“And I think, as Americans, more of us should be concerned about why it is that Russians would be attacking the Democratic National Committee”, he said.
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“Russia has no respect for our country”, Trump said at news conference in Florida.
Analysts say the Kremlin would welcome a Trump win because the billionaire businessman has repeatedly praised Putin, spoken of wanting to get along with Russian Federation, and has said he would consider an alliance with Moscow against Islamic State.
Donald Trump’s stance on presidential candidates has changed significantly over the years.
Russian Federation has dismissed the allegations it was involved as “absurd”. “What do I have to do with Putin?”
Senator Cotton: Vladimir Putin was a KGB spy and he never got over that. “Why should I tell Putin what to do?” he said.
VLADIMIR PUTIN (translation): He is a very flamboyant man, very talented, no doubt about that. He is an absolute leader of the presidential race.
PETER LLOYD: How did it come to this?
The interview with Trump took place a few hours before the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and other young people who died as a result of gun violence or during an encounter with police.
As for the media, they should be demanding at every opportunity the release of tax returns from Trump, Manafort, Page and Flynn to see if they have financial connections to the Russian government, Russian-controlled entities or officials friendly to the Russian government.
PETER LLOYD: At the weekend, the shoe was on the other foot.
The embarrassing revelation prompted Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, to voice a theory on who was actually behind the leaks and hacks. His name, he said, was an homage to a famous Romanian hacker who went by Guccifer and who has been in prison since 2014. So this release offers little new forensic information.
Julian Assange said that he had downloaded the documents himself from a server called www.secretdocumentshere.ru which had accidentally been left unsecured.
Moscow’s judgment, the Post editorial claimed, is that “it stands to reap a geopolitical windfall if Donald Trump is elected president”. Trump said. “It’s not even about Russian Federation or China or whoever it is that’s doing the hacking”.
Tuesday afternoon, Trump tweeted: “For the record, I have ZERO investments in Russian Federation”.
PETER LLOYD: The blow-up has been building because of Trump statements about U.S. foreign policy under his presidency – or more precisely perhaps, how Trump statements are being reinterpreted.
This is the audio recording from his meeting with the Washington Post editorial team where those comments were made. We have to protect our police. “I’m not going to tell Putin what t do”.
It’s a sign to Tim Spangler, academic, businessman and commentator on the American political scene, that Hillary’s team is deeply anxious by the Trump phenomenon. Those who leaked them, and the WikLeaks operatives who facilitated those leaks, understand extremely well the dynamic of democratic political campaigns and have deliberately sought to disrupt this one. The VP selection has not gained traction, the Bernie supporters are broadly speaking incredibly unhappy.
President Obama said it’s possible that Russian Federation hacked into DNC files and leaked their contents.
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Releasing the documents through WikiLeaks makes it hard to directly link it to Russian Federation, says Fiona Hill, director of the Brookings Institution Center on the USA and Europe and a former national intelligence officer for Russian Federation and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council.
