Donald Trump suggested at a press conference that the Russian government, which is reportedly responsible for the DNC email leak, should hack the us government to find Hillary’s State Department emails.
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The boisterous billionaire has a freakish infatuation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The convention closes Thursday night following Clinton’s acceptance speech, during which the former secretary of state will make the case that she is better fit to be commander-in-chief than Trump.
Russian Federation told the United States on Thursday to get to the bottom of a hacking scandal involving Democratic Party emails itself and rejected what Donald Trump said was a sarcastic suggestion that Moscow should dig up Hillary Clinton’s “missing” emails. “I think you will probably be mightily rewarded by our press”.
The Clinton camp responded immediately and furiously.
His remarks on these lines during a news conference in Miami yesterday was considered by the top Democratic party leadership as seeking Russian intervention in the U.S. election system and a national security issue. FBI Director James Comey saidalthough the FBI did not find “clear evidence” that Clinton and her colleagues meant to violate the law, “there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information”.
It also all but overshadowed an embarrassing leak of different hacked emails, these from the Democratic National Committee, showing that party staffers supported Clinton over Vermont Sen.
Mr Trump also suggested that Mrs Clinton should not receive any security briefings due to the hack that would ensure “that word will get out”. But Democrats aren’t likely to let the Republican presidential nominee’s extraordinary comments simply fade away.
On Wednesday, he even said he “would be looking” into that when asked if he would want to recognize Crimea as Russian territory and lift sanctions against Moscow.
“To be clear, Mr. Trump did not call on, or invite, Russian Federation or anyone else to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails today”, Trump campaign senior communications adviser Jason Miller tweeted on Wednesday afternoon.
Trump fired back at Mook.
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. “It should disqualify her from office”.
On Twitter he added, “If Russia or any other country or person has Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 illegally deleted emails, perhaps they should share them with the Federal Bureau of Investigation!” “We commit ourselves to working energetically to prevent the election of someone so utterly unfitted to the office”.
In Moscow on Wednesday, Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Russian Federation would never interfere in another country’s election.
On a day when the election campaign reached new extremes of toxicity and strangeness, Trump held a press conference in Florida where he effectively asked a foreign nation to carry out cyber-spying on his rival for the White House.
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“Here’s what I know: he doesn’t joke”, tweeted Tony Schwartz, the credited co-author on Trump’s 1987 memoir The Art of the Deal.
