Trump dumps the script in Clinton attacks
His campaign set him up for specific talking points on his rival's record, but the GOP nominee had other ideas.
By Nick Gass and Eli Stokols
09/06/16 02:46 PM EDT
Updated 09/06/16 05:23 PM EDT
Donald Trump's campaign's efforts to give the GOP nominee a new gloss of presidential plausibility ran up against the candidate's own stream-of-consciousness musings during a town hall in Virginia Beach on Tuesday afternoon.
The staging — with Trump seated in a chair with a group of veterans seated behind him — and the friendly questions from Gen. Michael Flynn were designed to show a more conversational candidate with a firm grasp of foreign affairs and the gravitas voters expect from a commander in chief. The list of 88 generals backing him blasted out by Trump’s campaign Tuesday morning was also part of a broader effort to regain credibility in that department.
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