The revelations come after Mr Trump insisted this week he did not know and had never met Mr Putin amid the Kremlin’s denials Russian Federation hacked Democratic Party emails and Mr Trump’s calls for the country to break into Hillary Clinton’s server.
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Now comes the open invitation to Russian Federation to meddle in our politics.
No wonder many observers believe Russian Federation is trying to facilitate the victory of Trump. He wondered on Twitter in 2013 whether Putin would show up at the Miss Universe beauty pageant in Moscow – “if so, will he become my new best friend?”
Trump went on to make headlines after a press conference in which he pooh-poohed the theory, saying, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”. “Almost all of the oligarchs were in the room”, Trump bragged to the media on returning home. In fact, Trump has invested into a range of things in the post-Soviet world. And a lot of them have turned into conservative accounts, like fake conservatives. “This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent”, Clinton’s senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan said.
“It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond”, Trump said in a statement. Keep this one in mind. But fast-forward to the past couple of weeks and you get a few clues.
In an interview, with The New York Times just before the Republican convention, Trump said that if Russian Federation attacked North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member nations he would decide whether to come to their assistance only if he decided that they had “fulfilled their obligations to us”.
Earlier in the interview, the real-estate magnate shrugged off his campaign’s influence in removing a provision of the Republican Party platform that would’ve advocated providing arms to Ukraine to defend itself from Russian aggression.
People who have studied him for years say he believes the United States is trying to foment the same kind of unrest to oust him. “Trump’s policy is very scary for us and the Baltics”.
A little history: Back in March 2014, Russian Federation annexed Crimea, an autonomous republic of Ukraine.
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To understand what the Kremlin thinks about the prospect of Hillary Clinton becoming the USA president, it was enough to watch Russian state television coverage of her accepting the Democratic nomination. We doubt it will say otherwise until such time as everyone has forgotten the whole incident, which was far more relevant for the content it revealed rather than which hacker orchestrated it. Not good traits for someone who wants to be our president. Admiration for a strongman who would run rings around Trump should he be elected. Gingrich thereby echoes Neville Chamberlain’s description, three days before Munich, of Hitler’s pressure on Czechoslovakia as “a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing”. It’s harder to understand how a GOP candidate who invokes Ronald Reagan can be such a chump.
