But his running mate, Mike Pence, is sending mixed signals.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reacts as he speaks about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email issues during a campaign rally at the Sharonville Convention Center, Wednesday, July 6.
Republican Donald Trump appealed to Russian Federation on Wednesday to uncover and release thousands of emails Hillary Clinton did not hand over to us officials who investigated her use of a private email system when she was secretary of state. Trump himself has spoken favorably about Putin as someone he could negotiate with.
Experts who’ve followed the leak of Democratic National Committee documents say they believe the party’s claim that Moscow had a hand in the hack, lending weight to the extraordinary allegation that the Kremlin is trying to tamper with the USA presidential contest.
Democrats have been alleging that Putin is seeking to alter the White House race after WikiLeaks released damaging emails from the organization’s staff following the hack.
“If Russia or any other country or person has Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 illegally deleted emails, perhaps they should share them with the Federal Bureau of Investigation!” he tweeted. “If it is Russian Federation and they are interfering with our elections, I can assure you both parties and the United States government will ensure there are serious consequences”.
Meanwhile, Trump’s running mate, IN governor Mike Pence, struck a wholly different note on the matter.
The developing US strategy, unofficially dubbed “name and shame”, is meant to raise diplomatic consequences for foreign governments involved in state-sponsored hacking. She is due to accept the presidential nomination on Thursday, the last day of the party’s convention in Philadelphia.
“Russia is a global menace led by a devious thug”. But he refused to tell Putin to stay out of the election.
In an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday morning, former National Review editor George Will speculated that his so far unreleased tax returns could reveal the nature of Trump’s relationship with Russian Federation.
On the subject of the DNC hack, Trump said this was a sign of Russia’s lack of respect.
The GOP nominee, who has often reminded of Russian President’s Putin’s favorable comments about him, told reporters in a press conference at Trump’s Doral Club that he’d treat Russia “firmly” as president but that he’d rather have them “friendly” as opposed to the way they are now.
“I think this raises a very serious question, which is that the natural instincts of Hillary Clinton and the people around her, that when confronted with a serious domestic political scandal, that she tries to blame the Russians, blame the Chinese, etc”, he said.
Donald Trump has a message for Russia: Find Hillary Clinton’s emails. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Russian Federation maintains significant diplomatic clout in the world and America depends on its former Cold War foe in various security matters.
The Kremlin has dismissed accusations that its behind the hack, calling them “made-up horror stories”. Yet the fact that Putin is trying is remarkable and disturbing – as is the motivation Trump has given him to meddle.
They called in a cybersecurity firm, CrowdStrike, which found traces of at least two sophisticated hacking groups on the Democrats’ network, both with ties to the Russian government.
President Barack Obama said “anything’s possible” when asked by NBC in an interview that aired Wednesday whether Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to interfere with USA presidential politics.
Lucia McBath, mother of Jordan Davis who was shot at gas station in Jacksonville, Florida in 2012 for playing loud music, praised Hillary Clinton for sitting down with mothers who have lost children to gun violence. But another 30,000 were deleted because she claimed they had not relation to her public duties as Secretary of State. Obama also appeared to embrace the notion that President Vladimir Putin might have been responsible because of what he described as Trump’s affinity for Putin.
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He then issued a plea: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”. Because it shows how little respect they have for our country where they would hack into a major party and get everything.
