On Wednesday, he even said he “would be looking” into that when asked if he would want to recognize Crimea as Russian territory and lift sanctions against Moscow.
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And before the day was done, the clearly untrainable and unrestrainable mogul had given Democrats the one gift they could not have gotten from anyone else – a live negative political infomercial demonstrating what the parade of Democratic convention speakers have meant as they’ve attacked Trump for not having the temperament for the job. He began the day with a speech in Miami where he seemed to think that Russian Federation hacking the Democratic Committee computer was a good idea and if by chance they hand the emails that his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton got rid of when she was Secretary of State he would be fine if they released them too. “I think you’ll probably be rewarded mightily by our press!”
Jake Sullivan, a senior policy adviser to the Clinton campaign, responded by saying “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”.
Later, just hours before Obama was to address the Democratic convention, Trump bashed him as “the most ignorant president in our history”, and added that “I believe that Hillary Clinton will be even worse”.
Trump also protested what he called unfair media coverage and chided Clinton for not holding news conferences of her own.
Trump triggered a global wave of concern when he said last week that he might not come to the defence of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies he felt had not paid their fair share of alliance dues. But Trump repeated the call on Twitter, saying if anyone had Clinton’s emails, “perhaps they should share them with the Federal Bureau of Investigation!”
“If it is Russian Federation, which it probably isn’t, but if it is Russian Federation, it’s bad for a different reason, it shows how little respect they have for our country”, said Trump in reference to the Democratic National Committee email hack. She’ll lean heavily on her “stronger together” campaign theme, invoking her 1996 book “It Takes a Village”, her campaign said. The FBI concluded it was possible hackers broke into her server but found no direct evidence.
Regardless of where it originated, the hack has been extremely damaging for Clinton.
“Folks, you can not believe one word that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth”, Mr Kaine said. But whatever our disagreements may be, I’ve come here to say: We must put them aside for the good of our country and unite around the candidate who can defeat a risky demagogue. The presidency of the United States is the most powerful office in the world, and so I say to my fellow Independents: Your vote matters now.
Nearly as soon as Trump spoke, other Republicans raced in to try to reframe his remarks and argue that Russian Federation should be punished. Both Russia and Trump deny the allegation. Although many in Washington are hesitant to admit it, the United States never takes sides in foreign elections, except when we do. You know what the N-word is, right? “They have no respect for our leader”. I know how they felt.
Moss did call Trump’s comments the “most egregiously stupid thing I’ve ever heard a party nominee say ever”.
“Russia, if youre listening, I hope youre able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing”.
Later, he dismissed concerns raised by Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook that his comments raised national security concerns.
A Trump spokesman insisted the candidate was not encouraging law-breaking, but only urging Russian Federation to hand over emails hackers may have already obtained.
The Kremlin denies interfering in the U.S. election.
“He was joking around”, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Trump surrogate, said on CNN’s “New Day”.
Clinton put out eight years of recent tax filings last summer, and they lament that voters don’t seem to understand why Trump’s refusal to do the same matters.
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“Trump has left behind a well-documented record of bankruptcies, thousands of lawsuits, angry shareholders and contractors who feel cheated, and disillusioned customers who feel ripped off”, Bloomberg said.
