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Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was "correct" in 2013 when he said having women in the military increased the likelihood of sexual assault._ by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:28 PM UTCPublished: Sep 8, 2016 1:16 AM UTC by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:28 PM UTCPublished: Sep 8, 2016 1:16 AM UTC Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton squared off on military and veterans issues in separate appearances at a “commander in chief” forum in New York. Hosted by NBC, the event was held on the decommissioned USS Intrepid, now a floating museum. _Today_ show anchor Matt Lauer was the moderator. Here is a full transcript of the event. --- > “” --- ## Transcript In 2013 on this subject you tweeted this, quote, 26, 000 unreported sexual assaults in the military, only 238 convictions, what did these geniuses expect when they put men and women together? Well, it is It is a correct tweet, there are many people that think that's absolutely correct. And we need to have strength, and we need to have. So, this should have been expected and does that mean [ CROSSTALK ] fix this to take women out of the military? Well, it's happening, and by the way since then it's gotten worst, no not to take them out but something has to be happened Right now part of the problem is nobody gets prosecuted. You have reported and the gentleman can tell you, you have the report of rape and nobody gets prosecuted. There are no consequence. When you have somebody that does something so evil so bad as that There has to be consequence for that person. You have to go after that person. Right now, nobody's doing anything. Look at the small number of results. I mean, that's part of the problem. 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