The territory was the subject of a head-scratching exchange between Trump and ABC “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos.
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Trump said that Putin was “not going to go into Ukraine”, even though Russian Federation annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in 2014. You can put it down.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But you said you might recognize that. Trump replied, “OK. Well, he’s there in a certain way”. “But I’m not there”.
It seems that Moscow would be more comfortable with Trump presumably because he wants his country to disengage from worldwide affairs and leave the field wide open to Moscow, weakening USA commitment to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and endorsing the Russian perspective on Iraq, Syria and Libya.
Ms Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, also said his comments were a “national security issue”. Sullivan said in a statement.
Asked if the USA would improve its relationship with Russia by “bowing to the annexation of Crimea”, Trump reflected on the pro-Russian sentiment among some in the disputed area. Under him, he once again promised, “we’ll have a better relationship with Russian Federation”.
Hillary Clinton said that Russian intelligence services hacked into the DNC servers. He then accused the U.S. State Department of financially supporting the protests that drew tens of thousands of people to the streets of Moscow to demand free elections and an end to Putin’s rule.
“Well, look, you know, I have my own ideas. I think you will be mightily rewarded by our press”.
Two score and two years ago, we figured it was not just shocking – but an impeachable offense – when we heard the so-called smoking gun tape recording of our Republican president, Richard Nixon, planning to cover up the fact that his top advisers had hired burglars to break into the Democratic Party headquarters and bug the place to obtain damaging info in the 1972 presidential campaign.
And she discussed accepting the Democratic nomination Thursday night in Philadelphia – saying she was emotional when she stepped onto stage after being introduced by her daughter, Chelsea Clinton.
“And for Trump to both encourage that and to praise Putin despite what appears to be a deliberate effort to try to affect the election, I think, raises national security issues”, she said. But they also tell us that the DNC’s cyber theft is right out of Vladimir Putin’s playbook.
Trump had earlier unnerved NATO member nations by questioning the long absolute U.S. commitment to defend any member of the Atlantic alliance should it be attacked by Russian Federation. It fit the pattern of this mondo-bizarro campaign that the biggest news of the day at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia was made by the terminally unrestrainable 2016 Republican presidential nominee down in Florida.
“They only fear one thing, losing the election”, Trump said.
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“We are going to take care of this country first”, he told The Times, “before we worry about everyone else in the world”.
