Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, with former president and husband Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea.
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“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing”. Can you state for a fact that Ms. Clinton or her campaign staff didn’t dangle an enticement – say, a possible cabinet position – to prompt DNC chair Rep.
Clinton kept a private system for her emails at her NY home while she was at the State Department from 2009-2013.
The developments came as Democrats met on the third day of their presidential convention in Philadelphia, where Clinton will claim the party’s nomination Thursday night.
The Trump campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
The Democratic Party chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, resigned on Sunday after the leaked emails showed party leaders favoring Clinton over her rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, for the presidential nomination. “I know that experts have attributed this to the Russians”, Obama said.
“The world is a mess”, said Trump. He suggested that China or some other party could be involved.
If in fact Russian Federation hacked the DNC, Giuliani said, “Don’t you think they hacked her emails?”
Shortly after Trump’s extraordinary remarks, his Republican running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, took a different tack and warned of “serious consequences” if Russian Federation interfered in the election.
“We’re still witnessing attempts to use the Russian issue – in a paranoid way – during the USA election campaign”, he told reporters on Tuesday.
“President Trump would be so much better for US-Russian relations”, said the Republican nominee. “It’s disqualifying.” “If the Russians hacked into a political party’s account in a sovereign nation, that’s getting very close to an act of war”, said Lou Agre of Roxborough.
On Twitter, Trump issued a similar appeal, saying if anyone had Clinton’s emails, “perhaps they should share them with the Federal Bureau of Investigation!”
Obama also shared a pointed message for the Clinton campaign. “This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue”.
“I think you will probably be mightily rewarded by our press”, Trump said.
Credo Action is seeking 10,000 signatures urging national intelligence Director James Clapper to not allow Trump to be privy to classified information after Trump said Wednesday he wishes Russian Federation will find 30,000 personal emails that his Democratic challenger deleted from her term as secretary of state.
Democratic officials questioned whether Trump’s comments threatened national security. “It’s going to be an extension of Obama”. The Justice Department declined to prosecute Clinton over her email practices, but FBI Director James Comey called her “extremely careless” in handling classified information as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state.
He ended the media appearance by taking another swipe at Clinton, who would make history as America’s first woman president but who has been criticized for not holding a news conference since last December.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 27, 2016. “It’s just a total deflection, this whole thing with Russia”, Trump said.
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Komsomolskaya Pravda, one of Russia’s largest-circulation newspapers, minced no words on Wednesday, calling Clinton “the personification of evil” and lauding Trump who “appears to be fresh air from an open window in a room that no one has aired out for decades”.
