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You know even the Trump folks realize he should not have said this when they are in full “he didn’t mean it” mode and Trump is now on twitter himself trying to clarify.But we have the nominee of the party that won the Cold War asking the Russians to commit acts of espionage against the United States in order to help him win the Presidency. That is a pretty big deal. Donald J. Trump said Wednesday that he hoped Russia had hacked Hillary Clinton’s email, essentially sanctioning a foreign power’s cyberspying of 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,” Mr. Trump said, staring directly into the cameras. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”http://theresurgent.com/donald-trump-asks-russia-to-spy-against-the-united-states/
In before the 'he was just joking' excuse.
Which was just now used by Rush Limbaugh.
Where Rush goes off the rails and into the swamp is in his reasoning. Even though it is true that Trump doesn't use email... in fact, we really don't even know if he can write... there is a great deal of evidence that the Russians own Trump in a way they could never hope to own Hillary Clinton. Since his wave of serial bankruptcies beginning in the 1980s, he has been kept afloat by cash from Russian investors. These investors can't be making those investments without the knowledge of Putin and this gives them leverage over Trump in a very real sense. If they pull his financing, virtually overnight he becomes a homeless wino yelling at tourists in Times Square. From a motivation point of view, wouldn't Putin rather have an ideological ally in the White House... that would be Trump who loathes NATO and American power as much as Putin... than someone he had to blackmail for cooperation?
