Trump wants more military tools, troops and a plan to defeat ISIS
Noah also criticized Lauer for not pushing back on Clinton and especially Trump, who Noah said got “away with making up lies”, including about how the GOP nominee was against the war in Iraq from the beginning (Trump said he was against the war in an Esquire article published more than a year after the war had started).
Trump also called for “a court system within the military”, seemingly unaware that the military has always been governed by a court system separate from civilians.
“I’m going to make our military so big, so powerful, so strong, that nobody – absolutely nobody – is gonna to mess with us”, Trump said in a 23-second video posted on his campaign website ahead of a speech at the Union League of Philadelphia.
Hillary Clinton said, “I have taken my responsibility for my decision”.
The FBI found that some emails sent or received by Clinton contained classified information, but Director James Comey did not recommend she face prosecution.
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.
Doing little to tamp down the long-running controversy over whether he and his aides have been too friendly with Russia throughout his campaign, Trump complimented Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he has been more of a “leader” than Obama.
“I have a substantial chance of winning, but if I win I don’t want to broadcast” the plan, Trump said. I have a very substantial chance of winning.
Polls suggest Clinton’s former likely eight-point lead has disappeared, although she is still favoured to win the presidency, for now. He’s zeroed in on her controversial email practices at the State Department, calling her private email server “reckless”. In Trump’s portion of the program, he said his business experience qualifies him to be commander in chief. “Neither Trump nor Hillary convinced me they should be commander in chief”. “We don’t send our fearless men and women around the world to steal oil”. Clinton was visibly agitated over being asked for 13 minutes straight about her handling of e-mail during her time as USA secretary of state.
Clinton brushed off the criticism. Keeping our nation safe and leading our armed forces is the most important responsibility of the presidency.
He said that if he becomes president, he will ask Congress to reverse cuts to defense spending enacted under the 2013 budget sequester and submit a new budget to rebuild the military, which he said isn’t prepared to confront threats to the country.
Trump’s charge, delivered to a packed crowd in swing state North Carolina, marked a pointed escalation of the Republican White House hopeful’s case against his Democratic challenger as both court military families in key Southern battlegrounds.
The United States now spends more than $600 billion a year on the military, more than the next seven countries combined.
“She’s trigger happy and very unstable”, Trump said.