When challenged by the press to condemn foreign powers that may be trying to intervene in the U.S. election, Trump replied: “No, it gives me no pause”.
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In 10 minutes, questioned Trump’s business acumen, his wealth – and his sanity. So, if that’s what really [is] in the 30,000 deleted e-mails, then there’s no national security to be involved at all.
Look, Trump says a lot of incendiary things.
Kilmeade also asked Trump to clear the record on some of his past controversies, including eliciting a “yeah” from him when he asked if Sen. Maybe I’m wrong, but as a longtime Trump-watcher, that’s how it came off to me.
Trump was referencing emails on Clinton’s private server that she said she deleted, saying they were private, before turning other messages over to the State Department.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is denouncing Donald Trump’s call for Russian Federation or any other foreign power to attempt to recover the Democratic presidential nominee’s missing emails. “What they said on those emails is a disgrace and they’re just trying to deflect from that”. “You react at the time”, he said.
On Wednesday, Trump was addressing the hacking of DNC emails, which American intelligence agencies have “high confidence” was the work of the Russian government. Instead, he said, Trump was “clearly saying” that if Russian Federation or anyone else already had Clinton’s deleted emails they should share them with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “He’s urging a hostile, foreign power to conduct espionage, to break into the American email system of the Democratic Party’s nominee to be president”.
Trump’s defenders on social media and elsewhere did suggest he was joking – including Newt Gingrich.
The former first lady, US senator and secretary of state will step out of the shadows of presidents past and present on Thursday for her chance to persuade Americans that she is the best choice to helm a nation looking for a new era of leadership. Instead, he doubled down on the idea that this might be a good thing because the emails could be kindly shared with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Nodding to voters’ concerns, Obama said he understood frustrations “with political gridlock, worry about racial divisions” and the slow pace of economic growth.
First: “By the way, they hacked – they probably have her 33,000 emails”. So I do that and they said I was mocking his disability. Clinton has said the emails she did not turn over were private.
“I will tell you this: Russian Federation, if you’re listening I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”, Trump said, referring not to the DNC emails but to communications that went missing from Clinton’s private server. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press”. “Let’s see if that happens, that’ll be next”, he said to a stunned group of journalists during a particularly unhinged presser.
“Of course I was being sarcastic”, the Republican presidential nominee said on Fox News’ Fox & Friends Thursday morning.
Trump slammed the twice-elected Obama as a “disaster”.
At the convention, Leon Panetta, former CIA director and defense secretary, said Trump is “asking a USA adversary to engage in hacking or intelligence efforts against the United States of America to affect an election”. He added that the US knows that “Russians hack our systems – not just government systems, but private systems”. Reporter: Now the trump campaign was busy last night responding to all those speeches from the democratic convention.
Donald Trump attracted a lot of attention of the negative variety with a statement during his press conference in Miami yesterday.
“Does that not give you pause?”
“His views of the world, as he says, ‘don’t jive, ‘ ” Trump said. “If they have them, they have them”.
“He mentioned the N word one time”.
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For nearly a century, they’ve been the old enemy. The FBI concluded it was possible hackers broke into her server but found no direct evidence. “It should disqualify her from office”. He claimed he had inspired North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to begin focusing on terrorism; the alliance was heading in that direction long before Trump opened his mouth. “Very, very bad. I don’t want them in this country”. The campaign instead argued semantics and said the issue was being politicized.
