Pitching for a good relationship with China and Russia, Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump has said that it would be nice for the U.S. to get along with China and Russia, as he slammed Hillary Clinton for having bad relationship with Vladimir Putin.
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The Kremlin has repeatedly denied it was involved in hacking into the Democratic National Committee computers and said it does not favor any candidate in the November 8 us election.
US officials speaking unattributably have said Moscow was responsible, and President Obama, asked on Tuesday whether the Russians were trying to influence the USA election, replied, “anything’s possible”.
Trump’s seeming encouragement of Russian hacking, Clinton told Fox, “raises issues about Russian influence in our election”.
The United States would not tolerate that from any other country, especially one considered an adversary, she said.
She said those remarks, Trump’s praise for Putin, and his support for many Russian foreign policy positions, lead to the conclusion that “he is not temperamentally fit to be president and commander-in-chief”.
Speaking at a church service, Ms Clinton said Mr Trump had been insulting to a family who had sacrificed so much. Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort consulted for former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich, a key Putin ally, until his ouster in February 2014. Everything began with a declaration the businessman made this Sunday, claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t considering a military move into Ukraine, even though he has already done that, obtaining the Crimean Peninsula. Trump has said he does have a relationship with Putin, he doesn’t have a relationship with Putin, and he’s not entirely sure what constitutes a “relationship”.
“Interestingly, I own the Miss Universe pageant”, Trump added. “I never met Putin”, Trump replied. “The people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, would rather be with Russian Federation than where they were,”‘ he said.
In 2015 a GFK Ukraine poll found that 82 percent of people in Crimea fully supported Crimea’s inclusion in Russian Federation, 11 percent showed partial support, and 4 percent were against it.
But in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopolous, Trump decided the time was right to make jokes about dating Vladimir Putin.
Pressed further, Trump contradicted practically everything he’s said in years past, telling Stephanopoulos, “I don’t know what it means by having a relationship”.
Trump said that Putin was “not going to go into Ukraine, all right?” The current United States administration does not recognize the referendum and brands the move an annexation by Russian Federation.
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“But I think that we have been able to try to stay focused on those areas where we still have a common interest, understanding that we have deep disagreements on issues like Ukraine”. But neither do I think Mr. Trump is as ignorant as the press seems to think he is. I mean, they’re marching in favor of joining Russian Federation.
