Key Trump campaign aides have major business or political connections with Russia

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Russian roulette with Trump

• The Australian
• July 29, 2016
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Donald Trump has brought neither credit nor credibility to his campaign for the White House with his bizarre appeal to a hostile foreign power — Vladimir Putin’s Russia — to launch an unlawful cyber attack to hack into Hillary Clinton’s private emails.

“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Mr Trump said. This referred to emails deemed personal and deleted before Mrs Clinton turned over another 30,000 to the US State Department from the private server she recklessly used as secretary of state.

The context of Mr Trump’s foolhardy request was speculation overshadowing the Democratic National Convention over what are seen as direct attempts by Mr Putin to meddle in US politics. Throughout his campaign Mr Trump has spoken warmly of Mr Putin. To the Kremlin’s delight he has disparaged NATO. He has given Mr Putin hope a Trump presidency would lift sanctions imposed over Russia’s invasion of Crimea and Ukraine.

As the convention began, the Moscow-leaning WikiLeaks released 20,000 embarrassing internal emails written by Democratic leaders. Barack Obama says US intelligence is convinced Russia hacked them. Mr Trump apparently hopes that if Mr Putin obliges by hacking into Mrs Clinton’s private emails, he will be able to damage her further.

Mr Trump is being extremely unwise. His apologists claim he was joking. But that ignores tweets he sent after his news conference reiterating the request to Mr Putin as well as speculation surrounding his relationship with the Russian leader. Son Donald Trump Jr has disclosed that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our (Trump Corporation) assets”. Key Trump campaign aides have major business or political connections with Russia. There is no justification for Mr Trump to turn to Mr Putin for help to discredit Mrs Clinton. Doing so shows his questionable judgment in foreign affairs and raises serious concerns about how he would conduct himself in the White House.

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Nocookies

 

[tinydancer]

Ok. Blanket statements with no proof of jack shit.

Who are the aides? Who are the businessmen? What law is broken with businessmen doing business in Russia who are associates of Trump?

And the only one I am personally aware of is Paul Manafort who assisted in the election of Yanukovych the Ukrainian President who was overthrown with the US/Western allies/NATO/EU/IMF in an illegal coup in the Ukraine.

 

[Katzndogz]

Putin did not write or fail to secure any emails. Trump didn't. No one in Russia did.

All democrats can say is Waaaa you caught me.

Release the emails.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

Apparently asking Russia to find some emails is a major security issue but loosely allowing the same ones to be found by anyone isn't....

 

[OKTexas]

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Russian roulette with Trump

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• July 29, 2016
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Donald Trump has brought neither credit nor credibility to his campaign for the White House with his bizarre appeal to a hostile foreign power — Vladimir Putin’s Russia — to launch an unlawful cyber attack to hack into Hillary Clinton’s private emails.

“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Mr Trump said. This referred to emails deemed personal and deleted before Mrs Clinton turned over another 30,000 to the US State Department from the private server she recklessly used as secretary of state.

The context of Mr Trump’s foolhardy request was speculation overshadowing the Democratic National Convention over what are seen as direct attempts by Mr Putin to meddle in US politics. Throughout his campaign Mr Trump has spoken warmly of Mr Putin. To the Kremlin’s delight he has disparaged NATO. He has given Mr Putin hope a Trump presidency would lift sanctions imposed over Russia’s invasion of Crimea and Ukraine.

As the convention began, the Moscow-leaning WikiLeaks released 20,000 embarrassing internal emails written by Democratic leaders. Barack Obama says US intelligence is convinced Russia hacked them. Mr Trump apparently hopes that if Mr Putin obliges by hacking into Mrs Clinton’s private emails, he will be able to damage her further.

Mr Trump is being extremely unwise. His apologists claim he was joking. But that ignores tweets he sent after his news conference reiterating the request to Mr Putin as well as speculation surrounding his relationship with the Russian leader. Son Donald Trump Jr has disclosed that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our (Trump Corporation) assets”. Key Trump campaign aides have major business or political connections with Russia. There is no justification for Mr Trump to turn to Mr Putin for help to discredit Mrs Clinton. Doing so shows his questionable judgment in foreign affairs and raises serious concerns about how he would conduct himself in the White House.

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Nocookies

Did any of them give Russia 20% of US uranium reserves? Hint, it was the hildabitch that did that.