Donald Trump has said throughout the presidential campaign that he never supported the Iraq War.<\/p>\n
But at the NBC Commander-in-Chief Forum Wednesday night, Hillary Clinton told the crowd and viewers to look up a 2002 interview between Donald Trump and Howard Stern when the Republican nominee said he supported the invasion.<\/p>\n
Later at the forum, Trump said that was not true and reminded viewers of other interviews where he said he opposed the war.<\/p>\n
So did Trump support the war or not?<\/p>\n
In the radio interview on Sept. 11, 2002, Stern asked Trump, \u201cAre you for invading Iraq?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, I guess so,\u201d Trump responded.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish the first time it was done correctly,\u201d he added, referring to the Gulf War.<\/p>\n
Trump acknowledged that interview at a town hall on CNN in February, saying he \u201ccould have said that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was probably the first time anybody asked me that question,\u201d he said. \u201cBy the time the war started, I was against the war.\u201d<\/p>\n
In an interview with Fox News\u2019 Neil Cavuto on March 21, 2003, just a day after the start of the invasion, Trump sounded optimistic about how the actions of the military would impact the stock market.<\/p>\n
While he didn\u2019t say specifically if he supported the invasion, he said, \u201cI think Wall Street\u2019s waiting to see what happens, but even before the fact they\u2019re obviously taking it a little bit for granted that it looks like a tremendous success from a military standpoint and I think this is really nothing compared to what you\u2019re going to see after the war is over.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that he thought Wall Street would \u201cgo up like a rocket.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a strong and powerful country and let\u2019s hope it all works out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
A few days later on March 25, 2003, the Washington Post published an article quoting Trump calling the war \u201ca mess.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they keep fighting it the way they did today, they\u2019re going to have a real problem,\u201d he said<\/p>\n
It had been reported on March 23, 2003, that a U.S. missile hit a British jet. Shortly after, the Dow Jones droppedafter an initial increase after the invasion.<\/p>\n
According to factcheck.org, in an interview on Sept. 11, 2003, Trump said, \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a mistake to fight terrorism and fight it hard, and I guess maybe if I had to do it, I would have fought terrorism but not necessarily Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n
In April 2004, in another interview with Stern, Trump said he thinks \u201cIraq is a terrible mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd to think that when we leave, it\u2019s gonna be this nice Democratic country. I mean, gimme a break,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Since then, Trump seems to have stuck with his opposition of the war, but it\u2019s not entirely true that he opposed it before the invasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Donald Trump has said throughout the presidential campaign that he never supported the Iraq War. But at the NBC Commander-in-Chief Forum Wednesday night, Hillary Clinton told the crowd and viewers to look up a 2002 interview between Donald Trump and Howard Stern when the Republican nominee said he supported the invasion. Later at the forum, Trump said that was not true and reminded viewers of other interviews where he said he opposed the war. So did Trump support the war or not? In the radio interview on Sept. 11, 2002,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/2429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}