Mrs Clinton, a Democrat who faces Mr Trump in the November 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.
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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. “I think you’ll probably be rewarded mightily by our press!”
“As somebody who has now been in elected office at various levels for about 20 years, I have seen all kinds of insane stuff happen, and I think everybody that goes into campaigns not running scared can end up losing”.
Clinton’s campaign quickly denounced Trump’s comments and other Democrats said the remarks were shocking.
He was referring to emails on Mrs Clinton’s private email server that she deleted because she said they were private before she turned other messages over to the USA state department. She later apologized for the decision.
Trump was referring to tens of thousands of emails sent and received by Clinton during her time as Secretary of State.
During the news conference at his Doral golf resort, which lasted more than 45 minutes, Trump also called Obama, a Democrat, the most “ignorant” president ever.
Moments after he took the final question, Pence condemned the possible cyber-espionage, breaking from Trump for the first time since being selected as his vice president.
In this September 4, 2015, photo, Democrat Russ Feingold speaks with University of Wisconsin students during a campaign stop in Madison, Wis. Feingold and Republican Ron Johnson are both trying to re-introduce themselves to Wisconsin voters as they head toward a rematch in a race for the U.S. Senate.
“I have nothing to do with [Vladimir] Putin”, he said.
But his comments come in the context of a massive hack of internal Democratic emails that some USA officials and cybersecurity experts suspect was carried out by Russian Federation. It’s about the things they said in those emails.
The Democratic Party was hit with email problems of its own when hackers – suspected by the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign to be working for Russian intelligence agencies – stole internal emails and leaked them, damaging the party just days before Mrs Clinton was named presidential nominee. Whatever’s left of the Republican foreign policy establishment needs to make it clear that Trump’s flirtation with Russian Federation – especially President Vladimir Putin’s strongman ways – has gone too far.
Brazile said that from everything she has seen it seems like Russian Federation was involved in hacking the DNC in order to help Trump. The emails that were made public indicated that top DNC staffers were undercutting Bernie Sanders’ presidential candidacy, leading DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to announce her resignation from the post.
“It gives me no pause”, Trump said.
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“I’m not the first point out that it set a trap that the Clinton campaign fell right into”. The message it sends to allies, experts said, is that the United States can’t be trusted to honor its foreign commitments – which would be a major problem for the United States’ standing in the world and for maintaining and building relationships with allies.
