The Democratic National Convention was troubled by chaos and dissent. But I am deeply disturbed by the way that Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign as the DNC head last weekend. WikiLeaks released 20,000 stolen emails revealing a clear, if unsurprising, preference for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders among Democratic officials. This appears to be a foreign intervention in American politics – and it may only be the beginning.
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Russian Federation is indignant about allegations that it was involved in hacking the Democratic National Committee and releasing thousands of embarrassing emails through WikiLeaks.
“And as far as the Ukraine is concerned, it’s a mess”. “Having a good relationship with Russian Federation is a good thing, not a bad thing”, he said on ABC. “This is going to a place where we’ve never gone before, to push back against the families of the fallen”, he said.
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”, Trump said at a news conference in Miami on Wednesday.
“Of course I’m being sarcastic”, Trump said in a Thursday morning interview with Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade. In return Putin has praised Trump as “bright and talented”. The church was erected to honor 100 Russian World War I prisoners of war who died in an avalanche while building a mountain pass for the Austrian army.
In the past, Trump’s campaign manager, political strategist Paul Manafort, lobbied on behalf of Viktor Yanukovych, a Ukrainian president and supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump’s foreign policy advisor Carter Page has his own business ties to the state-controlled Russian oil giant Gazprom. He also tweeted: “If Russia or any other country or person has Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 illegally deleted emails, perhaps they should share them with the Federal Bureau of Investigation!”
Trump said it would be a “great thing” if the United States got along with Russian Federation and if Russian Federation would help fight the Islamic State group.
“Given that combination of factors”, said Comey, “we assess that it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email account”.
Donald Trump’s request for President Vladimir Putin of Russian Federation to hack Democratic e-mails was a joke that USA pundits simply did not get.
On Wednesday, Trump asked Russian Federation “to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”, but later on said he was being “sarcastic” when he made that request.
Trump told Stephanopoulos that he has “made a lot of sacrifices”. Without the countering influence of the U.S., Putin has a good chance to achieve his dream of undoing the collapse of the Soviet Union, which he has called a “geopolitical catastrophe”, by reswallowing Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and other former Soviet republics.
Putin may just be getting started in his campaign to elect Trump.
A string of recent security breaches, including the 2015 hack of the Office of Personnel Management and more recent attacks, up to the DNC breach in May, likely were the work of Russian cyberthieves, he told TechNewsWorld.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is suggesting the US accept Russia’s annexation of Crimea if it would lead to better relations with Moscow and stronger cooperation in fighting Islamic State militants.
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Max Boot is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributing writer to the Los Angeles Times’ opinion section.
