Jason Miller, Trump's communications adviser, tweeted to say Trump was not calling for Russia to hack Clinton but to hand over emails to the FBI if they had them. Later Tuesday afternoon, Trump’s campaign tried to clarify his statements. Meanwhile, his running mate, Mike Pence, issued a statement with a sharply different tone, noting the FBI was investigating the hack and that if there is evidence that Russia was involved, “I can assure you both parties and the United States government will ensure there are serious consequences.” “If Russia or any other country or person has Hillary Clinton's 33,000 illegally deleted emails, perhaps they should share them with the FBI!,” he tweeted.
Some Trump surrogates suggested his comments were a joke, but the Manhattan mogul immediately doubled down on Twitter. He said one nice thing about me,” Trump said. Trump forcefully rejected any notion that he is linked to Putin, and said the race to attribute blame for the cyberintrusion is a “sideshow” to distract from the contents of the emails, which showed Democratic Party officials privately working to help Clinton despite their public claims of neutrality. Democrats have gone further, drawing a connection between Trump’s friendly comments toward Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and the well-timed leak on the eve of Hillary Clinton’s nomination. officials have accused Moscow of being behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s emails, thousands of which WikiLeaks published on Friday. election, with Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck saying, “Russia is a global menace led by a devious thug.
House Speaker Paul Ryan’s office did not mention Trump, but condemned any role for Russia in the U.S. “I find those kinds of statements to be totally outrageous because you’ve got now a presidential candidate who is, in fact, asking the Russians to engage in American politics,” said former CIA Director Leon Panetta, a Clinton surrogate. This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue." "That’s not hyperbole, those are just the facts.
“This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent,” Hillary for America policy adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement. Trump’s comments set off an immediate uproar from the Clinton campaign, which blasted the remarks as a threat to national security.
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