Donald Trump invites Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton's emails
WASHINGTON _ Donald Trump dared a foreign government to commit espionage on the U.S. to hurt his rival on Wednesday, smashing yet another taboo in American political discourse and behavior.
"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you'll be able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," he said, referring to deleted emails from the private account Hillary Clinton used as secretary of state. "I think you'll probably be rewarded mightily by our press."
Trump made the remarks at a lengthy and unusual news conference in Doral, Fla., in which he also suggested the Geneva Convention treaties protecting prisoners of war are outdated, told a reporter to "be quiet" and said the fact that the Democratic National Committee may have been hacked was because foreign leaders lack respect for the U.S. government.
He also called President Barack Obama "the most ignorant president in our history," alleged that Russian leader Vladimir Putin had disparaged Obama with "the N-word," and inaccurately paraphrased Obama speaking in a stereotype of African-American dialect.
"His views of the world, as he says, 'don't jive,'" Trump said.
_ Tribune Washington Bureau
