During a news conference, Trump addressed Russian Federation and said he hoped the country could find Clinton’s missing 30,000 emails that were deleted from her personal server while she was secretary of state.
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Trump added that the over 30,000 emails that were missing from Clinton’s private server were sure to have “some beauties” among them, and that any foreign country who actually attempted the hacking would be demonstrating how little respect they have for the United States.
Trump himself has denied that he was somehow involved in the hack, which has been floated as a possible attack on the 2016 election process itself.
William Inboden, who worked for the NSC under President George W. Bush, said Trump’s joke was “tantamount to treason”.
The FBI investigated Clinton’s e-mail matter and concluded that she had been “extremely careless” in her use of classified material but did not recommend she face criminal charges.
“The America I know is full of courage and optimism and ingenuity”, Obama said.
When asked about his previous plans to travel overseas, Trump said at the press conference today he didn’t know if those plans would still stand, but he said a trip to Israel “could happen”.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday said he hoped Russian hackers have obtained 33,000 emails that his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton deleted from her private email server.
Trump dismissed the idea of Russian Federation being behind the DNC hack as a conspiracy theory.
Russia, if you’re listening, can you end this election soon?
But then Trump, taking to his usual medium of Twitter, doubled down on his comments earlier just minutes later.
“(Pence) is basically saying if there is a foreign power behind the DNC hack, that’s serious and somebody needs to check this out, which is the appropriate response”, said Helmke, a civics professor and former Republican mayor of Fort Wayne.
“The FBI will get to the bottom of who is behind the hacking” of the DNC emails, said Pence.
Wednesday night’s Democratic lineup was aimed at emphasizing Clinton’s own national security credentials, a shift from two nights focused more on re-introducing her to voters as a champion for women’s issues, children and families. “If Russia or China or any other country has those emails, I mean, to be honest with you, I’d love to see them”. But he refused to tell Putin to stay out of the election.
“He mentioned the N-word one time“, Trump said, referencing Putin.
Separately, the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this week was upended by a release of hacked emails from the party committee believed to have been orchestrated by Russian Federation. No. 1, he doesn’t like him and No. 2, he doesn’t respect him. It’s probably not Russian Federation.
“It is so far-fetched, it’s so ridiculous”, Mr Trump said of that theory.
Trump is trying to become the first Republican presidential candidate to win Pennsylvania since 1988, and there is evidence that the Democrats will have to fight for it. Terry Madonna, a political scientist at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., noted that Clinton is planning a post-convention bus trip that includes the Keystone State.
During the pugilistic news conference at his Doral golf resort, which lasted more than 45 minutes, Mr Trump also called current President Barack Obama, a Democrat, the most “ignorant” president ever.
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There are no published reports to back up Trump’s allegation about Putin’s use of the racially derogatory term, however. “He said one nice thing about me”, Trump said.
