“Russia, if youre listening, I hope youre able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing”.
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“Because I think they respect me. They probably have her 33,000 emails that she lost and deleted because you’d see some beauties there”, he said. The documents show DNC officials worked to support Clinton’s campaign, and discussed plots – not carried out – to smear Sen. “That’s not hyperbole, that’s just the facts”. But the Trump campaign seemed well aware of the potential for damage in his latest comments, quickly issuing a follow-up statement from Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, his running mate, that called on punishment for the hackers.
A woman wears a shirt reading “Trump Putin ’16” while waiting for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to speak at a campaign event at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire, Feb. 7, 2016. It’s so ridiculous. Honestly I wish I had that power. “If it is Russian Federation and they are interfering in our elections, I can assure you both parties and the United States government will ensure there are serious consequences”, he said in a statement.
“I have nothing to do with [Vladimir] Putin”, he said.
Obama, who speaks to the convention on Wednesday night, said his message would be that “the president of the United States is profoundly optimistic about America’s future, and is 100% convinced that Hillary Clinton can be a great president”.
How can you possibly know at this point that Ms. Clinton and her campaign were not responsible for rigging the Democratic Party primary process?
And once again, Trump is taking fire from fellow Republicans in a way that shatters all precedent, as disaffected conservatives receive one more sign that their party’s nominee is catastrophically unfit for office.
“It’s been 235 days since crooked Hillary Clinton has had a press conference”, he said.
Was Ms. Wasserman Schultz the instigator of the operation, or was she merely a tool manipulated by others?
“The world is a mess”, said Trump.
“This is going to be my first time voting”, she said. But the Russians have become more aggressive and easier to detect in the past two years, security experts said, especially when they are trying to move quickly. He said one nice thing about me.
Trump didn’t spare Bill Clinton from his fusillade, shredding his prime-time speech at the convention that was meant to show the country a personal side of Hillary Clinton as a mother, wife and scholar. “It was totally rigged”. “They didn’t honor the police, they didn’t honor law enforcement”, he said. “You don’t see the good work they do”.
Asked if he would recognize Crimea as Russian territory, Trump said he would be “looking into that”.
Now to be cIear, I have zero evidence that Trump is actually involved with Putin in anything more than a mutual love fest.
When asked by reporters if Russian President Vladimir Putin might favour a win for Trump, the billionaire said he had “never met Putin, I don’t know who Putin is”. He said I was a genius. “Why should I tell Putin what to do?”
Democratic Rep. David Cicilline, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a letter to Obama on Wednesday saying Trump’s “call for hostile foreign action” goes beyond partisan politics and “represents a threat to the republic itself”.
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The comments urging Russian Federation to hack the State Department immediately drew widespread attention because they lend the impression that Trump is actively encouraging another country to commit a cybercrime against the U.S.to directly affect the presidential election. Or is it enough simply to take Ms. Clinton’s word for it that she didn’t “know anything about these emails?”
