In this photo taken July 1, 2016, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Denver.
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Clinton also responded Sunday to Pat Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, who was killed in the attacks on the United States diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and who said at the Republican National Convention that Clinton “lied to me” and that she blames Clinton personally for her son’s death.
Trump’s comments Wednesday about Russian hacking set off a firestorm of criticism, and his efforts to recalibrate his remarks began hours after he looked into a bank of television cameras and declared, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing”.
In an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”, Trump suggested that the people of Crimea would rather be part of Russian Federation. “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”.
“Mister Trump is not the president of the United States, at least not yet”, said Yelchenko. I think he was just not being sarcastic, he was being ignorant. “Wouldn’t it be nice if we actually got along with people?”
Asked in the interview Sunday if she was suggesting that Putin wants Trump to be president over her, Clinton responded that she wouldn’t jump to that conclusion. Trump later said that his comments calling on Russian Federation to unearth the Clinton emails were just sarcasm.
In an unrelated though similar stumble for Clinton, last Friday, Wikileaks released emails from Clinton staffers plotting to undermine the Campaign of her opponent in the primaries, Bernie Sanders. “We would be looking at that”, he said.
While Trump’s position on North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has delighted the Kremlin, Clinton’s statement clearly stung.
Still, Slovenia has been careful to portray Putin’s visit on Saturday as strictly informal – officially Putin is coming to attend a World War I memorial – and not contrary to the official European Union policy of sanctions against Moscow.
Slovenian officials portrayed Putin’s visit as strictly informal and ceremonial, but said he would talk with officials on economic and bilateral issues. Because of course when Trump looks in the mirror, the man he sees is Vladimir Putin, a real despot who controls his media and people with an iron fist.
Chollet said Trump’s accommodating attitude toward Putin, his “gut impulse” policymaking, his idea of making a “game-day decision” about whether to honor North Atlantic Treaty Organisation promises, and the lack of specifics about how he’d achieve his goals are what make him so risky.
But that wasn’t Trump’s only comment on Putin during the event.
In this file photo taken on in September 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Vladivostok, Russia.
“I didn’t meet him”. On the personal side, he has openly admired Putin’s tough leadership. “I don’t know anything other than that he doesn’t respect our country”, he continued.
The Republican presidential nominee has praised Putin, saying he was a stronger leader than U.S. President Barack Obama, a Democrat.
“President Trump would be so much better for U.S”.
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Should Trump be elected, will he demand Russian gays be protected? “Now go out and make me do it”. “Losing a child under any circumstance, especially in this case – two State Department employees, extraordinary men, both of them, two Central Intelligence Agency contractors gave their lives protecting our country, our values – I understand their grief and the incredible sense of loss that can motivate that”, Clinton said.
