In an interview with The New York Times last week, Trump said he would decide whether to protect the Baltic states against Russian aggression based on whether those countries “have fulfilled their obligations to us”.
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US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sensationally challenged Russian Federation on Wednesday to hack into Democrat’s candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails. “I think you probably will be mightily rewarded by the press”. “This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue”.
Trump denied the allegations that Putin ordered Russian spooks to hack the Democratic National Conventions’ emails in order to benefit his campaign. “Let the president talk to them”.
“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”, he said. “But guess what, he [Obama] didn’t shoot people at The Washington Post or the The New York Times”, Scarborough said.
Putin’s visit has angered Ukrainians living in Slovenia, who have announced protests.
Stephen Miller, senior policy adviser for Trump, battled back, saying in a statement: “It is alarming that Leon Panetta would, through his silence, excuse Hillary Clinton’s enablement of foreign espionage with her illegal email scheme and her corrupt decision to then destroy those emails and dissemble her “private” server to hide her crimes from the public and authorities”.
Some linguistic experts, who have analyzed Guccifer 2.0’s speech pattern on a Twitter chat log, have concluded he must be Russian.
Regardless of where it originated, the hack has been extremely damaging for Clinton.
“Donald Trump says he gets his foreign policy experience from watching TV and running the Miss Universe pageant”.
But on Thursday afternoon, the coordinator of a youth group that supports President Vladimir Putin stood alone outside the American embassy in Moscow, wearing a black t-shirt she made herself with a picture of Hillary Clinton on it, along with the words “Crooked Hillary”.
Analysts say the Kremlin would welcome a Trump victory in November because the wealthy NY businessman has repeatedly praised Putin, spoken of wanting to get along with Russian Federation, and has said he would consider an alliance with Moscow against Islamic State. So he’s certainly doing a better job than Obama is.
Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump walks to the stage during first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Monday, July 18, 2016.
The row spotlights deep U.S. distrust of Russian Federation, fueling more headlines about if Russian Federation may have hacked into Democratic Party e-mails which, once leaked, hugely embarrassed the Clinton campaign.
“We know perfectly well that candidates in the heat of a pre-election struggle say one thing, but that later, when under the weight of responsibility, their rhetoric becomes more balanced”.
A U.S. State Department spokesman declined to comment on Trump’s remarks on Wednesday.
Kilmeade jumped in to ask, “Are you being sarcastic?” “I think he does respect me”. “They are trying to kill the sanctions with a softly softly approach”, one of the diplomats, from a country which favours their continuation, told Reuters. “Calling on a foreign government to go after your opponent in an American election?” “We commit ourselves to working energetically to prevent the election of someone so utterly unfitted to the office”.
But that is partly because the Democrats were thinking by the conventional standards of political logic, which has never been Trump’s way.
Meanwhile in Moscow the officially the country is neutral, Russian President Vladimir Putin has hailed Trump as a “very talented” leader.
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Russian hackers said to have broken into Democratic Party computers left a digital trace to show that Moscow is a cyber force to be reckoned with, U.S. security officials have claimed.
