At a news conference in Doral, Florida, after Trump’s initial remarks, he was asked whether he had any qualms about asking a foreign government to hack into computers in the United States.
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Clinton says the emails were personal and not work-related, but for Republicans, it is a smoking gun for a cover-up involving her use of a private server during her time at the State Department.
But a Russian officials denied the claims outright. “If Russia or China or any of those country gets those emails, I’ve got to be honest with you, I’d love to see them”.
He said, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”.
Clinton, a Democrat who faces Trump in the Nov 8 White House election, responded with a campaign statement accusing him of posing a possible national security threat by urging Russian Federation to commit espionage and influence the vote.
“The Supreme Court said we have free speech under the First Amendment, but if we engage in speech that is meant to incite imminent lawless action and likely to incite that action, then that might be a crime if it’s otherwise proscribed by state or federal law”, said Obagi. It’s so ridiculous. Honestly I wish I had that power.
“I have no idea”, he said.
Over the weekend, Ms Clinton’s spokesman suggested that Mr Trump, who has previously spoken favourably of Mr Putin, was somehow involved in their release, which came on the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. “I don’t like Huma going home at night and telling Anthony Weiner all of these secrets, OK?”
Another Trump foreign policy adviser, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, flew to Moscow previous year to attend a gala banquet celebrating Russia Today, the Kremlin’s propaganda channel, and was seated at the head table near Putin.
Even among them, the disappointed remained firm in their support for Trump.
In an incendiary press conference, Trump launched a pre-emptive attack against Obama, calling him “the most ignorant president in our history”.
“He is trying to tell us he cares about the middle class. Give me a break”. The candidate said he was honored. They talk about religion, they talk about race, they talk about all sorts of things, including women.
The latest release is the second in the last few days.
“Her running mate is Tim Kaine, who, by the way, did a bad job in New Jersey”.
In April, Trump told The New York Times that he should not have retweeted an unflattering photo of Heidi Cruz, wife of GOP primary rival Ted Cruz.
Trump is successfully tapping into this economic, cultural and racial resentment, which is why he doesn’t care that the Republican National Convention was a bust – compared to previous ones. I saw him yesterday. “Hate destroys those who harbor it, and I refused to let hate destroy me”, said Sanders, a survivor of the Mother Emanuel Church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. He said, ‘I wouldn’t go to France.
Trump cast doubt on whether Russian Federation was behind that hack. “He has a total lack of respect for President Obama”, Trump said. “I don’t know who Putin is”. You know what the N-word is, right?
Trump’s campaign – whose slogan might as well be “Make Russia Great Again” – presents Putin with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reorient American foreign policy in Russia’s favor. “And I know just how to do it”.
Editor’s note: Frida Ghitis is a world affairs columnist for The Miami Herald and World Politics Review, and a former CNN producer and correspondent.
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“I would renegotiate so much of everything”.
