Posted on 07/27/2016 9:38:31 AM PDT by reaganaut1
DORAL, Fla. — Donald J. Trump said Wednesday that he hoped Russia had hacked Hillary Clinton’s email, essentially sanctioning a foreign power’s cyberspying of a secretary of state’s correspondence.
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Mr. Trump said, staring directly into the cameras. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
Mr. Trump’s call was an extraordinary moment at a time when Russia is being accused of meddling in the U.S. presidential election. His comments came amid questions about the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s computer servers, which researchers have concluded was likely the work of two Russian intelligence agencies.
Later in the news conference, when asked if he was really urging a foreign nation to hack into the private email server of Mrs. Clinton, or at least meddle in the nation’s elections, he dismissed the question. “That’s up to the president,” Mr. Trump said, before finally telling the female questioner to “be quiet — let the president talk to them.”
The Clinton campaign immediately accused Mr. Trump of both encouraging Russian espionage against the United States and meddling in domestic politics.
“This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent,” said Jake Sullivan, Mrs. Clinton’s chief foreign policy adviser. “This has gone from being a mattter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue.”
Mr. Trump has largely dismissed assertions that Russia was behind the Democratic committee breach as conspiracy theories — a view he reiterated again when he said the hack “is probably not Russia.”
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Spot on!
Funny how the FBI jumped on the DNC email hack so quickly. It is almost as if the leftists care more about protecting The Party than The USA... /sarc
Yeah, sure it is, mhmm, whatever.
I would take it with a grain of salt.
And while they’re at it, they can try to find Obama’s Birth Certificate.
You better start playing hardball with these democrat party enemy combatants or they're going to get us all killed. Relax and enjoy the show. This is a Movement that is not for the faint of heart - MASTERFUL PRESSER TODAY FROM TRUMP - IMPECCABLE TIMING
If you didn’t watch the speech you wouldn’t get the nuance.
This is not a blunder.
Now that's a mistake. She should have kept silent for the sympathy vote. Instead she legitimizes the issue.
How so? Oh, welcome to FR.
I see, so it’s a problem that Trump wants Putin to find Hillary’s missing emails, but it isn’t a problem that Hillary’s emails are missing or in such a state that the Russians would be capable of finding them?
Beyond that, I will emphatically state with a 100% level of confidence that Russia neither needs, or would wait for, an invitation to spy on American politicians of either party. They do it as a matter of policy and standard operating procedures. Hillary just made it so easy for them to do so, as did the DNC.
Accepting one word from the NYT is the equivalent of beating your self over the head. Nothing that rag says has any merit.
But Hillary your dumbass emails have already been accessed and taken. Hillary and the media are idiots. You're not dealing with Bush here.
No, he steals the news cycle during the Dem convention, and it costs him nothing. It keep the emails story front and center.
Wait, when we were technically still British subjects didn’t we seek aid from France, Holland, and Spain?
Bullshit. You are dead Wrong. Every time some talking head echoes your incorrect thoughts, Trump’s poll numbers go up.
That would be ironic.
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