Trump Calls on Russia to Hack Into Hillary’s Missing Emails

Referring to emails Hillary Clinton deleted from her private server, Trump said, “Russia, if your listening, I hope your’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”.

“Of course, I’m being sarcastic”, Trump told Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade in an interview recorded after his press conference. “Who knows who it is…But you have 33,000 emails deleted and the real problem is what was said on those emails from the Democratic National Committee”, Trump remarked. Here’s what he actually said: “If Russia or China or any other country has those emails, I’ve got to be honest with you I’d love to see them”.

The Democratic Party chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, resigned on Sunday after the leaked emails showed party leaders favouring Clinton over her rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, for the presidential nomination.

And Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan said bluntly: “Russia is a global menace led by a devious thug”.

In a statement released within an hour of Trump’s comments, his vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence said there would be “serious consequences” if the Federal Bureau of Investigation could prove Russian Federation was attempting to interfere with the election. US officials and top researchers believe that Russia is behind the hack, and conducted it to tip the USA presidential election in Trump’s favor-since Trump is a yuge fan of Vladimir Putin, has a 30-year business history with Russia including a stable of moneyed Russian investors, and his campaign aides (and surrogates) harbor direct links to the Kremlin.

The flap over Clinton’s emails came after Obama identified Russian Federation as nearly certainly responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee in a different case.

The parallels between Watergate and the criminal conduct that Trump seems to suggest is disturbing and frightening – disturbing because that very conduct forced Nixon from office in shame and disgrace, frightening because Trump as a presidential candidate receives routine national security briefings.

Could Trump be charged with treason by appearing to encourage a foreign power to hack into a former secretary of state’s emails?

“What [the DNC] said in those emails is a disgrace and they’re just trying to deflect from that”, he said on Fox & Friends.

“I said he’s a better leader than Obama”. “These people you have to understand, once they’re in power, they don’t go away”, he said, showing photo of Trump alongside Putin, Hussein, and Jong Un. “We practically don’t get along with too many”, he insisted. First, it redirected the media spotlight from the Democrats joyful celebrations of Hillary’s coronation to outrage over Trump’s audacious comments.

Trump’s suggestion that he might abandon NATO’s pledge to automatically defend all member states is also likely to have gone down well in Moscow, where the Western military alliance is cast as an outdated Cold War relic. It could be someone sitting in his bedroom.

In fact, US officials and cybersecurity experts are almost positive that Russian Federation was behind the attack, according to NBC News. “Nobody knows if it’s Russian Federation”.

“Attention all hackers: You are hacking everything else so please hack Obama’s college records (destroyed?) and check ‘place of birth, ‘” Trump wrote. But crazier than the obvious rigging of the Dem primary is the conspiracy theory being floated now that Trump and Putin arranged for the leak.