“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”.
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“I am basing this on what Mr. Trump himself has said”, the president said.
Clinton’s campaign has said that Russian Federation hacked computers belonging to the Democratic National Convention and released those emails on the eve of the party’s convention to benefit Trump’s candidacy.
Obama said Russian President Vladimir Putin might prefer Republican nominee Donald Trump over his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, because the business magnate has “repeatedly expressed admiration” for the Russian leader in the past.
Asked about potential consequences for the hack, the White House described “a full range of options available to us in the government”.
Also Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry said he raised the issued during a private meeting with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Even if you’re inclined to believe that Hillary Clinton’s unseen emails from her stint at the State Department contain unspeakable political horrors and should face public scrutiny, your desire to see them should stop short of wishing for an act of foreign espionage.
Obama traditionally avoids commenting on active FBI investigations.
“I have nothing to do with Russian Federation”, he told reporters just outside Miami.
“It’s irresponsible. But that seems to be consistent with Trump’s campaign”, Reed, a Clinton supporter and the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, told WPRI.com in a phone interview from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. We’ll never know for sure though, after an aide stated today that Trump wouldn’t be releasing his tax returns during the election.
“What the motives were in terms of the leaks, all that – I can’t say directly”, Obama told NBC News.
Trump also suggested that Clinton should not receive any security briefings due to the hack that would ensure “that word will get out”.
From what I’ve read, we’re not there yet. He said blaming Russian Federation was deflecting attention from the embarrassing material in the emails, which WikiLeaks published last week on its website.
From what has been reported in the mainstream press, it seems some emails showed something of a “conspiracy” against Bernie Sanders in the sense that the Democratic National Committee was supposed to be neutral in the presidential contest and wasn’t. After all, in his recounting of Clinton’s “extreme carelessness” in handling sensitive communications FBI Director James Comey said it was “likely” that her server was compromised.
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In a November 10 GOP debate, Trump said: “I got to know him very well because we were both on ’60 Minutes, ‘ we were stablemates, and we did very well that night”.
