His decision that year to run for a third term as Russia’s President had inspired a massive protest movement against him. Some of his closest allies had defected to the opposition, causing a split in the Kremlin elites, and Russian state media had begun to warn of a revolution in the making.
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He then launched into a riff about “Hillary Rotten Clinton”, a play on her full name, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton has chosen Kaine to be her running mate.
Political Capital also says it has found evidence of the Kremlin’s efforts to alter the political balance in Hungary, Slovakia and Greece.
A US intelligence official who is reviewing the emails as part of the investigation into their origin said that those emails describing the privileges the Democratic National Committee showers on its wealthiest donors bolster the Russian narrative of an American political system rigged by the wealthy and riddled with corruption. “Considering the calculated release of these emails and the fact that it was Russian state actors that had the emails, experts have been inferring it was the Russians who perpetrated this leak for the objective of helping Donald Trump and hurting Hillary Clinton”.
A trove of internal DNC emails were posted online several days ago by WikiLeaks; law enforcement officials and cyber security experts have said Russian intelligence services appear to be behind the hack, an allegation echoed Monday by Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook. The consultant had been in contact with journalists in the Ukraine about Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, apparently trying to establish an alleged link between Manafort and Russian Federation. Lawfare went on further to call Wikileaks “weaponized”.
“We know that there are a variety of actors, both state and criminal, who are looking for vulnerabilities in the cyber security of the United States and that includes Russian Federation”, said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
But this doesn’t change the question voters in the United States should now be asking themselves: What could Putin be after in the US election?
The headquarters of the Democratic National Committee is seen in Washington, U.S. June 14, 2016.
Although the hacking of the DNC was known to officials and cyber security experts a month ago, the timing of the release of the contents of communications within the party is what is causing concern for USA authorities.
He said he had never met Putin.
Trump supporters succeeded in preventing a reference to arming Ukraine from getting into this year’s platform, but the manifesto itself is demonstrably not pro-Russia. “The Russian people, like people everywhere, deserve the right to have their voices heard and their votes counted”, Clinton said. Some say they’re still hoping for some miraculous, mathematically improbable come-from-behind win at the convention.
It was a fairly tame statement of support for the Russian opposition movement.
That Trump has sought Russian investment in the past is hardly a secret.
With a campaign based on Cold War rhetoric against the conniving West, Putin won that vote handily, and it is easy to see how he would relish the chance to manipulate the US presidential elections in return.
At least in his public statements, he has tried not to take sides between Clinton and Trump too overtly.
Mr Mook referred to Trump’s position on NATO – that he wouldn’t necessarily assist allies who have not contributed enough financially to the organisation – and argued that position would also help Russian Federation in Eastern Europe.
If Russia is found responsible, it would mean a foreign state had tried to influence the outcome of a US presidential election, said Justin Harvey, chief security officer at Fidelis Cybersecurity. “The world needs a strong country like the USA, and we need it, too”, he said.
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They infuriated Sanders supporters and led to U.S. Rep.
