Trump says 'of course I'm being sarcastic' with comment about Russian hackers

Daily Mail UK ^ | July 28, 2016 | David Martosko

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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.'

[GreenHornet]

Rudy Giuliani has hit on a very important point here. Democrats have been adamant all along that the Russians never hacked Hillary’s private email server. They have also defended her contention that there was nothing on those 33,000 emails except discussions about Chelsea’s wedding, yoga classes, and her mother’s funeral. If that’s true, then what are the Democrats worried about? According to them, the server was never hacked, and there was noting related to national security on the deleted emails. Why, then, are they so afraid those emails may turn up after all?

[stanne]

Mark Levin was att King Trump for collaborating with the enemy and inciting subversion inviting Iran and Syria to hack our security

[Jane Long]

Mark Levin is one of the leaders of the anti-Trump, cuckservative/OpenBordersRINO’s group. He’s become an embarrassing patsy for the globalist cabal, along with cRuz, Beck, Lee, FioRINO, Erickson, Cuccinelli and others.

[volunbeer]

Levin is blinded by his hatred of Trump. I can’t listen to him any more. Sad, because he was probably my favorite, but I am done with him. No more Levin for me.

I share some of his concerns about Trump, but his radio show has turned into something that unintentionally appears to have one goal - elect Hillary.

[aumrl]

anti Trump?
I didn’t say that
You did

[Kickass Conservative]

I hear Russians are all of a sudden into Yoga and planning big Weddings.

[Cboldt]

-- Why, then, are they so afraid those emails may turn up after all? --

That's yet another question! But what I find entertaining and humorous is that the first reaction out of Camp Hillary was to claim these 30,000 emails contain state secrets, and Trump was calling for the Russians to hack into them.

This claim coming a fairly short time after the same crew claimed that nothing on the 30,000 emails was important, all personal trivia.

And the press ran with the new claim, hard - against their client's (Hillary) interest! They thought they were sticking Trump with a tar-baby. Too funny.

I think by tomorrow the press will reach the "we never said that" / "never mind" stage on this subject. Could be wrong - they might make it an issue for the Sunday idiot shows.

[Kickass Conservative]

Right after that, he also said the Press would appreciate it, or something to the effect.

It was clearly a swipe at Clinton and the Press in the room.

All those Reporters kept bringing it up like the Russian really did Hack the DNC Emails rather than the reality that it was just a moronic accusation made by Hillary’s Campaign guy.

[arl295]

So the Russians need to build a time machine and go back in time and hack the server that the liberal media claims that Donald Trump gave them permission to do.

Putin better start putting together that Time Machine so he can go back in time and hack that server

[RummyChick]

You implied it when you said most of what Trump says makes me cringe.

Get over yourself. You don’t have a clue.

[RummyChick]

Well, look at the theory about what a Spy Plane had to have an emergency landing in Putin territory.

We will see if the leaks stop.

[ohioman]

You are wrong on this. Trump plays the media and Democrat scum like a fiddle. This will be the 10th time that they have stated that he is finished. Understand, he will never back down.

[Dahoser]

For downstate New Yorkers, it's a tossup whether our first language is English or sarcasm. Regardless, though, it eventually becomes our preferred method of communicating so people better get used to four years of this because Trump isn't going to be putting air quotes or a sarcasm tag on what he says.

Like a lot of sarcasm, it brilliantly skewered its targets nailing the FBI, the DNC and the media in one swoop, and sending at least the DNC and media scurrying in all directions. Most likely the FBI was spinning around as well, but they were just quiet about it.

[chris37]

Could you please grow some stones?

[originalbuckeye]

Nah, they just have their DNC Talking Points.........

[thinden]

"Like a lot of sarcasm, it brilliantly skewered its targets nailing the FBI, the DNC and the media in one swoop, and sending at least the DNC and media scurrying in all directions. Most likely the FBI was spinning around as well, but they were just quiet about it."

yes, exactly, biotch slapped the media sitting right in front of him with their own bias & incompetence & it went right over their heads.

[LTC.Ret]

It would be IMPOSSIBLE for Russia to “hack” for those emails because:

1) The hack occurred a long time ago, and

2) Her server doesn’t even exist anymore so there is nothing to hack!!!

Attention all Liberals-Progressives-Democrats, please form one line and step into reality . . .

[Graybeard58]

Yeah, he should hit back about her now saying her emails are a national security risk

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The rats fell for it hook, line and sinker, admitting those emails deleted by Hillary were indeed national security related.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.

[Kommodor]

Pity he didn’t make the connection of “All Nixon did was lose a lousy 15 minutes of tape and look what happened to him... Thirty thousand emails, on the other hand...”

Or something like that.

[tophat9000]

You miss my point..

How can you ever fight and win if you’re afraid if you shoot an arrow they might use it to shoot back at you?

Wringing your hands over there shooting back and ignoring the damage his first shot did will get you nowhere

You only see the blood they draw on Trump...not the blood Trump drew from them

That because you belive the msm spin... that Trumps charge against Hillary is nothing Trump and Hillary counter charges everything

If you actually think about it what ammo did Trump give them?.. (you can’t hack what does it exist so it wasn’t a request for a hack that’s the msm lie spin ) it’s there lying about what he said that is only giving it making a ammo