“Mr. Assange made it very clear when he dumped the first 20,000 that he was explicitly trying to help elect Donald Trump and damage Hillary Clinton”.
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The Clinton campaign shot back that Mr Trump was posing a possible national security threat while intelligence experts said the comments raised questions about Mr Trump’s judgment.
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.
President Vladimir Putin said in February he had seen specific intelligence suggesting Russia’s foreign enemies – code for Washington – were preparing to meddle in Russian parliamentary elections later this year.
Trump said he was not involved in Republicans’ softening of their platform language to remove a call to provide Ukraine with lethal weaponry.
A US official who is taking part in the investigation said that intelligence collected on the hacking of Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails released by Wikileaks on Friday “indicates beyond a reasonable doubt that it originated in Russian Federation”.
“For Trump to both encourage that and to praise Putin despite what appears to be a deliberate effort to try to affect the election I think raises national security issues”, she said.
The emails he referred to were on a personal server Clinton used while she was secretary of state. “As other members of families have lost loved ones, that’s not what they heard”.
“(Putin’s) not going into Ukraine, okay, just so you understand”, Trump said.
“Everyone in Moscow believes that with Clinton in the White House it would be absolutely impossible to get the sanctions lifted”, said Soldatov. “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!” “Watching my daughter and having her waiting on stage when I came out, I was pretty concerned about whether I’d make it through the speech”. But look at all the disgraceful things that Trump – the guy at the very top of the Republican ticket – has been saying right out in public.
Lazar admitted hacking into the email and social media accounts of US politicians and celebrities between October 2012 and January 2014, including former Secretary of State Colin Powell and the family of former presidents George W. and George H.W. Bush.
Then there was Trump’s promise that he would be “looking into that” when he was asked if the United States should recognize Crimea as Russian territory.
Tensions with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation also have been heightened with Russia’s increased military activity in Eastern Europe and NATO’s reinforcement of troops in the region. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Trump’s statement was “breathtaking” whether he was joking or not.
In the same press conference, given in Florida on Wednesday, Trump said, “I never met Putin, I don’t know who Putin is”. And that’s under the Obama’s administration with his strong ties to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
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Who knows who it is?”They have no idea if it’s Russian Federation, if it’s China, if it’s somebody else”, he said in an interview aired Thursday on “Fox and Friends”.
