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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nope, he’s just trolling the vicious lying ‘Rats and MSM, very successfully.
I was a wrong, 3d chess move by Trump.
I was a wrong.
The reason I think you are wrong here is because Trump is not a gentleman Republican. Have you yet seen the press win with him? He just doubles down and ends up putting labels on people and organizations that end up sticking because like the dems are masters at, it is how many times you repeat something that make it truth to he American people.
Trump has a multitude of ways to play this. The media are pretty predictably dumb.
Think for a moment. Russia has much to gain IF The Bear can find a way to ally itself with the Bald Eagle for a long term alliance both could gain.
One thing we have in common, both countries are on the Muslim Infidel List. We need to work out the former Eastern Europe.
Despite what NYT claims, The Donald is not soliciting the Russians to hack into Herself’s personal server, partly because no relevant information would be obtained now, but mostly because the Russians had already long ago extracted just about every bit of relevant information that could be retrieved, and it is already in their possession.
And since the Russians already have them, would they please share them with our press?
Czarist Russia and the US had cordial relations. How else could the Russians have agreed to sell Alaska to us?
“I have to wonder what Joe McCarthy would have thought of Trump.”
Would give him a standing ovation, no doubt.
IMPLIED in Trump’s statement is “Since Hillary’s too inept, and none of our other agencies can do it... I invite you to shame them all.”
THAT would be a thing of beauty and a delight to behold.
You don’t get the “all Trump all the time” meme.
Really, how is that since the FBI now has the server and there is no access to it and everything is wiped clean? If the Russians have Clinton's emails it means they got them while under her control and not at the behest of Trump...TODAY! How stupid do they think we are?
Trump was sarcastic when he said.
He states he doesn’t think its Russia, then goes on to say that if Russia does have the deleted emails he would love to see them. He also says that Putin would be rewarded greatly by our press.
So he calls out the press, the FBI, the NSA, the DNC, and the Clinton campaign. He also steals the press cycle over the DNC convention and Bill Clinton’s speech.
Additionally, he has two more rallies today and a Reddit AMA to respond. It’s going to be epic.
How is this a “Big Blunder”?
Not a big blunder, it's an ambush being set.
Next time Trump is on a televised interview some talking head will challenge Trump using the Democrat talking points regarding his call for Vladimir Putin to hack Hillary and the Democrats and damage national security or whatever.
The press can't help themselves.
Trump, given the in by the reporter , will clarify what he said, bash the media for lying and being propaganda tools for Hillary (with examples of Hillary- media collusion from the hacked DNC emails) and then go on to detail corruption of the rigged system exposed by the emails and how Hillary, the Obama Administration and the Democrats have been running schemes and scams and coveups to hide those schemes and scams from the American peopled
Hillary Clinton will soon feel like the Iraqi Republican Guard during Operation Desert Storm.
“He will get 52-55 percent of the vote.”
Bull, it’ll be a landslide and he’ll win “blue” states like NY. This guy’s gonna put demographics in play that the GOP hasn’t seen in decades.
For starters, sadly, there’ll be more terrorist attacks while the US and Europe keep dithering. Trump’s made everything possible and he’s going after all the marbles: blacks, gays, Hispanics, whatever.
No, silly twit. This is not the first time a US politician tried to enlist an enemy nation to destroy a political enemy. Kennedy did it in 1984. The only difference is Kennedy actually did it. Trump is simply blowing his trumpet.
Trump is basically mocking Hillary’s treason putting our nation at risk with her emails and mocking their attempts to make this about Russia.
But Trump should not look like he asking for the help of a foreign government, especially Russia’s.
He’s not. He’s brilliantly mocking the MSM/RINOCucks.
I have to wonder what Joe McCarthy would have thought of Trump.
He would have voted for Trump.
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