He then looked directly into the news cameras and said, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”.
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It also all but overshadowed an embarrassing leak of different hacked emails, these from the Democratic National Committee, showing that party staffers supported Clinton over Vermont Sen.
Roughly 15 minutes after his press conference, Mr. Trump reiterated on Twitter: “If Russia or any other country or person has Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 illegally deleted e-mails, perhaps they should share them with the Federal Bureau of Investigation!”
Some officials believe Russian Federation may be responsible for the release of Democratic National Committee emails that show Democratic Party officials favoring Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders in the party’s presidential primary. “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”, Pence said in the statement.
Since everything coming out of a Presidential candidate’s mouth is over-analyzed, and there doesn’t seem to ever be a time when Donald Trump isn’t talking, the media (myself included) never seems to run out of material during this election season.
The boisterous billionaire has a freaky infatuation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Russia has no respect for our country, if it is Russia”, Trump said.
He spoke at the RNC but recently criticized some of the campaign’s foreign policy positions, reinforcing the notion the GOP is splintered under Trump’s inflammatory leadership.
“I do have a relationship, and I can tell you that he’s very interested in what we’re doing here today”, Trump told Roberts, when asked about his relationship with Putin. I say Trump lies.
But Trump said he was only being sarcastic. Common sense says that he only wants them to do that to potentially get Clinton in trouble, just like the DNC hack got Debbie Wasserman Schultz in trouble. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), several foreign ambassadors, and Wendy Sherman, the former undersecretary of state who led the USA negotiating team on the Iran nuclear deal.
At a news conference Wednesday in Doral, Florida, Republican nominee Donald Trump “ignited” a firestorm, CNN reported, after he broadcasted an apparent challenge to Moscow, Russia. Trump said in a Fox News interview broadcast on Thursday (Friday NZT).
“I don’t think we’re quite ready to make a call on attribution”, Clapper told an audience at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado, though he said Russian Federation was on the list of “usual suspects”.
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“I said he’s a better leader than Obama. We’ve got to come together as Americans and do the right thing for our future”.
