“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”, Trump told a televised news conference.
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Appearing on Fox News’s “Special Report”, host Bret Baier said that the “focus” stemming from Trump’s press conference from earlier in the day was what he said about Russian Federation.
His comments followed a massive leak of emails embarrassing to the Democratic Party that U.S. security officials are convinced was the work of Russian hackers likely as part of a government bid to swing the election toward Trump, who speaks fondly of Russian President Vladimir Putin and has business dealings in the country. It is hardly a surprise then, that Moishe Mana, a top fundraiser for Clinton, has offered a $1 million gift to the charity of Trump’s choice if he releases them.
“They have no idea if it’s Russian Federation, if it’s China, if it’s somebody else”.
The Clinton campaign immediately shifted into overdrive.
The exchange occurred after President Barack Obama identified Russian Federation as nearly certainly responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee.
It was 30,000 of the emails sent here that Trump was encouraging hackers to find. Honestly I wish I had that power.
Cyber security experts are appalled that a presidential candidate would call for a hostile power to commit espionage against his own country.
Vice presidential candidate Mike Pence issued a statement Wednesday morning saying that the Federal Bureau of Investigation will get to the bottom of who is behind the hacking.
And before the day was done, the clearly untrainable and unrestrainable mogul had given Democrats the one gift they could not have gotten from anyone else – a live negative political infomercial demonstrating what the parade of Democratic convention speakers have meant as they’ve attacked Trump for not having the temperament for the job.
Michael Hayden, the Central Intelligence Agency head under Republican President George W. Bush, told Buzzfeed News Trump’s remarks were “problematic”.
“It’s been 235 days since crooked Hillary Clinton has had a press conference”, he said. Trump, he said, calls the United States “a divided crime scene” and hopes to win votes by scaring people over immigration and crime.
“She totally rigged it”, he said.
“I’ve been doing very well with the Hispanic community”, he said.
The head of the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, resigned over the disclosures, which disrupted this week’s convention.
He said given the combination of factors, “we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail account”. They were awful things. Trump defended law enforcement. “You don’t see the good work they do”.
Trump, who has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin in the past, said on Wednesday he did not know the leader. “The chapter that I waited for, I never heard”. Who knows who it is… But this one, for me, was jaw-dropping. He said I was a genius.
Later, just hours before Obama was to address the Democratic convention, Trump bashed him as “the most ignorant president in our history”, and added that “I believe that Hillary Clinton will be even worse”.
A spokesman for Trump, Jason Miller, tried to tamp down the storm of protest, saying Trump did not urge Russian Federation to hack Clinton’s emails.
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Peskov also denied what he said were reports that Trump’s foreign policy adviser Carter Page met with Putin’s chief of staff during a visit to Moscow earlier this month, but it wasn’t clear what reports he was referring to.
