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From the New York Times a few moments ago.

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.”

 

But at the news conference at one of his Florida golf courses, as the third day of the Democratic National Convention was set to begin in Philadelphia, the Republican presidential nominee refused to unequivocally call on Vladimir V. Putin, Russia’s president, to not meddle in the United States’ presidential election.

 

“I’m not going to tell Putin what to do,” Mr. Trump said. “Why should I tell Putin what to do?”

 

He added that if Russia, or any foreign government, is, in fact, behind the hack, it simply shows just how little respect other nations have for the current administration.

 

“President Trump would be so much better for U.S. relations” than a President Clinton, Mr. Trump said. “I don’t think he respects Clinton.”

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this is the nonsense that Trump is screaming about instead of telling us what he plans to do.

The fact that he will get at least  48% of the popular vote shows how broken the USA is. I doubt that Iraqis would have voted for Saddam or Libyans for Gaddafi, yet here tens of millions of Americans plan to vote for a fascist racist clown.

FM
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seignet posted:

Hail to dem White people. Put ayuh razz in the rite place. Bullyism soon coming to an end. Heil Trump.

Bai Seig, you would be one of the first that Generalismo Trump would throw out of this country. He would call you Laziazz in the process. But, we won't let him. We'll get Hillary elected so Trump can go back to his reality TV shows.

Kari
caribny posted:

this is the nonsense that Trump is screaming about instead of telling us what he plans to do.

The fact that he will get at least  48% of the popular vote shows how broken the USA is. I doubt that Iraqis would have voted for Saddam or Libyans for Gaddafi, yet here tens of millions of Americans plan to vote for a fascist racist clown.

It is statistically impossible for him to get 48%. The most he can hope for on a good day is around 43% If Hillary is to win she must lower that since the green and the libertarians are going to take the middle. 5 to 8 percent.

But, this is not a national affair but a state by state one where from now to november 7th a few crucial ones will determine the outcome. Even though the national count may be close the electoral college can be a wipe out. Hillary has more ways to doing that. 

FM

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