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To gauge the opportunism and hypocrisy that define Donald Trump's Republican Party, consider this: Imagine the scalding rhetoric that would have boiled from the likes of Newt Gingrich, that Metternich of many green rooms, if Hillary Clinton had offhandedly undermined the collective security architecture of U.S. foreign policy since NATO was created in 1949. Vladimir Putin's regime is saturating Europe with anti-Americanism, buying print and broadcast media, pliable journalists and other opinion leaders, and funding fringe political parties, think tanks and cultural institutions.
For many decades, Russian intelligence agencies have used what they call “active measures” to destabilize their rivals. Now they seem to be turning those tools on the U.S. political system, though in the process they appear to have violated Rule No.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., implausibly - and contradictorily - insists that he agrees more than he disagrees with Donald Trump, and besides can stop the long list of nutty stuff Trump wants to do. In fact, the two differ on entitlement reform, trade, immigration, Russia, NATO and much more.
To gauge the opportunism and hypocrisy that define Donald Trump's Republican Party, consider this: Imagine the scalding rhetoric that would have boiled from the likes of Newt Gingrich, that Metternich of many green rooms, if Hillary Clinton had offhandedly undermined the collective security architecture of U.S. foreign policy since NATO was created in 1949. Vladimir Putin's regime is saturating Europe with anti-Americanism, buying print and broadcast media, pliable journalists and other opinion leaders, and funding fringe political parties, think tanks and cultural institutions.
In offhand remarks and abrupt zingers, Donald Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and seemed to dismiss the importance of NATO. All of this has jolted the world, not to mention the U.S. presidential campaign.
Donald Trump said Wednesday that, if he is elected president, he would consider recognizing Crimea as Russian territory and lifting the sanctions against Russia. At a wide-ranging news conference, Trump said he "would be looking into that" when asked about his stance on Crimea and Russia.
Trump tells Fox News Channel in an interview broadcast Thursday that "I guess I take it a little bit personally, but you can't let it get you down." The billionaire real estate mogul was interviewed following a campaign appearance Wednesday evening in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump - I can't believe I wrote those words - gave a news conference Wednesday. Shall we first count the outrages or the lies? I think we need to start at the top of the outrage column.
In this Friday, July 22, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally in Entertainment Hall at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa. President Obama is joining Clinton's lineup of high-powered validators from the stage Wednesday night, July 27, 2016, to make the case for electing her in November.
Experts who've followed the leak of Democrat... WASHINGTON - Russia may have been behind the leak of hacked Democratic National Committee documents, President Barack Obama said Tuesday in his first public comments on the breach. Obama, who traditionally avoids commenting on active FBI investigations, broke with that protocol and noted that outside experts have blamed Russia for the leak.
A Russian presidential spokesman on Tuesday accused U.S. politicians of being paranoid after Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign blamed Russia for an email hack and suggested the goal was to help Republican Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race. Hacked emails posted by Wikileaks Friday suggested the Democratic National Committee was favoring Clinton over her primary rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Republican nominee Donald Trump said on Monday that if elected U.S. president he would weigh an alliance with Russia against Islamic State militants but rejected any suggestion Russian President Vladimir Putin might be trying to help him win. Speaking at a rally in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Trump dismissed any suggestion that Putin's intelligence services might have had a hand in hacking the Democratic National Committee's email system.
The first day of the Democratic convention included an FBI investigation, senior party figures getting booed and fears of a Russian plot to defeat Hillary Clinton. If indeed Vladimir Putin's Kremlin intended to sow chaos in this U.S. presidential campaign, that mission was surely accomplished Monday.
Hillary Clinton's campaign manager on Sunday suggested that the hacking of Democrat National Committee emails was done by the Russians to help elect Donald Trump president. "I think the DNC needs to get to the bottom of the facts and then take appropriate action on any of these emails," Robby Mook told ABC's "This Week."
Is Putin trying to 'weaponize' Wikileaks to get Trump into the White House? Clinton campaign claims hackers linked to Russian government leaked DNC emails Clinton's campaign says the move comes after Trump showed last week a pro-Russian stance regarding dealing with NATO allies Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook on Sunday laid the blame at Vladimir Putin's doorsteps for the trove of some 19,252 emails leaked from the Democratic National Committee. 'What's disturbing to us is that experts are telling us is Russian state actors broke into the DNC, stole these emails and other experts are now saying that the Russians are releasing these emails for the purpose of actually helping Donald Trump,' Mook said on CNN 's 'State of the Union.'
Hillary Clinton's campaign manager Robby Mook said Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was pushing for a "pro-Russian" platform and cited experts who say that Russian state actors were behind the recent leak of Democratic National Committee emails in an attempt to help Trump win. "Experts are telling us that Russian state actors broke into the DNC, took all these emails, and now are leaking them out through these websites," Mook told ABC's This Week on Sunday.
In a rare moment of levity, Jake Tapper recalls DrA1 4mpenfA1 4hrer's summary of his RNC performance as 'It was the Trump of times, it was the Trump of times,' a subtle dig at the narcissism we've grown so accustomed to, during this campaign. On Zakaria's GPS , also on CNN, Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens said that the address made him feel like he was watching a Monty Python sketch of the Nuremberg Rally.
So far, so good. Boris Johnson, the face of the "Out" side in last month's Brexit referendum and now Britain's new Foreign Secretary, got through his first encounter with the 27 other foreign ministers of European Union countries on Monday without insulting anybody.