Paul Manafort, the campaign chair formerly worked as an adviser to Viktor Yanukovych, former Ukrainian president and a Vladimir Putin ally ousted in a revolution two years who is now living in exile in Russian Federation.
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In a series of tweets Monday, Snowden, a staunch supporter of Sen.
In this Saturday, July 23, 2016 photo, DNC Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz speaks during a campaign event for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during a rally at Florida International University Panther Ar…
Trump on Monday dismissed as a “joke” claims by Hillary Clinton’s campaign that Russian Federation is trying to help Trump by leaking thousands of emails from the Democratic National Committee.
Former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Their public release poured gasoline over embers of bitterness still smoldering from a long primary season.
Sanders supporters certainly weren’t amused. In the short term, however, he urged them to vote for the woman who beat him.
Meanwhile, some of Trump’s most striking policy pronouncements were very much in Russian interests, most spectacularly his questioning of Nato’s basic tenet, that an attack on one member state would be treated as an attack on all, and his campaign’s determination to strip language on supporting Ukraine against Russian intervention from the Republican manifesto.
The crowd responded with jeers that drowned out its progressive champion.
Wasserman Schultz announced that she would step down after the convention. She was drowned out by boos Monday while speaking to delegates from her home state.
The party delivered an apology to Sanders supporters as formal proceedings began. He contrasted that with Trump, whose convention featured angry speeches, few solutions and a headliner whose lifetime cause, Mook said, has been his own personal self-aggrandizement. The Vermont senator is scheduled to address the convention Monday night and urge Democrats to unite behind Clinton to defeat Donald Trump in November.
President Obama has resisted calls from his national security teams to do so, the Examiner reports.
Clinton’s campaign, citing a cybersecurity firm hired to investigate the leak, blamed Russian Federation for hacking the party’s computers and suggested the goal was to benefit Donald Trump’s campaign. In Philadelphia, it’s been noisy in the street. But he pumped the brakes when asked whether he believed Trump was directly involved. That’s a risk Democrats don’t want to take, and a reason why Sanders will have his work cut out for him over the next three months.
Sanders did not directly confront the delegates booing Clinton, but trudged on through his prepared remarks, having plainly failed to win his supporters over.
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These devastating timed leaks have complicated the task.
