But Obama’s point, which he made with sometimes smiling incredulity, was to wonder how the America he knew, the decent and generous and optimistic America that had elected him twice, was actually considering a homegrown demagogue looking to find an America that never was, someone whose arena was a TV studio, a helicopter with 24-carat-gold seat belts and a bankruptcy court where the suckers helped pay his way. I’m just expressing my opinion. “I speak my mind and I’m not going to be put in a box just because my brother is the President of the United States”, he says.
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Trump said the emails, which showed DNC staffers behind the scenes supporting Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, demonstrated that the primary elections were what he called “a fixed race”.
Wikileaks released more than 19,000 emails from the DNC last week.
Trump, whom Democrats have accused of having cozy ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin, repeatedly declined to condemn the actions of Russia or any other foreign power of trying to intervene in the a USA election.
Trump’s senior policy adviser, Stephen Miller, said the Democratic Party is obsessed with Trump but they “offered no solutions”.
“Russia has no respect for our country, if it is Russia”, Trump said. It could be someone sitting in his bedroom. “It does not make any sense at all”, he said.
It was not immediately clear where or how Clinton’s deleted emails might be recovered, unless an adversary had previously hacked the computer server she operated in the basement of her home in Chappaqua, New York, before she had deleted the messages. She has not commented on the incident. “Donald Trump calls it “a divided crime scene” that only he can fix”.
“President Putin has repeatedly said that Russian Federation has never interfered and does not interfere in internal affairs, especially in the electoral processes of other countries”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, while not directly denying Russian involvement in the hack, says Moscow would never interfere in another country’s election.
“If you talk about some suspicions regarding our country, then you need at the very least to be precise and concrete”, Peskov added. He said “speculation in this case does not show a constructive attitude”.
“Anything is possible”, Obama told NBC News in an interview due to air later – the furthest the USA government has gone in pointing the finger at Russian Federation for a vast release of Democratic National Committee (DNC) e-mails by WikiLeaks.
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Even as the US continues to secretly hack its own adversaries, Obama is raising the stakes for countries caught behind the keyboards engaging in cyber espionage.
