US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has doubled down on the claim that Russian Federation was behind the recent hacking attack against the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
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Donald Trump on Sunday insisted that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not “go into the Ukraine” despite the fact that Putin took Crimea from the European country two years ago.
“What I think unites Putin and Trump is an extremely cynical look at the world and the human condition, and I think this could, forgive me the pun, trump any other disagreements they may have”, he says.
Russian Federation is indignant about allegations that it was involved in hacking the Democratic National Committee and releasing thousands of embarrassing emails through WikiLeaks.
In this case, however, Soldatov said he thought it more likely that amateur hackers would have been responsible for the us hack rather than the FSB or GRU who, if involved at all, would have played only a very minor role.
The former secretary of state doubted if Putin was rooting for Trump in the race, but accused Moscow of “interference in our elections, in our democracy”.
The evidence mounts. USA intelligence agencies told the White House that they have “high confidence” that the Russian government was involved in the hack, the New York Times reported July 26.
Putin’s third visit to Slovenia since taking power in 2000 will also see him dine with President Borut Pahor at Brdo Castle, Yugoslav leader Tito’s former retreat where the Russian leader met then United States counterpart George W. Bush in 2001. Democrats accused him of trying to get a foreign adversary to conduct espionage that could affect this November’s election, but Trump later said he was merely being sarcastic.
“You know, the people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, would rather be with Russian Federation than where they were”, Trump later added.
Their surviving comrades, made to construct a mountain supply road by the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I, built a Russian chapel on the spot that still stands to this day.
Acknowledging that too many Americans feel that they’ve been left out and left behind by the economy and the government, Clinton said, “The kind of inflammatory answers that Trump has provided, blame somebody, blame immigrants, blame Muslims, blame women, blame somebody is attractive in the first instance to people who are looking for answers”.
“I do have a relationship, and I can tell you he’s very interested in what we’re doing here today”.
At the Democratic convention, I spoke with Hanna Hopko, a heroine of Ukraine’s democracy struggle and now chairwoman of the foreign relations committee in the Ukrainian parliament. Trump said those claims aren’t true and the Democratic Party is using his comments to distract from the email scandal.
Trump could either seek improved relations with Russian Federation, he says, “or he’ll create such a mess in the White House and in Washington generally that America will be weakened by a permanent political crisis and will not have much time to deal with Russian Federation or for that matter, any other issues”. We may never know who is right, but one thing is for sure – Russian Federation had motive, capability and form. I haven’t spent time with him.
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I believe we have put together an agenda to increase jobs, increase incomes, make our economy grow and be more fair, which is going to appeal to a majority of Americans. “But I was not involved in it”, Trump responded. “I hope they do … because you’d see some beauties there, so let’s see”.
