With the latest revelations that more Democratic party computer systems have been hacked including that of Hillary Clinton’s team.
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Trump’s relationship with Russia and favorable statements about Putin have come under scrutiny in recent days following his suggestion for Russian hackers to find emails that Hillary Clinton deleted after serving as secretary of state. “Don’t blame Donald Trump for that”. Russian Federation denies any involvement, but the incident helps shed light on how Russia’s political establishment perceives the two major-party presidential nominees.
“We need to head off any external attempts to interfere in the elections, in our domestic political life”, Putin, who is facing re-election in 2018, told officers from Russia’s FSB security service in February. He said Washington politicians often use the Russian Federation card during their campaigns. His credo, set out when talking about Islamic State a year ago, is to strike first “if a fight is inevitable” and, as Russian Federation has shown in its reaction to what it sees as NATO’s aggressive build-up near its borders, to respond in kind. A number of former Soviet states like Ukraine, and some European countries, have made similar allegations before.
CLINTON: Well, I think if you take his encouragement that the Russians hack into American e-mail accounts, if you take his quite excessive praise for Putin, his absolute allegiance to a lot of Russian wish-list foreign policy position, his effort then to try to distance himself from that backlash which rightly came not just from Democrats, but Republicans, independents and national security and intelligence experts leads us once again to include he is not temperamentally fit to be president and commander in chief. Not because Putin will pull Trumps strings, but that an analysis of Trump’s character concludes that the actions he will take will result in a reduction of U.S. influence in Europe and the Middle East as the United States reduces the role it plays in the likes of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and thus strengthening Putin’s hand to use his storm troopers to threaten the borders of more Eastern European nations with the aim of annexing more territory Ukraine style. “The people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, would rather be with Russian Federation than where they were”, he said on ABC’s “This Week”. “It’s not a question of whether Putin is good or bad”, she said. But I have no relationship with him.
“It was way over-the-top emotional”, Clinton said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived Saturday in Slovenia, a member of both the European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, testing Western unity in maintaining crippling sanctions against the Kremlin for its role in Ukraine. But Mischenko says many Russian political experts still view the NY billionaire with caution. “He said very nice things about me, but I have no relationship with him”.
“Trump is a maverick, and he’s unpredictable”, Mischenko says.
Clinton once compared the annexation of Crimea to Adolf Hitler’s moves into Eastern Europe at the start of World War II, a comparison that was deeply offensive in Russian Federation, where the country’s victory over Nazi Germany remains a prime source of national pride.
Clinton told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that Trump’s calls – which the Republican nominee has said were sarcasm – are a national security problem.
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TRUMP: It’s ― look, you know, I have my own ideas.
