When news of hacked emails appeared from the Democratic National Committee’s elites showing their obvious hypocrisy toward minorities, women and certain religious faiths, the party moved to quickly change the narrative.
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Pressed by an NBC reporter if he had any “qualms” about asking a foreign government to hack into a USA politician’s emails, a seemingly irritated Trump said, “No, gives me no pause”.
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”, he said Wednesday. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press”. You take a look at what was said in those e-mails, it’s disgraceful.
The emails cast a shadow over the Democratic convention that started Monday by raising questions about the impartiality of the party in the primary process. Fortunately, little is likely to come of it. FBI Director James Comey said in sworn testimony that there is no evidence Clinton’s server was ever hacked by anyone.
Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Trump’s claim that he has spoken to Putin.
Overall, 40% of Americans think that Trump is too friendly towards Russian Federation, while 27% think that his current stance is about right.
While the Democrats were trying to sort out their own problems in Philadelphia this past week, Donald Trump was trying to steal some of the spotlight.
“That’s not hyperbole. Those are just the facts”.
Thursday morning, Republican nominee Trump told Fox News, “Of course I’m being sarcastic” about the invitation.
“I don’t think we’re quite ready to make a call on attribution”, Clapper told an audience at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado, though he said Russian Federation was on the list of “usual suspects”. “Truth be told, the richest thing about Donald Trump is his hypocrisy”. “I can’t believe he actually wants the Russians to do something like that. He is wrong on both counts”, he said. Here’s a video released by the New York Times that covers some of Trump’s alleged open invitation to espionage.
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California Governor Jerry Brown also laid into Trump. I spoke indirectly and directly with President Putin, who could not have been nicer.
