Share

Donald Trump: Russian interference in United States election “unlikely”

But polls previous year also suggested it was just another issue for partisans. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press”. “I hope that if they are doing something I hope that somebody’s going to be able to find out so that they can end it, because that would not be appropriate at all”.

Advertisement

In a wide-ranging interview that aired Thursday evening, Trump spoke with journalist Larry King about the presidential race, American intervention in Iraq and the Middle East, and the potential intrusion by Russian hackers into Democratic Party databases.

“Very early in the conflict, extremely early in the conflict, right at the beginning, I made a detailed statement in an interview to Esquire Magazine”, Trump said in Cleveland.

The interview was striking given that Trump spent Thursday on the defensive over some of his laudatory comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin.

An August poll by the independent Levada Centre said 39 per cent of Russians who follow the USA election campaign would vote for Trump while only 15 per cent would choose Clinton, who is seen as anti-Moscow after her time as secretary of state. Putin has offered kind words for Trump in the past as well. And the appearance on Russian television suggested no hesitation from Trump to dive into the controversy. He went on to blame Democrats for stating that the Russians are involved in cyber-attacks during the election.

Those of you who figure you’ll be voting for Donald Trump most likely love his tough-talk ways, huge action-figure promises – and his unrelenting attacks on Hillary and Bill Clinton for what he calls their “pay-to-play” politics and practices. I’m not sure. You tell me.

Very likely, they would show that Trump has a great deal of debt owned by foreign interests that don’t necessarily share his America First views.

“I don’t have any opinion on it”, said Trump. Johnson made headlines this week after committing a big gaffe in an interview regarding his foreign policy. Johnson would need to earn 15% support in polls to make the stage, an effort seemingly hampered when he failed to identify the war-torn city of Aleppo, Syria, in a live television interview. But Trump has no plan to do that; he says he’ll have his children run the business while he runs the country. “I’d rather it be Hillary and myself, because we’re the only two with a chance of winning”.

“That’s how we got healthcare for 8 million kids”, she says. Trump has said far worse about President Barack Obama in appearances on USA television networks.

“He said one nice thing about me”. “If they want to join us in knocking out ISIS, that’s just fine as far as I’m concerned”.

Hillary Clinton gave her first formal press conference in more than nine months on Thursday and, all things considered, it was a non-event.

As would be anticipated from a former senator and secretary of state, Clinton displayed her knowledge and experience.

“It just seems to me that what they said, President Obama and Hillary Clinton and John Kerry – who is another total disaster – did exactly the opposite”, he said, mentioning the current secretary of state.

It was an unchallenged comment regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin that especially riled viewers. “I don’t know anything about it”, Trump said in response.

Advertisement

“I can not tell you how disappointed I was last night from both of them, quite frankly”, Graham said about a Wednesday night forum where Trump and Clinton answered questions about how they would handle the job of commander in chief.

Clinton Says Voters 'Deserve' to See Trump's Tax Returns