If elected president, Trump may pull the USA away from North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and not defend the Baltic States, which could allow Putin to revive Russia’s Soviet-era influence over Eastern Europe. The Kremlin sees North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as one of the biggest threats to Russian security, and Trump’s stance plays perfectly into Putin’s playbook.
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“His comments weren’t a slip of the tongue but they’re of a piece with his obsequiousness” to Putin and Russia, Inboden said. Benton and his companion Megan Little from Washington described themselves as the type of people who would support a “true progressive” despite how Sanders’ campaign for president ended.
“Maybe we will, maybe we won’t”, Trump says when asked by Bill O’Reilly about whether he and Putin would have a good relationship. “He’s a really brilliant and talented person, without any doubt”, Putin told reporters, later adding, “(H)e’s the absolute leader in the presidential race”.
Until now, it’s a line the White House has not crossed with respect to Putin.
Accepting the Republican nomination, Trump has taken on new responsibilities. “Here’s a slight political scandal in which some officials of the DNC behaved in ways that were highly unprofessional, maybe unethical, when they were supposed to be neutral”, he told me.
Showing remarkable lucidity, one which seems to be lacking among most American voters, Peskov added that “We know perfectly well that candidates in the heat of a pre-election struggle say one thing, but that later, when under the weight of responsibility, their rhetoric becomes more balanced”. “He ran the KGB”, Obama continued.
“I have no relationship with him other than he called me a genius”.
Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, was also careful in his rhetoric with regard to Putin and Russian Federation, sparing them from his so-called “axis of evil” designation and famously saying he looked into Putin’s eyes and got “a sense of his soul”. Most notably, Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. made that very claim at a real estate conference in NY in 2008, saying “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets”. “Not just government systems, but private systems”. Russia’s role in the violence in Ukraine and the state-sanctioned use of performance-enhancing drugs for Olympic athletes are two much-discussed examples of such behavior. At the Republican convention, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called Clinton a “failed strategist who has permitted Russian Federation back in as a major player in the Middle East”. Determining attribution takes investigative work, which is ongoing, she said.
“He personally invited Russian Federation to hack us”.
TRUMP: I never met Putin. If those groups thought it was inappropriate for Trump to ask Russian Federation to “uncover” the emails, shouldn’t they also think Trump is too friendly to Russian Federation? The FBI is examing the hack, but hasn’t publicly pointed the finger at Russian Federation.
Whether or not you believe Trump and Clinton are blackmailed or bought, merely the prima facie recklessness of their conduct and associations would have disqualified either from government service, much less the nation’s highest office, scarcely more than two decades ago.
Officials stressed that the administration is only beginning to talk through a possible United States response, which could involve cyber countermeasures.
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. Trump’s actions reveal a man who puts himself and his business dealings first before his country’s global commitments; his refusal to allow the media and public to see his tax returns do nothing but to fester even more suspicion of where his loyalties lie.
The GOP nominee has repeatedly made positive comments about Putin.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Thursday that he was merely being sarcastic when he said that Russian Federation should look into Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s missing emails.
They say Trump has yet to grasp that words, especially those from an aspiring world leader, can have serious consequences at home and overseas.
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”, he said Wednesday.
The Democrats have seized on the DNC hack to allege that Putin has done it to help Trump.
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In a rush to attack Trump, the Clinton campaign forgot itself.
