Mr Trump was interviewed on Thursday night by Larry King, a former CNN host who now presents a show on RT America, a Russian-funded TV network. “Maybe the Democrats are putting that out - who knows”, Trump told King. You tell me: “Who hacked?”
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Trump said he’s anticipating going head-to-head against Clinton at the first presidential debate, scheduled for Sep.
During the wide-ranging interview, the real estate tycoon also said it was unlikely that Russian hackers targeted Democratic Party databases as part of an effort to influence the election.
Trump criticized US policy in Iraq from the time of Republican President George W. Bush, who ordered the American-led invasion in 2003 in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, al Qaeda attacks on the United States. But once we went in, Larry, we shouldn’t have gotten out the way we got out.
“He’s not too much of a factor”, Trump said.
The Trump-Putin bromance of sorts has even become a meme.
Trump’s business ties to Russian Federation have also been probed, though as long as he hasn’t released his tax returns, the full extent isn’t known.
Jose A. DelReal covers national politics for The Washington Post.
He also suggested that the allegation was politically motivated.
King’s phone interview with Trump had ended extremely abruptly, when King asked Trump his thoughts about Mexican immigrants.
Appearing on a television network funded by the Russian government, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump lashed out at what he described as the dishonest American press.
In 2008, Republican nominee John McCain blasted Russia’s military actions in the country of Georgia and argued he would take a more aggressive approach against the country as president. The two reportedly talked several times a day.
Critics of the network, which mostly targets audiences outside of Russian Federation and also includes programming in Spanish, Hindi and Arabic, have described it as a propaganda arm of Putin’s government. Trump then attacked Obama and Clinton, the president’s first secretary of state, for their roles in the USA troop withdrawal from Iraq.
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The number of Republicans who viewed Putin “very unfavorably” shrank from 51 percent in 2014 to just 22 percent in 2016.
