Clinton has said she deleted the emails because they were private, and not related to government affairs, even as she turned over to government investigators another 30,000 emails connected to her State Department business.
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All Trump said was that he hoped Russian Federation could find emails that Hillary Clinton deleted from her private server. “I hope they do”, Trump told reporters Wednesday morning during a press conference at his golf club in Doral, Florida. “They probably have her 33,000 e-mails that she lost and deleted because you’d see some beauties there”.
Donald Trump says he was using sarcasm when he prodded Russian Federation to unearth Hillary Clinton’s missing emails.
The DNC emails showed party leaders favoring Clinton over her rival in the campaign for the nomination, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Buck said in a statement: “Russia is a global menace led by a devious thug. (Vladimir) Putin should stay out of this election”.
Feldman says “a plausible case” could be made that Trump intends for Russian Federation or someone else to hack into the server, which is a federal crime.
Democrats said Trump essentially was encouraging a foreign power to commit espionage and meddle in US elections, showing he lacked the judgment and temperament to serve.
Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump. 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.
Democratic officials questioned whether Trump’s comments threatened national security.
Shortly before she was sworn in as secretary of state in 2009, Hillary Clinton set up an email server at her home in Chappaqua, New York.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concluded earlier this month that Clinton had been extremely careless in her handling of the classified material via a private email server, but did not recommend that she face criminal charges. WikiLeaks published the emails last week.
“I would treat Vladimir Putin firmly, but there’s nothing I can think of that I’d rather do than have Russian Federation friendly as opposed to the way they are right now”.
“Well, they probably have them”, Trump replied, referring to Clinton’s emails.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied on Wednesday any Russian involvement in the USA electoral process. In an interview recorded the same day, he called Putin “a better leader than Obama”. The group’s founder, Julian Assange indicated he waited until right before the Democratic convention to dump the information in order to embarrass Clinton.
