At the same time, Trump at his news conference dismissed suggestions that WikiLeaks’ release of embarrassing Democratic Party emails last week was engineered by Russian Federation to meddle in the US election.
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US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has urged Russian Federation to find the missing emails of Hillary Clinton, while she was secretary of state, drawing condemnation from his Democratic rival.
Republican Party’s presidential nominee Donald Trump has said that he was “being sarcastic” when he suggested that Russian Federation should find Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s missing emails.
The emails, published by WikiLeaks last week, revealed that the DNC favoured Clinton’s candidacy over rival Bernie Sanders, triggering a leadership shake-up within the DNC. The party chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, resigned on Sunday over the affair.
Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, are sending some mixed signals fewer than two weeks into their partnership. If there is no outcry about Trump’s behavior from responsible Republicans, the party will be setting a risky precedent that its members, not to mention the country, will come to regret. “If he disagrees, he should denounce his comments and say clearly that national security and foreign policy are more important than this kind of hyper-partisan dialogue”. “Putin should stay out of this election”. “Trump was interviewed by CBS’s Scott Pelley in his New York City penthouse for the season premiere of the hour-long docu-series, while Charlie Rose traveled to Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin”.
He said: “I’m not going to tell Putin what to do. I hope they do”, Trump told reporters at a press conference in Miami.
Democrats at their convention on Wednesday night were likely to draw a contrast between their candidate’s approach on national security and that of Trump, which her campaign characterized as unsafe. “That’s not hyperbole, those are just the facts”, Clinton senior advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement.
“In that statement that you showed from the Clinton campaign, it said, you know, you’re inviting a foreign power to invade our national security”. The Fox host added that Trump “is right to point out that Hillary Clinton has not had a press conference”.
“First of all, he didn’t encourage anybody to hack”, Manafort.
“Donald Trump’s comments today would not be believable if he was a character on ‘House of Cards”, Wyden said.
Or perhaps it could have been laughed off as a joke if not for Trump’s myriad other displays of contempt for the rule of law: from his advocacy of torture to his call to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.
Donald Trump seems to crave attention at any cost. The claim is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but Trump maintains he not bothered by such a prospect.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied on Wednesday any Russian involvement in the U.S. electoral process.
The investigators believe the Russian intelligence is behind a wave of cyber attacks on political organisations and think tanks in Washington.
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The Kremlin said earlier that unidentified individuals in the United States were trying to cynically exploit fear of Russian Federation for electoral purposes.
