Hillary Clinton on Sunday sharply criticised Donald Trump over his “absolute allegiance” to Russian policy aims, saying it raised both “national security issues” and new doubts about his temperament.
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The Russians and Republican candidate Donald Trump, who Clinton singled out in the same comments, accusing of “encouraging” Putin and showing a troubling willingness to make statements in favor of Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite his official status as “adversary”.
On a Fox News Sunday interview taped Saturday, Chris Wallace asked Hillary Clinton about Patricia Smith, whose son was killed in the 2012 attacks on US facilities in Benghazi, Libya. “It’s a security matter, for us, as to who our sources are”.
Federal agencies haven’t publicly said definitely that Russia or Russian-affiliated hackers are responsible for the DNC hack, but officials have said privately that is likely the case. “Well, look, you know, I have my own ideas”, counters Trump. “And we know that they arranged for a lot of those emails to be released”.
WALLACE: Do you believe that Russian Federation is behind the hacking and release of the DNC emails?
Trump, meanwhile, has encouraged Russian Federation to seek and release more than 30,000 other missing emails deleted by Clinton.
The presidential candidates sparred over Russia’s role in the US and the world Sunday, with Democrat Hillary Clinton saying Russian intelligence had hacked the Democratic National Committee and Republican Donald Trump suggesting Russia doesn’t have a presence in Ukraine. I thought the whole point of Trump’s foreign policy was to avoid unnecessary antagonism with Russian Federation, especially in its own sphere of influence.
Clinton went on to outline a generally right-wing perspective on economic and social policy, rebuffing suggestions from Wallace that she was “offering more government programs” and “more spending, more entitlements, more taxes”. “He’s sort of, I mean”.
Russian Federation is playing an increasingly prominent role in the election between Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. His wife, if you look at his wife, she was standing there. Trump later brushed his comment off as sarcasm.
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“And it’s yet more proof why Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be Commander in Chief”.
While Trump is the object of ridicule in the United States for his bromance with Putin, our allies don’t think he is the slightest bit amusing. “I don’t – I’ve never met him”, Trump said.
Saturday he demonstrated how utterly despicable he is when in an ABC interview he attacked the Gold Star mother who stood by her husband Khizr Khan at the Democratic convention. “She doesn’t know how to win.I had a flawless campaign.She could barely beat Bernie”, he said. You tell me, but plenty of people have written that.
Trump caused an uproar during a press conference last Wednesday when he called on Russian Federation to release 30,000 emails deleted from Hillary Clinton’s private email server – a comment which the Clinton campaign said amounted to a presidential candidate encouraging a foreign adversary to conduct espionage against the United States. We will make them as carefully and consistently as we can. The effect of this line of criticism was to transform Trump’s anti-Muslim smear into an attack on the military and allow the Democrats to wrap themselves in the flag, which is Clinton’s apparent strategy for the final 100 days of the presidential campaign.
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Khan went on to say that Trump is “incapable of empathy”. The Democratic National Convention was troubled by chaos and dissent. That would appear to be former New York City mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg (who is worth about six times what Trump claims he is worth, which is widely believed to be exaggerated).
