“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”, Trump said.
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This is why professional politicians avoid sarcasm, to avoid uttering words that create an uproar. U.S. presidents in the modern era have seen singular sentences and offhand comments define global perceptions on USA policies and leadership.
On Tuesday, Sanders displayed dignity by sticking to his principles and promising to fight for his cause, and he showed grace by conceding defeat and urging his supporters to vote for Clinton. As a result, the room for error is far narrower than before.
Hard though it may be, imagine you are Donald Trump. “I’m pretty sure that any USA government will pay full respect to those decisions”, he told reporters. “He’s done so much to hurt our country with our worldwide relations”.
Trump, who now gets government intelligence briefings, suggested on Wednesday that Russian Federation could help find emails known to have been deleted from Clinton’s private server when she was the secretary of state on the grounds that they were personal. Senior policy adviser Stephen Miller blasting “Hillary Clinton’s enablement of foreign espionage with her illegal email scheme”.
Trump, who later said his comments were intended sarcastically, spoke out after U.S. President Barack Obama said it was possible Russia would try to influence the U.S. presidential election after a leak of Democratic National Committee emails that experts have blamed on Russian hackers. “Given the grave nature of this breach and the fact that it may ultimately be found to be a state-sponsored attempt to manipulate our presidential election, we believe a heightened measure of transparency is warranted”, wrote Ms. Feinstein and Mr. Schiff, the vice chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, respectively. Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, meanwhile, issued a statement Wednesday about the hack, saying there should be “consequences” for those responsible.
He indicated that the response to the incident had been somewhat overblown, describing it as “hyperventilation”.
“Today, Donald Trump once again took Russia’s side”, Panetta said. Maybe I’m wrong, but as a longtime Trump-watcher, that’s how it came off to me. “If it is Russian Federation and they are interfering in our elections, I can assure you both parties and the United States government will ensure there are serious consequences”, Pence said in the statement.
As Beauchamp points out, whether Russian Federation is actively supporting Trump’s candidacy is unknowable, but what we do know is 1) Russian Federation is interfering in the USA election in a way that helps Trump, and 2) Trump’s foreign policy views align well with Putin’s goals.
Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks as he accepts the nomination during the final session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. July 21, 2016.
Noah said he was perplexed with how much Trump got away with saying and with Trump’s candidacy in general. If only it were amusing. “Donald Trump is asking one of our adversaries to engage in hacking or intelligence efforts against the United States to affect our election”.
Retired Navy Adm. John Hutson also piled on.
And like clockwork, such is the case with his comments calling on Russian Federation to find Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails. “That’s not law and order, that’s criminal intent”, he said, playing off a slogan that Trump emphasized at the Republican convention last week. But it turned out that Trump and Putin were interviewed in separate locations. But Democrats aren’t likely to let the Republican presidential nominee’s extraordinary comments simply fade away.
“This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue”, he said on Wednesday.
Obama’s decision not to attack the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for its use of such arms was seen by critics as a disastrous blow to not just his own credibility but that of the United States itself. His comments on Mexicans and Muslims and the like get him into trouble and are more than fair game for criticism. A day after making the comments and defending them, Trump has a novel explanation for all of it: I was joking! Though just a candidate, the policies would have major implications for their security should he be the next occupant, causing consternation in foreign ministries around the world.
“It’s a leading theory, but we couldn’t prove it in court at the moment”, the official added.
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“These are his role models”, the host said while pointing to on-screen photos of Trump next to Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
