The Clinton campaign called Trumps statement the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against a political opponent.. “Yeah, we’ll be looking”. But look at all the disgraceful things that Trump – the guy at the very top of the Republican ticket – has been saying right out in public.
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In the DNC email case, Russia’s political class sees the issue as an effort by Democrats to discredit Trump by portraying him as the Kremlin’s favorite. But you have 33,000 emails deleted, and the real problem is what was said on those emails from Democratic National Committee.
“I think maybe we should do a little following and let the neighbors take a little bit more of an active role in Ukraine”, Trump said in a television interview late a year ago.
Some Democratic officials are claiming that the timing of the release of the documents, just before the Democratic convention convened this week to acclaim Clinton’s nomination, suggests that Russian President Vladimir Putin favors Trump in November’s USA national election to pick Obama’s successor. They said they’re expecting some noise from other delegations that have been vocally opposing Clinton.
“I have nothing to do with Putin”.
“A globe-trotting American investment banker who’s built a career on deals with Russian Federation and its state-run gas company, Carter Page says his business has suffered directly from the US economic sanctions imposed after Russia’s escalating involvement in the Ukraine. I’m pretty sure that any U.S. government will pay full respect to those decisions”, he told reporters.
Q: “I would like to know if you became president, would you recognize [inaudible] Crimea as Russian territory?”
While Russia stands accused of hacking emails from the DNC for Trump’s benefit, both Russia and the billionaire categorically deny the allegations. Putin has decried the build-up.
Trump’s reticence to defend North Atlantic Treaty Organisation countries surely is music to the Russian president’s ears.
United States presidential hopeful Donald Trump says he was being sarcastic when he appeared to invite Russian hackers to find Hillary Clinton’s missing emails.
Obama has publicly used the word “dictator” on a number of occasions in reference to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad – including in a speech at the United Nations last September. “And it’s not a violation that the United States is prepared to tolerate”.
It must be hard for mainstream Republicans to hold their noses while keeping their eyes and mouths taped shut amid the blast of blather emanating from their presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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On the morning after Britain voted last month to leave the European Union, Putin sought to sound neutral, warning of the “traumatic effect” of the vote.
