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. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press”.
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Those emails leaked by WikiLeaks showed the extent to which party leaders sought to undermine Clinton’s rival Bernie Sanders, even questioning his religious faith, and forced the Democratic National Committee chairwoman to resign.
Russian Federation is accused of hacking the Democratic National Committee intranet (DNC) for Mr. Trump’s benefit.
Trump, however, has expressed his opposition to regime change in Syria and said the U.S. and Russian Federation should focus on working together to destroy the Islamic State group.
Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan, said bluntly: “Russia is a global menace led by a devious thug”.
The comments about Russian Federation served as a talking point for Wednesday night- the third night of the Democratic National Convention.
Trump denied there was any evidence that Russian Federation was behind the attack, but also said the hacking showed a lack of respect of the US. In 2013, Trump tweeted: “Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow – if so, will he become my new best friend?” I said he’s a better leader than Obama.
“What the motives were in terms of the leaks, all that, I can’t say directly”, Obama said.
Obama said he was basing his assessment on Trump’s own comments and the fact that Trump has “gotten pretty favorable coverage back in Russian Federation”.
Donald Trump is very bad at making the case that he’s not Russia’s favored candidate in the 2016 USA election. “You’d see some beauties, so we’ll see”, he said during a press conference at his Miami-area hotel.
“He was joking around”, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Trump surrogate, said on CNN’s “New Day”.
Accepting Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea would be a radical departure from United States policy. Putin should stay out of this election and trump also dealing with his wife Melania back in the news.
“Russia has no respect for our country, if it is Russia”, Trump said.
The HBO host addressed the Trump-Russia connection-and his treason-adjacent ask-again during the panel portion of the show, pointing out that if Hillary Clinton had done the same, requesting that a hostile foreign actor commit cyberterrorism against her opponent, she’d be absolutely crucified and potentially be branded a traitor.
“If they hacked, they probably have her 33,000 emails”.
“For decades, Hillary Clinton has been embroiled in scandals caused by her own lies and unethical behaviour, and Americans have had enough of it”, said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus.
Soon after Panetta spoke Wednesday night, the Trump campaign released a statement criticizing the former defense secretary’s stance and saying it was Clinton who had breached national security.
Reeling off his greatest hits as president, from the auto industry bailout and health care overhaul to landmark deals on climate change and Iran’s nuclear program, Obama said the choice was between Trump vision of “a country where we turn against each other, and turn away from the rest of the world” and “the America I know”. Obama also appeared to embrace the notion that President Vladimir Putin might have been responsible because of what he described as Trumps affinity for Putin.
Moishe Mana, a top fundraiser for Clinton, has offered to give $1 million to the charity of Trump’s choice if he makes them public.
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In response to accusations of meddling in the USA electoral process, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin has repeatedly said that “Russia would never interfere and does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, especially in the electoral process”.
