“It’s troubling that some experts are now telling us that this was done by the Russians for the objective of helping Donald Trump”.
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Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” while commenting on Wikileaks releasing 20,000 emails that were stolen from the Democratic National Committee’s servers, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook said the Russian government was involved with the leak to help the Republican nominee Donald Trump get elected. “And, frankly, I think you’re going to see some of that resentment boiling over this week in Philadelphia”.
Lingering bitterness from the heated primary campaign between Hillary Clinton and rival Bernie Sanders erupted after more than 19,000 leaked emails seemed to confirm Sanders’ frequent charge that the administrative arm of the party, played favourites in the race.
Mook pointed to Trump’s position on North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – that he wouldn’t necessarily assist allies who haven’t contributed enough financially to the organization – and argued that position would aid Russian Federation in Eastern Europe, as well.
“It was concerning last week that Donald Trump changed the Republican platform to become what some experts would regard as pro-Russian”, Mook said.
“That’s what some experts are saying”, Mook replied. Mook didn’t provide evidence that Russians are behind the hack or release of emails, but when pressed by Tapper, he emphasized the accusations came from unnamed “experts“.
In a Twitter post responding to allegations of a link to Russia, WikiLeaks called the notion a “discredited conspiracy theory” and said there is “no affinity, whatsoever”.
It’s a charge some cyber security experts in the USA and overseas agree with. Decades-old American foreign policy is driven by an “often-hypocritical focus on democratization, inequality, corruption and regime change”, he told the Russian crowd, questioning the authenticity of U.S. democracy itself: “It’s not always as liberal as it may seem”.
“I knew that there was corruption, but the level of corruption throughout the political system is overwhelming”, Carson said Sunday on Fox News.
Mook’s comments seized on speculation about ties between Trump and Russian Federation.
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