Rival Hillary Clinton had criticised Trump for praising Putin on Wednesday, and this will only further exacerbate the school of thought that Trump has ties to Russian interests. “Our enemies probably hacked into Hillary Clinton’s emails”.
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Mr Trump was interviewed on Thursday night by Larry King, a former CNN host who now presents a show on RT America, a Russian-funded TV network. “I never met Putin”, Trump said, responding to the Democratic National Committee hack and charges the Russians were trying to meddle in US elections.
“Any time anyone states says that generals are rubbish or an individual is not a hero because he or she was captured I find it appalling”, Cooke said in a statement, referring to Trump saying Sen. “And I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Russian Federation”. “I think this will be the last election that the Republicans have a chance of winning because you’re going to have people flowing across the border, you’re going to have illegal immigrants coming in and they’re going to be legalised and they’re going to be able to vote and once that all happens you can forget it”, he said.
A Trump spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, suggested that Trump was not aware that King’s program was linked to the Russian-backed network.
Anna Futoryan, a Russian working in New York City who was in Moscow on vacation, compared Trump to one of Russia’s own politicians, the eccentric veteran nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky who is famous for his outlandish views. “We have nothing to do with it”.
Private cybersecurity analysts have blamed Russian intelligence agencies for electronic break-ins into Democratic Party computers, including a breach of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the House Democrats’ campaign arm.
Earlier this week Defence Secretary Ash Carter said the USA would not ignore Russia’s “efforts to interfere with our democratic processes”.
While Trump has leveled similar criticism in the past, doing so on Russian television could draw more criticism from those who have questioned his overtures to Putin, including a number of Republicans.
Putin “has very strong control over a country”, Trump added.
“One has to be a little careful to let flattery affect one’s judgment”, Corker told CNN. Locked in a brutal campaign with Democrat Clinton, Trump made the blunt appeal to the Values Voter Summit in Washington bringing together about 1,000 faith-based grassroots activists, conservative lawmakers and leaders of religious and pro-life groups.
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Donald Trump told a Kremlin-funded television station on Thursday that it was “probably unlikely” that the Russian government was exerting any influence on the United States presidential election.
