Trump’s Lies About Ties to Vladimir Putin Exposed on Today Show

Q: Trump says the identity of the hackers is a mystery?

“We knew from the start that the controversial guest would use the visit primarily to demonstrate his influence in an European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member state”, said Jozef Horvat, deputy president of the New Slovenia party. “It’s not for nothing that diplomacy is diplomatic”.

And his offhand invitation for Russian Federation to help unearth the deleted emails from Clinton’s State Department years appeared to violate a cardinal rule against foreign meddling in us politics. “And frankly, they don’t even know if it’s Russian Federation, if it’s China, if it’s someone else”. We begin bombing in five minutes.

As I’ve said, Democrats may be a bit ahead of the intelligence community in their level of confidence that Russian Federation is actively working to elect Trump as president, but there is plenty of circumstantial evidence lending credence to that idea.

Foreign policy experts of all stripes “are left slack-jawed” by Trump’s pronouncements, said Derek Chollet, a senior adviser at the German Marshall Fund and former Pentagon official in the Obama administration.

The invitation by a presidential candidate for a foreign power that’s sometimes hostile toward the United States to insert itself into the country’s election process was so astounding that it was widely denounced.

Asked by Fox if she believed Mr Putin wanted Mr Trump to become president, Ms Clinton said she was not going to assume that was the case. In his most recent outreach to Putin, Trump not only refused to condemn Russia’s military takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula but said, if elected, he would consider recognizing it as Russian territory and lifting sanctions against Moscow.

JACKSON: A Trump aide maintaining the two men have never had a personal relationship, arguing nothing Trump has said publicly contradicts that.

It also all but overshadowed an embarrassing leak of different hacked emails, these from the Democratic National Committee, showing that party staffers supported Clinton over Vermont Sen.

If Trump was being tongue-in-check, a lot of people didn’t get it.

This runs counter to the position of the Obama administration and the European Union, which have imposed punishing sanctions on Russian Federation in response to the annexation. And Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan said bluntly: “Russia is a global menace led by a devious thug”. I said he’s a better leader than Obama, because Obama’s not a leader, so he’s certainly doing a better job than Obama is, and that’s all. Trump seemed to be saying, if anyone did hack into it in the past and still has the e-mails it contained, turn them over. But fast-forward to the past couple of weeks and you get a few clues.

There should, indeed, be “serious consequences” for Russian Federation if it is found responsible for the DNC hack.

Donald Trump has frequently expressed his admiration for Vladimir Putin, an anti-American world-class tyrant. “He mentioned the N-word one time”. “I’m really exhausted of you”.

TRUMP: I spoke indirectly and directly with President Putin, who could not have been nicer.