– ‘Not temperamentally fit’ –
When an interviewer noted that Trump had claimed he was being sarcastic, Clinton replied: “If you take the encouragement that Russians hack into email accounts, if you take his quite excessive praise for Putin, his absolute allegiance to a lot of Russian wish-list foreign policy issues,” it suggests that “he is not temperamentally fit to be president and commander-in-chief.”
Trump had earlier unnerved NATO member nations by questioning the long absolute US commitment to defend any member of the Atlantic alliance should it be attacked by Russia.
In an interview, with The New York Times just before the Republican convention, Trump said that if Russia attacked NATO member nations he would decide whether to come to their assistance only if he decided that they had “fulfilled their obligations to us.”
Trump has also said he might withdraw US troops from European and Asian countries if they failed to pay more for American protection.
“We are going to take care of this country first,” he told The Times, “before we worry about everyone else in the world.”
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