At a news conference in Doral, Florida, after Trump’s initial remarks, he was asked whether he had any qualms about asking a foreign government to hack into computers in the United States.
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Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said: “The idea that you would have any American calling for a foreign power to commit espionage in the United States for the purposes of somehow changing an election, we’re now in national security space”. “That’s not hyperbole, those are just the facts”.
“I mean, he is encouraging Russian Federation which, by all accounts, was behind a leak of our major – uh, one of our major political parties – uh, to do more, to go beyond, to try to hack into, uh, Hillary Clinton’s server to find missing emails, to kind of get in the middle of the scandal”.
Mr Trump’s running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation would get to the bottom of the matter. “It’s going to be an extension of Obama”.
President Barack Obama will call Hillary Clinton the most qualified person ever to serve as president in his address to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night, according to excerpts released by the White House.
A couple hours later, that new interpretation was echoed by Trump senior communications advisor Jason Miller – the former Cruz staffer who deleted a number of anti-Trump tweets after he was hired by Trump in June.
It’s not the first time Trump has addressed his relationship with the Russian leader, whom he has praised in the past.
“Russia has no respect for our country, if it is Russia”, Trump said.
Mrs Clinton kept a private system for her emails while she was Secretary of State.
“Cartoons are two-dimensional, they’re easy to absorb”, he said.
His speech contrasted with Republican Donald Trump’s dark speech last week at the Republican convention in Cleveland, where he accused Clinton of a legacy of “death, destruction, terrorism and weakness” and vowed to be vowed to crack down on crime and illegal immigration. He states he is “extremely wealthy” yet refuses to release his tax forms.
“I’ve never spoken to him”.
Coming off his own convention last week in Cleveland, Trump has campaigned throughout the Democratic conclave in Philadelphia. The two have reportedly expressed mutual feelings. From the podium at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Arena, speaker after speaker condemned the Republican nominee, saying his economic and foreign policies would trigger recession and undermine historic US alliances across the globe.
The two issues have been brought together by Trump but, on the surface, have nothing to do with each other.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. “You fell for my brilliant wife and partner Michelle, who’s made me a better father and a better man; who’s gone on to inspire our nation as First Lady; and who somehow hasn’t aged a day”, Obama said.
To Obama and Clinton, Trump’s comments only fed their contention that the billionaire businessman is unqualified to be commander in chief.
While some Democrats are predicting a relatively easy win over Trump in November, President Obama said on NBC’s Today show that nobody should take the election for granted.
“It’s inconceivable to me that any presidential candidate would be this irresponsible”, he said.
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“The Bernie folks felt very disenfranchised, very disrespected; there hasn’t been unity”, Sanders delegate Deborah Parker told KING 5 following the roll call vote.
