In the same news conference on Wednesday, Trump dismissed suggestions that Russian Federation had sought to influence the United States election by engineering the theft of Democratic Party emails released by WikiLeaks last week.
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While Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is doubling down on his call for Russian Federation to hack into his opponent’s emails, a chorus of condemnation for such action came swiftly, including a rejection from his own vice presidential running mate.
“It gives me no pause”, he said, “… “He was making a sarcastic point about those 33,000 missing emails”, Manafort added. “I mean, they will discover her yoga lesson schedule”.
The Republican presidential nominee, holding a Wednesday press conference, said that the 30,000 missing emails from Clinton’s private email server would reveal “some beauties” and made an extraordinary plea for a foreign power to locate them. I certainly don’t condone foreign actors breaking into private email systems of anyone here.
At a press conference in Miami, Trump focused on about 30,000 State Department emails that were deleted and not able to be retrieved by congressional and FBI investigators.
FBI Director James Comey has said an investigation found no direct evidence that Clinton’s personal e-mail domain was successfully hacked, but said it was unlikely investigators would see direct evidence.
Partisan figures rallied immediately to Trump’s defense, blaming the mainstream media for blowing Trump’s comments out of proportion and trying to shift the focus from Clinton’s judgment. “That’s not hyperbole, those are just the facts”, Clinton senior advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement.
“Deborah Ross has little credibility when it comes to national security after serving as the head of the ACLU chapter that called American intelligence agencies “dangerous” mere months after the September 11th terrorist attacks”, said Jesse Hunt, Burr’s campaign spokesman, Wednesday evening in an emailed statement.
The Clinton camp seized on Mr Trump’s encouragement to Russian hackers.
“You take a look at what was said on those emails, it’s disgraceful. Number two, he doesn’t respect him”, Trump said. It’s probably not Russian Federation.
Trump faced several questions about whether he has ties to Russia – which he denied – and his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But he refused to tell Putin to stay out of the election.
“I’m not going to tell Putin what to do. Donald Trump is asking one of our adversaries to engage in hacking or intelligence efforts against the United States to affect our election”.
“I will back Israel 100 percent”. It is posted in its entirety below; I encourage you to watch as much of it as you have time for. “By the way, Obama, in my opinion, is the single worst thing politically speaking that’s ever happened to Israel”.
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The billionaire businessman also brought up raising the federal minimum wage, declaring that he would hike the rate to $10/hour if he wins the White House this November.
