O’Neill said it would be a “nightmare” for Clinton if Russian hackers have stolen some of her emails.
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Hillary Clinton’s campaign and Democrats have tried to paint Trump as Putin’s candidate of choice, and have implied that the Trump campaign could have played some role in Russia’s hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s servers.
The official also emphasized that the briefings for Trump and Clinton “will be provided on an even-handed, non-partisan basis”.
In doing so, she was implicitly rebuking her rival, Republican nominee Donald Trump, who has questioned the need for the Western alliance and suggested that if he is elected president, the United States might not honor its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation military commitments, in particular regarding former Soviet republics in the Baltics.
“You know, the people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, would rather be with Russian Federation than where they were”, Trump said.
While Putin and Erdogan remain at odds over Russia’s backing of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, they agreed this week to meet August 9 near St. Petersburg, Putin’s hometown. “I never met Putin, I don’t know who Putin is”.
“You have to be kidding”. “You have 33,000 emails deleted, and the real problem is what was said on the emails from the Democratic National Convention”. You look at that.
Trump has “shown a very troubling willingness to back up Putin”, Clinton said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday”.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, who reluctantly endorsed Trump just before the GOP convention over which he presided, was more than just unsupportive of his new leader’s latest blurtation. The committee is supposed to be neutral. “Despite the promise of sanctions easing the bigger concern is the unpredictability of a Trump presidency when it comes to geo-politics; you simply don’t know how he would react in any given situation”.
The reality TV star turned presidential contender detonated the controversy Wednesday when he said, Russia, if youre listening, I hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing..
Long before their names became entangled with calls for cyber warfare and accusations of treason, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had a missed connection in Moscow. She handed over thousands of emails in 2015 to USA officials probing that system, but did not release about 30,000 deleted emails she said were personal and not work-related.
It’s vital for Russian Federation to have an ally within North Atlantic Treaty Organisation that will hesitate to move against the country in the event of a conflict, a senior official in Moscow said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the hacking allegations were a “vivid example of the use of anti-Russian sentiment for electoral purposes in the United States”. “The Americans needs to get to the bottom of what these emails are themselves and find out what it’s all about”.
On Wednesday, Trump, who’s exchanged compliments with Putin, went further, saying he’d consider recognizing Russia’s claim to Crimea and lifting sanctions imposed on Russian Federation over Ukraine’s separatist revolt.
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On Wednesday, Donald Trump essentially encouraged Russian Federation to cyberspy on our government after admitting he hoped the foreign power hacked Hillary Clinton’s email.
