The Kremlin says it had zero involvement in the hacking of Democratic Party emails while U.S. officials say the hack originated in Russian Federation.
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Later in the conference, the candidate was asked if he was really urging a foreign nation to meddle in the nation’s elections – to which he dismissively responded, “That’s up to the president”, before telling the female questioner to “be quiet”.
Obama traditionally avoids commenting on active FBI investigations, but he told NBC News on Tuesday that outside experts have blamed Russian Federation for the leak and appeared to embrace the notion that President Vladimir Putin might have been responsible because of what he described as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s affinity for Putin.
Trump sought to distance himself from the purported Russian connection to the hacking at Democratic offices and Moscow’s supposed support for his candidacy. “I hope we get along great with Putin”. You know what the N-word is, right?
Putin was outraged by US support for Ukraine and by USA military intervention around the world, particularly in Libya, on Clinton’s watch. Trump later said he was being sarcastic.
As for the lies: He said that the Islamic State hasn’t been mentioned at the Democratic convention; it has. “We will be in Moscow at some point”, he said.
“In their view it is fair play”.
Trump, however, saluted the British vote, saying “they took back their country, it’s a great thing”. “If Russia or China or any other country has those emails, I mean to be honest with you, I’d love to see them”.
“Putin has the luck of the devil”, said Mark Galeotti, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. But Greene said he thought what would matter most to Moscow would simply be to destabilise and to ensure that whoever won on November 8 emerged as a weak figure. Flynn has argued that the United States needs stronger ties to Russian Federation to fight Islamist terrorism. After repeating his disparagements of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation alliance, he was asked if his administration would lift sanctions on Russian Federation and recognize its annexation of Crimea, the Ukrainian territory that it invaded and occupied in 2014.
Above all, though, he wants to make sure that external forces do not derail his own push for continued dominance in a political landscape where the liberal opposition is nearly completely absent from TV screens and parliament. The future of the Syrian president has been a major stumbling block in Syria talks between Moscow and Washington, with Russian Federation insisting that Assad can only be removed through an election. He said one nice thing about me.
Erdogan’s widening roundup of tens of thousands of suspected followers of the Pennsylvania-based cleric he blames for the attempted takeover, Fethullah Gulen, includes many USA allies and contacts, hampering counterterrorism efforts, two senior American officials said.
Vladimir Vasilyev of the government-affiliated Institute for USA and Canadian Studies told the RIA Novosti news agency that there was no way to prove who had hacked the DNC.
“It’s pure politics, it’s not about military secrets”.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, who reluctantly endorsed Trump just before the GOP convention over which he presided, was more than just unsupportive of his new leader’s latest blurtation.
“It was way over-the-top emotional”, Clinton said. The danger of Turkey turning the Black Sea into “a lake” by closing the Bosphorus to Russian naval ships based in Crimea is now gone, he said.
Later, he dismissed concerns raised by Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook that his comments raised national security concerns.
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Comparing the groups’ tools, techniques and previous known targets, CrowdStrike said the groups were affiliated with Russia’s civilian and military intelligence agencies, including the GRU. “We know what his motives are; but what Moscow’s motives are, are not quite so clear”. The Smoking Gun website said June 21 the hacker provided it with stolen files, and the trade publication Motherboard said June 23 it interviewed the hacker.
