Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Thursday continued to hammer Donald Trump over his Russian Federation remarks, saying his attempts to belatedly cast them as sarcastic are too late to undo the damage. Former Defense Secretary and CIA Director Leon Panetta told the Democratic National Convention, “It’s inconceivable to me that any presidential candidate would be this irresponsible”.
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YouGov’s latest research shows that Americans (54%) regard this call for a foreign power to intervene in an election as inappropriate.
“I think his comments were just reflecting on the state of cyber security and the fact that we are hacked all the time“, Alex Holden with Hold Security, LLC said.
US computer experts have said they believe Russian state actors are behind the hack, and some Democratic officials claim the timing of the leak suggests Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to skew the USA election process in Trump’s favor.
There’s no evidence that Trump made an agreement with Russian Federation, or that either he or Russian Federation took any steps to finding the emails. However, he did promise that “a lot more material” relevant to the United States electoral campaign was on its way.
“As someone who was responsible for protecting our nation from cyber attacks, it is inconceivable to me that any presidential candidate would be that irresponsible”, he said.
He also said Moscow “probably” already has the emails Clinton considered to be private and deleted after serving as the top US diplomat from 2009 to 2013. “I don’t think this is a man who has any interest in understanding the complexity of foreign policy”. “It has nothing to do with Russian Federation, it has nothing to do with any country other than the United States and his normal tax auditing process”. Trump also tweeted a similar message after the conference, no doubt at the behest of someone on his staff who realized the gravity of what he’d said on-camera.
In a move that should surprise precisely nobody, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has gone back on his word. Only after a national firestorm and a night’s sleep did Trump say he was joking. “It could be China”. It could be someone sitting in his bedroom.
Obama told NBC News on Tuesday that outside experts have blamed Russian Federation for the leak.
The possibility of a Trump-Vladimir Putin friendship has alarmed some Republicans.
“I never met Putin”, he said during a press conference at his Miami-area hotel.
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Ryan countered on Tuesday that North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is an “indispensable ally” and said the agreement is “as important now as I would say it’s been in my lifetime”. “And when I’m being sarcastic with something”. He added that the USA knows that “Russians hack our systems – not just government systems, but private systems”. News4’s Tom Sherwood reports.
