic rival “trigger-happy” and Clinton arguing his proposals would make the world a more unsafe place. “It’s a war we shouldn’t have been in, number one”, Trump said, “and it’s a war that when we got out, we got out the wrong way”.

“Speaking in December, the Russian leader said Trump is a very outstanding person, talented, without any doubt”. “I’d rather it be Hillary and myself, because we’re the only two with a chance of winning”.

The Trump campaign condemned the remarks late Friday night, saying Clinton “ripped off her mask and revealed her true contempt for everyday Americans”. We have a country where you have Hillary Clinton with her emails that nobody’s ever seen where she deletes 33,000 emails, and that’s after getting a subpoena from Congress.

“Vladimir Putin is a thug, a dictator, an autocratic ruler who has his opposition killed in the streets in Russian Federation”, the South Carolina Republican told reporters on Capitol Hill.

Critics? What critics? The head of NBC News says Matt Lauer did a “tremendous job” leading the network’s “Commander-in-Chief Forum” earlier this week.

A forum created to test the leading presidential candidates’ capacity for military leadership Wednesday night displayed as much unpredictability as the rest of this election, as questions and answers veered off-topic and both candidates were put on the defensive several times.

“In the full clip he said, ‘That’s not the system I agree with, but he’s a strong leader there, ‘” Conway said.

It was the first time Trump and Clinton had squared off on the same stage since accepting their parties’ presidential nominations in July for the November 8 election.

“I would never comment on any aspect of an intelligence briefing I received”, said Clinton, a former secretary of state, before boarding her campaign plane.

“I don’t think the guy’s qualified to be president of the United States and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed”, Obama said in unusually caustic language while overseas.

Trump first publicly stated his support for the Iraq War one month before Congress voted to authorize the use of military force in Iraq, when radio host Howard Stern asked him if he favored invading Iraq.