Trump walks back email hack comments, but damage

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Source: cnn


Trump walks back email hack comments, but damage lingers


By Stephen Collinson and Tom Kludt, CNN

Updated 2:29 PM ET, Thu July 28


(CNN)Donald Trump said Thursday that he was being sarcastic when he appeared to suggest that Russia should use espionage to find Hillary Clinton's deleted emails.

But he's finding out that presidents -- and by extension, presidential nominees -- don't get that luxury when the topic is national security.

The GOP nominee tried to dampen controversy over his apparent call Wednesday for Russia to either stage an espionage cyber hack to find Clinton's deleted emails or to publish information it had already stolen.

"Of course I'm being sarcastic," Trump said in a Fox News interview that aired the day after his comments at a news conference in Florida sparked a national furor and offered ammunition for Democrats who claim he's not fit to be president................


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/28/politics/donald-trump-russia-hacking-sarcastic/index.html

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We simply can NOT trust this con man!





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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Ok, Don

Why was it something to be sarcastic about?

[nolabear]

2. And here I thought he was taking this whole thing seriously.

[wryter2000]

4. LOL n/t

N/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Just joking is always the right's excuse

when caught saying something stupid,

[SunSeeker]

5. He first backtracked saying he wanted the Russians to give the emails, if they had them, to the FBI.

When that did not work to stem the outrage, he went with the 6th grader's defense: "I was kidding!"

[BLACK4EVER]

8. It matches

because he speaks at his rally to supporters on a third grade reading level and he has said "I love the poorly educated" , so giving a sixth grader's excuse matches the Repub nominee that is Donald tRump to a tee. For someone who brags about his Wharton education and how "smart" he is. He's very smart NOT. Truth be told, even a 12-year could come up with a better excuse than "I was kiddin'"

[leftyladyfrommo]

13. That's exactly what sociopaths do.

If one story doesn't work they simply try another one.

I'm not sure there really is a Donald Trump. He is just an empty sociopathic shell. Not very smart, no empathy, no morals, no conscience. There just anything there.

[MFM008]

6. Why does this dick

Get to get away with this every time.
No consequences for shit stain ever.

[awoke_in_2003]

9. Because we don't have a media

we have an entertainment industry.

[Kathy M]

10. Agree .....

When a real story comes out exposing he will be the showman he is and try to make it convoluted

[Tatiana]

7. Faux Noise doesn't have enough airtime to clean up all his messes. n/t

[Skittles]

11. gawd

how can ANYONE imagine this guy as PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I honestly thought we had hit the bottom of the barrel with Dubya but hoo boy was I ever wrong

[yellowcanine]

12. Har, har. Such a kidder, that trump man.

[meow2u3]

14. Sorry, Treasonous Trump

The Russiagate cat is out of the bag and nothing will stuff kitty back in it.