Two U.S. intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the hack could be part of a broader campaign by Russian President Vladimir Putin to push back against what he thinks is an effort by the European Union and NATO, a military alliance of European and North American democracies, to encircle and weaken Russia. This comes on the heels of the hack into the DNC’s private emails that the organization was blaming on Russian hackers. And we know that he arranged for a lot of those e-mails to be released. “Who knows who it is”, Trump said.
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Asked in the interview Sunday if she was suggesting that Putin wants Trump to be president over her, Clinton responded that she wouldn’t jump to that conclusion.
Trump’s seeming encouragement of Russian hacking, Clinton told Fox, “raises issues about Russian influence in our election”.
This aggressive stance has not been shared by Trump, who told a German journalist that the USA should consider lifting sanctions and recognizing Crimea as a part of Russian Federation.
Trump, the Republican Party’s presidential nominee, immediately posted on Twitter: “The new joke in town is that Russian Federation leaked the disastrous DNC emails, which should never have been written, because Putin likes me”. Although the platform is not pro-Russia, Trump supporters succeeded in preventing a reference to arming Ukraine from being added. Democrats accused him of trying to get a foreign adversary to conduct espionage that could affect this November’s election, but Trump later said he was merely being sarcastic. After turning over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation all correspondence about government business during her tenure at the department, Clinton revealed at a press conference previous year that she had deleted about half her emails that pertained to personal matters, like her daughter’s wedding. Meredith Kelly, who is a spokeswoman for the congressional committee, said that after the committee discovered the security breach, they immediately took action.
In an interview on ABC’s “This Week” that aired Sunday, Trump asserted that Russian President Vladimir Putin was not going to invade Ukraine, where pro-Russian rebels – and some Russian special forces – have been operating for several years despite Putin’s reluctance to acknowledge any role.
Did the Russian government orchestrate the hack of DNC emails and their release just before the Democratic National Convention as a way to help Trump? “I’m leading her in the polls”, he said and alleged that Clinton She doesn’t know how to win. I have no relationship with Putin.
“Trump is a maverick, and he’s unpredictable”, Mischenko says.
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“I think his comments were just reflecting on the state of cyber security and the fact that we are hacked all the time”, Alex Holden with Hold Security, LLC said. “I don’t know- I- I wouldn’t know him from Adam except I see his picture, and I would know what he looks like”.
