During a Republican primary debate in November, Trump said, “I got to know him very well because we were both on 60 Minutes”.
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Trump, the Republican nominee, said the idea he was politically linked to Russian Federation or the DNC hacking was “ridiculous”. “Who knows who it is”.
A U.S. official said Thursday there was “little doubt” Russian Federation was behind the DNC hack, prompting some Democrats to allege that Moscow is trying to tilt the election in Trump’s favor.
The real-estate magnate said at a press conference Wednesday in Florida that if Russian Federation was listening he hoped it would be “able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”. “I think you’ll be rewarded mightily by our press”.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation recently concluded that Clinton was “extremely careless” in her handling of classified information contained in the emails, but said no criminal charges were warranted.
“I have concerns that an agency of foreign intelligence is hacking and interfering with a USA election”, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta told Reuters.
Those emails, released on the website WikiLeaks, showed a coordinated effort within the party to sabotage Bernie Sanders’ campaign. The head of the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, resigned over the disclosures. “That’s not hyperbole. Those are just the facts”.
“Running for president is not a joke”, Clinton spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri said at a campaign briefing on the final day of the Democratic National Convention. President Barack Obama, who previously was caught on a hot mic telling Vladimir Putin that after his 2012 election he would have more flexibility, has now implied that Putin is trying to sway the 2016 election in favor of Trump. “We never poke our noses into others’ affairs and we really don’t like it when people try to poke their nose into ours”, he said, adding, “The Americans need to get to the bottom of what these emails are themselves and find out what it’s all about”, he said.
But Trump’s statement would be protected under the First Amendment as a result of the imminence standard established in the Supreme Court case Brandenburg v. Ohio, Feldman says. “I was shocked to hear him mention the N word”, he said. “If Russia or China or any other country has those e-mails, I mean, to be honest with you, I’d love to see them….”
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During his successful run for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump contended, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters”.
