First: “By the way, they hacked – they probably have her 33,000 emails”. I hope they do.
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“You know why? You know why they do that? But it shows how weak we are, it shows how disrespected we are”.
“I have nothing to do with Putin”.
“He has a total lack of respect for President Obama”.
Now that we’ve got all that out of the way, on Wednesday night’s post-DNC live edition of Real Time, comedian Bill Maher-who is no fan of Trump’s-criticized Trump for asking Russian Federation to commit cyberterrorism against his general election opponent (which, by the way, may be a felony). “I was shocked to hear him mention the N word”, he said. “Let’s see if that happens, that’ll be next”, he said to a stunned group of journalists during a particularly unhinged presser. “Who knows who it is”, Trump told Fox.
“The reality is I don’t take Donald Trump as using that type of humor”, he said.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is trying to quell the furore over his call to Russian Federation to find Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails by saying he was being sarcastic. Suggesting that a foreign government hack into a database is “just unacceptable by any stretch of the imagination”.
He later said on Twitter that if anyone had Ms Clinton’s emails, “perhaps they should share them with the Federal Bureau of Investigation!” He has made a steady progression on this from “they have the emails” to “I hope they have them” to “if they don’t, I hope they get them” to “if they have them, they should turn them over”. Tur tried to steer him back to her original inquiry and asked again, “Does that not give you pause?”
“No, it gives me no pause”, Trump responded. “If they have them, they have them”. However, he did promise that “a lot more material” relevant to the United States electoral campaign was on its way. That a person in our government, crooked Hillary Clinton – here’s what gives me pause. “Truth be told, the richest thing about Donald Trump is his hypocrisy”. He wants you to believe that we can solve our biggest problem by deporting Mexicans and shutting out Muslims. They have no idea if it’s Russian Federation, if it’s China, if it’s somebody else.
Trump was referring to the 33,000 e-mails the Democratic presidential candidate supposedly deleted from the private server she used – against agency rules – during her 2009-2013 tenure as secretary of state.
Asked Thursday morning by Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade whether Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook was right to cast the quip as a national security issue, Trump was dismissive.
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“It is alarming that Leon Panetta would, through his silence, excuse Hillary Clinton’s enablement of foreign espionage with her illegal email scheme and her corrupt decision to then destroy those emails and dissemble her “private” server to hide her crimes from the public and authorities”, Trump senior policy advisor Stephen Miller said. The call itself could fall on tenuous national security grounds, as ample national security analysts have noted, but deleted emails supposedly containing yoga plans and dinner recipes rarely see such a vigorous, outspoken defense.
