During a news conference in Florida today , Donald J. Trump — a serviceman who is run for what is arguably the most powerful chore in the world — challenged Russia to chop into opponent Hillary Clinton ’s e-mail .

“ Russia , if you ’re listen , I desire you ’re able to discover the 30,000 emails that are missing , ” Trump said , harmonize to theNew York Times . “ I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our wardrobe . ”

US officialshave say that Russia is most likely responsible for for the recent security rift in which cyber-terrorist accessed a stash of internal e-mail from the Democratic National Convention . WikiLeaks released the trove of document last week .

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.

trump card himselfhas deniedthat he was somehow necessitate in the hack , whichhas been floatedas a possible attack on the 2016 election process itself .

Whether or not the remark was made in jest — a possibility given Trump ’s miserable attempt at wit and something resemble a smirk visible in video recording of the moment — it ’s does n’t quite run into the mark , kick in that he ’s now expressly encouraged a hefty commonwealth with a nut job leader to hack into the email of a US presidential candidate .

If Russia or any other country or somebody has Hillary Clinton ’s 33,000 lawlessly blue-pencil emails , perhaps they should deal them with the FBI !

William Duplessie

— Donald J. Trump ( @realDonaldTrump)July 27 , 2016

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