Posted on 07/28/2016 7:24:16 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Trump says 'of course I'm being sarcastic' with comment about Russian hackers looking for Hillary's emails
Republican nominee insists he was not being serious when he seemed to invite Russia to scour for 33,000 emails Hillary Clinton ordered deleted He had said Wednesday: 'Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing' Trump insisted Thursday that the Democratic Party's other email scandal – 20,000 hacked messages published by WikiLeaks – is the real story 'This is now an issue of national security,' said a breathless Robby Mook, who runs Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign Donald Trump insisted on Thursday that he wasn't being serious when he said a day earlier that he hoped Russian hackers found the more than 33,000 emails Hillary Clinton deleted from her private server.
'Of course I'm being sarcastic,' Trump said in an interview with the 'Fox & Friends' morning show, emphasizing that he had no way of knowing that Russian hackers had scoured Clinton's emails before she began culling them.
And he said the Democratic Party's other email scandal – 20,000 hacked messages published by WikiLeaks – is the real story. 'They have no idea if it's Russia, if it's China, if it's somebody else. Who knows who it is?' 'But you have 33,000 e-mails deleted. And the real problem is what was said on those e-mails from the Democratic National Committee.'
The email breach has proved an embarrassment to the Democratic National Committee, whose chairwoman announced her resignation this week.
The hacked messages 'talk about religion, they talk about race, they talk about all sorts of things, including women,' Trump vented on Thursday.
'What they said on those emails is a disgrace. It's disgraceful. It's disgraceful. They're just trying to deflect from that.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Trump just dumped the whole 30,000 emails right back in the lap of not only the Clinton Campaign, but in the FBI...
To think that Trump and Russia are working together is total ‘tin hat’ thinking...Trump won't lie to you, he said he has never talked to or met Putin, believe that when he says that, he also said he has never had any businesses in Russia and he doesn't, but I did hear last night on a radio program I was listening to where the reporter had to guts to say Trump did...hope that reporter has a ‘cave’ and his last name isn't ‘Weiner’, if you get my drift, he could get ruined for life...
What Trump should do is to suggest that the “hacker” is actually a disgruntled whistle blower Bernie supporter who saw how unfairly Bernie was being treated.
And then repeat that Trump understands and how he knows first hand that the system is rigged.
More plausible theory: it was a disgruntled Bernie supporter to hacked the emails. It was an insider within the Democrat party.
Dead Seth Rich which some say was going to testify in some voter fraud case in Ohio. Haven’t looked into what that is all about
That darn Trump...His using Putin as a pawn...in the DEM game is keeping the emails in the news.
That darn Trump...His using Putin as a pawn...in the DEM game is keeping the emails in the news.
It’s amazing how many reporters have discussed this as “Trump wants Russia to hack Hillary’s emails”, as if Hillary’s emails are still sitting out there on her unsecure server(s).
I thought the FBI had her old server(s). They do, but these nitwits in much of the MSM can’t resist acting as if Trump wants Russia to start hacking her servers today. And only a very few are correcting the obvious stupid reporting. I heard John Bolton point this out, but very few others.
Those emails reveal what the DemocRats REALLY think about the people who vote for them.
Trump needs to realize that the media does not have a sense of humor .... Unless the Liberals say something they deem humorous.
Trump needs to realize that the media does not have a sense of humor .... Unless the Liberals say something they deem humorous.
Agreed. I heard that too. Playing politics: if I were Trump, I wouldn’t say who it was. Best to keep the rank and file DNC gang suspicious of each other. Also, it directs it away from the Russians and squarely at the Democrat party.
Maybe the DNC operative who was shot to death at 3 in the morning on the mean streets of DC?
Could be. Could be anyone. However, most definitely it was someone within the Democrat party. Maybe an IT person or technical guru who knows about computer systems and email.
One of his minions that read this site need to remind Trump of all that have fallen in Hillary’s wake..and start looking at Seth Rich.
This writer is terrible. There are two separate email stories here, and he can’t keep them, or the quotations about them straight.
Hillary’s server and deleted secret emails is the national security issue. This is in the past, and this is, to my understanding, the focus of Trump’s jibe. The sarcasm of the remark is obvious to all but the retarded. It connects to the wiki leaks emails, since the Donks were deflecting that story with tails of investigations into Russian involvement.
So Trump was very witty in attacking the stupid Donk deflection on wiki leaks, while simultaneously attacking the security violations of the Beast.
This writer is as stupid as a Democrat voter.
They say Trump is finished every day
So their track record of predicting a Trump demise has been extremely awful
but morons still listen to these people, I don’t get it
The emails were not on a Government server.
The emails were on a private/personal-use server.
Clinton said the emails were deleted.
Trump mentions the Russians.
Democrats accuse Trump of encouraging espionage.
You can't hack deleted emails.
If the emails were personal, it's not espionage.
He basically made them all admit they were lying when they said there was no classified intel in those emails. If that were true this wouldn’t have blown up!
How does one hack a server that is unplugged, decommissioned, sitting in a storage unit someplace? Plus it has been deleted as well.
Media people are not that bright, or they think their viewers are total morons
You know he is just sitting on the DMC working over Chuck Todd and CNN for being slaves to the DMC. He will play that card in the future.
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