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Trump criticizes U.S. policy on Russian television

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticized U.S. policy in Iraq again, but this time he aired his grievances on an unusual platform: a Russian government-funded television network.


Trump, who has often praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, made the comments in an interview with former CNN broadcaster Larry King, whose podcast was aired on Thursday night on the RT network, a 24-hour news channel that broadcasts in both English and Russian.

Critics of the network, which mostly targets audiences outside of Russia and also includes programing in Spanish, Hindi and Arabic, have described it as a propaganda arm of Putin's government.

Traditionally, American presidential candidates do not bash their country before a foreign audience, even if they are fierce critics of the current administration while campaigning in the United States. Trump has said far worse about President Barack Obama in appearances on U.S. television networks.

The White House said it had no comment on Trump's remarks.
Trump's praise of Putin, which he repeated during a televised national security forum on Wednesday night, has drawn sharp criticism from Democrats and some Republicans.

Trump told King he does not think the Russians were intervening in U.S. elections, a concern expressed by some U.S. officials and by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

The New York businessman also said he did not think Russia's government was behind the hack of Democratic National Committee email servers. Experts inside and outside the government have pointed to Russian-backed actors as the source of the hack, which has been used to leak information in an attempt to embarrass Democrats.

Trump criticized U.S. policy in Iraq from the time of Republican President George W. Bush, who ordered the American-led invasion in 2003 in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, al Qaeda attacks on the United States. Trump then attacked Obama and Clinton, the president's first secretary of state, for their roles in the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq.

"It's a war we shouldn't have been in, number one," Trump said in the interview. "And it's a war that, when we got out, we got out the wrong way. That's Obama."

Clinton's campaign has seized on criticism of Trump for lauding Putin, frequently pointing to the Republican's praise of the Russian president as disqualifying for the White House.

Trump's interview surfaced as he and Clinton continue to clash over foreign policy in the run-up to the Nov. 8 election.

Trump sought on Friday to blame Clinton after reports that North Korea had tested a nuclear weapon [nL3N1BL174], arguing it was the fourth such test since the Democrat became secretary of state in 2009 and that she should have ended the nation's nuclear program before her tenure ended in early 2013.

"Hillary Clinton’s North Korean policy is just one more calamitous diplomatic failure from a failed Secretary of State," Trump spokesman Jason Miller said in a statement.

Clinton called the North Korea test "outrageous and unacceptable," saying she supports imposing additional U.S. and United Nations sanctions.

"This constitutes a direct threat to the United States, and we cannot and will never accept this," Clinton said. "We need a Commander-in-Chief committed to a bipartisan foreign policy, who can bring together top experts with deep experience to solve the toughest challenges."


Clinton was scheduled on Friday to meet with former senior national security officials in New York.

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