Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump predicted Wednesday that Hillary Clinton’s plan for Syria would take the United States into World War III if she is elected president in less than two months.
Trump said in a Tuesday interview with Reuters that the U.S. should focus on defeating the Islamic State rather than getting involved in the Syrian conflict, adding that getting involved there would pit the U.S. against Syria, Russia and Iran.
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“What we should do is focus on ISIS. We should not be focusing on Syria,” Trump said in the interview. “You’re going to end up in World War III over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton.
“You’re not fighting Syria anymore, you’re fighting Syria, Russia and Iran, alright? Russia is a nuclear country, but a country where the nukes work as opposed to other countries that talk,” Trump said, adding that, “Assad is secondary, to me, to ISIS.”
In a statement, the Clinton campaign pushed back against Trump’s comments, arguing that the GOP nominee is still unfit to serve as commander in chief and doesn’t have a plan for the region despite his claims that he does.
“Once again, he is parroting Putin’s talking points and playing to Americans’ fears, all while refusing to lay out any plans of his own for defeating ISIS or alleviating humanitarian suffering in Syria,” Clinton spokesman Jesse Lehrich said.
The GOP nominee also touched on the lack of support he is receiving from some Republicans, especially those who pulled support after a video emerged almost three weeks ago in which he made lewd remarks about women on a hot microphone 11 years ago.
“If we had party unity, we couldn’t lose this election to Hillary Clinton,” Trump said.
