WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said is reasserting that whoever hacked the Democratic National Committee and stole years of internal emails remains a mystery. “Yeah, we’ll be looking”.
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“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 previous year.
Russian Federation is partly bemused and partly concerned about this extraordinary United States election. Even Belarus, Russia’s closest ally and neighbor, did not recognize the annexation.
But in the instance of the president’s shared phrase with Donald Jr., not only was the context radically different, but also it was Obama who’d uttered that phrase first.
Trump claimed in an interview Wednesday with CBS that, “I have nothing to do with Russian Federation”.
But Crowdstrike and another security firm, ThreatConnect Inc. of Arlington, Virginia, said they found compelling clues pointing to Russia’s government when they analyzed the hackers’ methods and efforts to distribute the stolen emails and other files. Fortunately, FBI Director James Comey said in his Capitol Hill testimony that there is no evidence Clinton’s server was ever hacked by anyone. Putin reportedly sent a decorative lacquered box and a warm note to the United States businessman. They greeted Putin with a long applause and loud cheers.
“For him, it’s very important to be respected and to be treated as a world leader, and to have his own agenda”. “I mean who knows”, he continued.
Clinton once compared the annexation of Crimea to Adolf Hitler’s moves into Eastern Europe at the start of World War II, a comparison that was deeply offensive in Russian Federation, where the country’s victory over Nazi Germany remains a prime source of national pride. Putin has decried the build-up. Putin’s advisers must have told him that, while Trump’s people may have kept out of the Republican platform any mention of supplying offensive weapons to Ukraine, the document still includes this sentence: “We support maintaining and, if warranted, increasing sanctions, together with our allies, against Russian Federation unless and until Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are fully restored”. He then accused the U.S. State Department of financially supporting the protests that drew tens of thousands of people to the streets of Moscow to demand free elections and an end to Putin’s rule.
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.
Slovenia’s economic ties with Moscow date back to the communist Yugoslav era, and Russian Federation is Slovenia’s top non-EU trading partner.
Trump, however, saluted the British vote, saying “they took back their country, it’s a great thing”.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets members of the audience after speaking at a rally at K’NEX, a toy company in Hatfield, Pa., Friday, July 29, 2016. “Her temperament is weak and her opponents are strong”.
I reached out to experts in information security and data protection to get their thoughts on Trump’s statement and the implications it has.
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“And as far as the Ukraine is concerned, it’s a mess. But Trump delights in it, which is why his supporters love him, his detractors view him as reckless and the media can never seem to get enough”. “But weakness is not a bad quality for a woman”.
