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Donald Trump Calls on Russia to Find Hillary Clinton’s Missing Emails
Topic Started: Jul 27 2016, 01:27 PM (126 Views)
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Donald J. Trump said Wednesday that he hoped Russia had hacked Hillary Clinton’s email, essentially encouraging an adversarial foreign power’s cyberspying on 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,” Donald J. Trump said, referring to messages deemed personal by Hillary Clinton and deleted from her private email server. It was an extraordinary encouragement of a foreign power’s cyberespionage, with Russia already accused of meddling in the election.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-clinton-emails.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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The Republican Party’s presidential candidate wants a rival foreign power to compromise our national security because it will help him politically. Even if you’re inclined to believe that Hillary Clinton’s unseen emails from her stint at the State Department contain unspeakable political horrors and should face public scrutiny, your desire to see them should stop short of wishing for an act of foreign espionage. That’s especially true of a would-be president of the United States, whose job it would be to prevent precisely the sort of security violation that Trump just requested the Russians commit.

In one breath, he says that cyberespionage committed by the Russians shows intolerable disrespect, and in the very next breath he becomes a cheerleader for Russian cyberespionage. Trump just turned himself into the chief advocate for international disrespect of the United States. What a day for the party of American Exceptionalism.
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