Clinton’s camp believes that Moscow gave the mails to WikiLeaks, which released them last week, to foment unease between the former first lady and her one-time Democratic rival Bernie Sanders. I hope they do. “Let’s see if that happens”.
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The emails referred to are the private messages the Democratic presidential nominee had deleted.
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”, Trump told reporters. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press”.
“They probably have them”. Honestly, I wish I had that power.
Clinton put out eight years of recent tax filings last summer, and they lament that voters don’t seem to understand why Trump’s refusal to do the same matters.
“This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent”, Clinton’s senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan said. “This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue”.
“He was clever, he was informed, and he was not stumped on a single question”, Limbaugh said.
Donald Trump has challenged Russian Federation to find “missing” emails belonging to Hillary Clinton.
Trump’s appeal to Russian Federation provoked an uproar not only from the Clinton campaign but from Republican leaders and Trump’s own vice-presidential candidate. “What he intended was hand them over, yes. This is a bridge too far”.
“President Putin thinks he can get away with pushing around this administration”, Ryan said, “because the administration has given sort of appeasement feelings that they can do this”. Clinton has said the emails she did not turn over were private.
Trump’s campaign – whose slogan might as well be “Make Russia Great Again” – presents Putin with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reorient American foreign policy in Russia’s favor. To get them would require either have to breaking into Clinton’s private server or to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which said it recovered emails that had been deleted.
Trump’s extraordinary comments raised the specter of whether he was condoning foreign government hacking of USA computers and the public release of information stolen from political adversaries – actions that are at least publicly frowned upon across the globe.
Yet former Defense Secretary and CIA Director Leon Panetta took the comments as clear-cut, questioning Trump’s loyalty to the United States in an interview CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. However, other voicemails included in the dump shed more light on some of the inner machinations of the Democratic National Committee and the party’s supporters.
USA Today pointed out that Trump’s comments came as he was attempting to counter some of the publicity of the Democratic National Convention happening in Philadelphia this week.
“I have nothing to do with Putin”, Mr Trump said.
“Until you’ve sat at that desk, you don’t know what it’s like to manage a global crisis or send young people to war”, he will say. “Number two, he doesn’t respect him”, Trump said. But Trump, given the chance to clarify while he was still in front of reporters, did not back down when asked whether it concerned him that another government may have Clinton’s emails.
Elie Jacobs, a cyber-security expert from the Truman National Security Project, said it was likely that Russian Federation was involved with the hacking – but doubted links to Trump.
But he said that did not mean he was in the Kremlin’s pocket.
“Putin is eager to see Trump win, and that should worry every American”, former secretary of state Madeleine Albright told the Democratic convention on Tuesday night. “What we do know is that the Russians hack our systems”.
Buried among Trump’s unusual statements in Miami was his pronouncement that he would consider recognizing Crimea as Russian territory.
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“We’ll be looking at that”.
