“I don’t think I’ve ever seen what Donald Trump said today, which was he is encouraging a foreign country to commit cyber espionage and hack into the political opponents [sic] of one team here in the United States”, said a stunned Maher.
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YouGov’s latest research shows that Americans (54%) regard this call for a foreign power to intervene in an election as inappropriate.
Mr Trump’s vice-presidential running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, said he expected the Federal Bureau of Investigation to get to the bottom of the matter.
Some Democratic officials are claiming that the timing of the release of the documents, just before the Democratic convention convened this week to acclaim Clinton’s nomination, suggests that Russian President Vladimir Putin favors Trump in November’s USA national election to pick Obama’s successor. “Now Mr. Trump is openly appealing to him to do so”.
Manafort defended Trump in his interview with Fox News and said, “First of all, he didn’t encourage anybody to hack.He was making a sarcastic point about those 33,000 missing emails”.
Similar to his “blood coming out of her wherever” or “there has to be some form of punishment” for abortions debacles, Trump has now changed his answer twice, because America forgot to call “no take-backs” before giving him a microphone.
“You have 33,000 emails deleted, and the real problem is what was said on the emails from the Democratic National Convention”, Trump added.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who has already twice denied any Russian involvement in hacking Democratic Party emails, said the allegations were a “vivid example of the use of anti-Russian sentiment for electoral purposes in the United States”.
“I said he’s a better leader than Obama because Obama’s not a leader”, Trump said.
Democrats – and some Republicans – quickly condemned the remarks by the Republican presidential standard-bearer. He said blaming Russian Federation was deflecting attention from the embarrassing material in the emails. It could be someone sitting in his bedroom. “It’s disgraceful”, Trump said. Trump says there’s no drought in California.
Donald Trump at a campaign rally on Wednesday in Toledo, Ohio.
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Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, said if Russian Federation were “interfering in our elections, I can assure you both parties and the United States government will ensure there are serious consequences”. Is the Party of Reagan going to sit idly by while their candidate suggests that foreign government hackers should infiltrate the US government?
