“Russia, if you are listening”, Trump told reporters Wednesday, “I hope you are able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”.
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He also said that he didn’t know who had hacked into the Democratic National Committee’s emails.
Clinton said past year that she had deleted the e-mails because they were personal and unrelated to her work as secretary of state. “The Russian hackers are certainly out there-but we don’t know who they are, so it wouldn’t be possible to prove that his words were likely to incite them to crime”.
Trump’s initial statement on the emails came on the third day of the Democratic National Convention, which opened amid a scandal involving the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s computer servers.
So when Trump addressed the rumors of Russian Federation being responsible for leaking incriminating Democratic National Committee emails by saying, “I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”, regarding Hillary Clinton’s deleted messages, everyone lost their minds.
The flap over Clintons emails came after Obama identified Russian Federation as nearly certainly responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee in a different case. “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. It’s disgraceful, it’s disgraceful. And the biggest problem is that they won’t just find things to make Clinton look bad, they could potentially find confidential information that would put the entire nation at risk. He said one nice thing about me; he said I’m a genius.
FBI Director James Comey criticized Clinton’s use of emails stored on a private server but the Justice Department declined to prosecute earlier this month. Encouraging Russian espionage and interference in a US presidential election, however, represents a depressing new low.
In an interview with Fox News in September, Mr Trump said he thought the Russian President Vladimir Putin was far better than the current US President.
I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by the press.
“I hear that from my counterparts, my intelligence and security colleagues in many other countries who take very, very seriously and study very, very closely what the political figures in this country say”, Clapper said.
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“I said he’s a better leader than Obama”, Trump said, repeating himself.
