Trump’s running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation would get to the bottom of the matter. “He said I’m a genius”, Trump said during a press conference in Doral, Fla. “And I was having fun and we were all having fun”. Asked when he would put out the documents, he said: “I don’t know”.
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GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s interview with The Detroit News. “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”. The claim to responsibility of a pseudonymous hacker, who said he was Romanian but couldn’t speak the language, looks like an unconvincing decoy.
Given that a high degree of expertise is required for such a hack, in which 20,000 DNC emails were leaked to Wikileaks, there is speculation as to whether the slip-ups were deliberate clues.
Democrats ramped up their attacks on Donald Trump on day three of the Democratic National Convention.
Democrats at their convention on Wednesday night were likely to draw a contrast between their candidate’s approach on national security and that of Trump, which her campaign characterized as risky.
Democrats and their enablers promptly accused Trump of “treason”.
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press”, he said.
Clinton kept a private system for her emails at her NY home while she was at the State Department from 2009-2013.
Clinton, a Democrat who faces Trump in the November 8 USA presidential election, responded with a campaign statement alleging he was posing a possible national security threat by encouraging Russian espionage to try to influence the vote. “I say Trump is a fraud”. They don’t know. They have no idea.
Trump twice misidentified the home state of Hillary Clinton’s new running mate, Tim Kaine. Pence condemned any possible cyber-espionage, breaking from Trump for the first time since being selected to run with him.
Former CIA director Leon Panetta said that Trump “once again took Russia’s side”.
“Russia is a global menace led by a devious thug”. “Putin should stay out of this election”.
Trump dismissed suggestions that WikiLeaks’ release of embarrassing Democratic Party emails last week was engineered by Russia to help nudge the USA election toward Trump, who has been called “very talented” by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Mr Trump scoffed, too-then, astonishingly, seemed to call for the Russians to dig up Mrs Clinton’s private e-mails as well.
It was not immediately clear where or how Clinton’s deleted emails might be recovered, unless an adversary had previously hacked the computer server she operated in her basement in Chappaqua, New York, before she had deleted the messages.
What has been Russia’s response?
Clinton made history yesterday when she became the first woman to secure the presidential nomination from a major party.
The Democratic Party chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, resigned on Sunday after the leaked emails showed party leaders favoring Clinton over her rival, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, for the presidential nomination. But informal surveys of Russia’s main outlets suggest that Trump gets plenty of praise – especially for his “anti-establishment” stance – and that favorable assessments of Hillary Clinton are comparatively rare.
“We have people coming in this country with very evil intentions”, Trump said. “It could be China”. It could be someone sitting in his bedroom. It’s probably not Russian Federation. “Nobody knows if it’s Russian Federation”.
“Anything is possible”, Obama told NBC News in an interview broadcast on Tuesday when asked if the Russians would try to influence the November 8 election. He called Russian President Vladimir Putin “a better leader” than President Barack Obama because “Obama is not a good leader”.
But Trump said that he was disappointed that Bill Clinton’s lengthy telling of their life story had left out a portion – presumably his sex scandals. “I was shocked. A total lack of respect for president Obama”, he said.
Trump has frequently voiced admiration for Putin, who has been in power for 17 years as president or prime minister and refuses to grant unconditional support for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies in the Baltic should they face hostile acts.
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Andrei Soldatov, who is an expert on the Russian security services and co-author of The Red Web, a book on how the Kremlin controls the Russian internet, says the Russian intelligence services themselves may not be directly tapping the keys when hacking organizations like the DNC.
