This must make the Russian president chuckle.
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Clinton’s senior policy adviser, Jake Sullivan, released a statement in response to Trump’s comments.
The Democrats, however, need a reality check.
Taking reporters’ questions after an appearance at Trump National Doral, in Doral, Florida, Donald Trump delivered some of his most unhinged proclamations of an already unhinged campaign.
On Wednesday, Trump said he had never met the Russian leader but cast doubt over accusations that Moscow was behind a hack of Democratic Party emails that embarrassed his rival Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Obama, who is the keynote speaker Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention, was asked in an interview with NBC’s Today Show whether Republican candidate Donald Trump could defeat the Democrat’s Hillary Clinton.
The media seems to have toned down requests that Donald Trump releases his tax returns and it is unlikely that the Republican nominee will release them before November.
ROBBY MOOK: The hackers that got into the DNC are very likely to be working in coordination with Russian Federation.
In December past year, Putin praised Trump as “a very striking man, unquestionably talented”. “I don’t think he respects Clinton”. The message it sends to allies, experts said, is that the United States can’t be trusted to honour its foreign commitments – which would be a major problem for the United States’ standing in the world and for maintaining and building relationships with allies.
Trump’s foreign policy advisor Carter Page has his own business ties to the state-controlled Russian oil giant Gazprom. He also has links to Alexander Mashkevich, a wealthy businessman from Kazakhstan.
In part, Putin’s been on the ABH bandwagon: Anyone but Hillary.
It’s worth remembering, too, that Ukraine and Kazakhstan are not part of Russian Federation.
Trump himself tweeted a similar sentiment on Tuesday. Now, the controversial website has published a vast collection of top-secret Kremlin documents showing that Vladimir Putin is a kind, sensitive and generous man who is misunderstood in the West.
Gov. Jerry Brown may not have gone to Donald Trump’s wedding – like Hillary Clinton did before she and Trump became political enemies – but he has had some up close time with the NY billionaire. There is no evidence that Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time, lobbied in favor of the deal or helped get it approved.
Trump’s suggestion he might abandon NATO’s pledge to automatically defend all alliance members is also likely to have gone down well in Moscow, where the military alliance is cast as an outdated Cold War relic. He said blaming Russian Federation was deflecting attention from the embarrassing material in the emails. After turning over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation all correspondence about government business during her years at the State Department, Clinton revealed at a press conference last year that she had deleted about half of her emails that pertained to personal matters, like her daughter’s wedding.
The uproar also takes the focus away from the broader failings of the Clinton campaign, which is even in the polls with a rival who has offended nearly every kind of voter, has managed a cheap, disorganized candidacy and has been caught lying.
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Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian policies are not popular among Americans, and if Trump’s tax returns link him to Russian Federation, it may hurt his campaign and trust factor in the general election.
