![]() ![]() Trump has repeatedly said he would like to see the U.S. “You’re not fighting Syria any more, you’re fighting Syria, Russia and Iran, all right? Russia is a nuclear country,” he added. ![]() “You’re going to end up in World War III over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton.” We should not be focusing on Syria,” Trump told Reuters. jets if they tried to cordon off parts of Syrian territory into a no-fly zone. officials believe that Russia could shoot down U.S. Russian President Vladimir Putin has dispatched his military to Syria to defend the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad from rebel forces, and many U.S. And an August Morning Consult poll found voters trust Clinton over Trump to handle nuclear arms, 46-31.īut Trump has recently landed on a counter-argument, saying that Clinton’s talk of establishing a no-fly zone in Syria risks a military confrontation with Moscow that could escalate out of control. In what the group calls a “controlled study,” men over the age of 30 who watched the video were 7 percentage points more likely to back Clinton over Trump compared with those who did not watch the ad. The pro-Clinton liberal group says that an online ad it created featuring seemingly glib comments Trump has made about nuclear weapons had an unusual impact. There is evidence that the nuclear issue is doing damage to Trump. In her July Democratic National Convention address, Clinton herself declared, “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.” Trump’s fitness to oversee the nation’s nuclear arsenal is a frequent line of attack from Clinton supporters. That’s more than all the men, women and children living in Columbus, Ohio,” the ad explains, before cutting to Donald Trump asking an interviewer, who tells him that Americans oppose the use of nuclear weapons, “Then why are we making them?” “One nuclear bomb can kill a million people. Bill Bradley is also running an ad in Ohio which depicts a mushroom cloud and the ruins of Hiroshima. It should scare everyone,” says the former officer, Bruce Blair, now a nuclear expert and disarmament activist at Princeton University.Ī pro-Clinton Super PAC backed by former Democratic Sen. “The thought of Donald Trump with nuclear weapons scares me to death. One recent Clinton campaign ad features grave testimony from a former nuclear missile launch officer who speaks while seated near what appear to be the launch controls of an actual ICBM silo. As part of their closing argument, the Clinton campaign and its allies have hammered Trump as too volatile to entrust with nuclear launch codes. ![]()
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