Panetta: Trump would be ‘an erratic finger on our nuclear weapons’

Published July 28, 2016 12:59am ET



PHILADELPHIA — Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta accused GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump of asking the Russians to “engage in hacking or intelligence against the United States to affect our election,” and he gave Hillary Clinton the credit for the mission to kill Osama bin Laden.

Panetta, in an address to the Democratic National Convention, said Trump, if elected president, would provide unstable leadership that would threaten international treaties and world peace. Yet as Panetta spoke, Bernie Sanders supporters chanted, “No more war! No more war!”

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