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| Democratic convention live: Donald Trump calls on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails | Democratic convention live: Donald Trump calls on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails |
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| David Smith | |
| Chelsea Clinton has launched an impassioned attack on Republicans who support conversion therapy for gay and lesbian people, describing it as tantamount to “child abuse”. | |
| Bill and Hillary Clinton’s daughter, now 36, told LGBTQ Democrats in Philadelphia that she feels this is the most important election in her lifetime, in part because it is the first in which she will vote as a mother. | |
| “Everything I care most about is at risk in this election,” she said, citing last week’s Republican national convention in Cleveland. “I’ve thought about what I found most offensive last week. It’s hard to pick just one. The Republican rhetoric which was divisive, degrading, demeaning, or the Republican party platform that was the anthesis to all that Chad [Griffin of the Human Rights Campaign] has celebrated for us as Democrats here. It was the most regressive, least inclusive platform in modern political history. | |
| “But I think what I actually found most offensive really again ties to me as a mom. The open embrace of conversion therapy in the Republican party platform – in other words, child abuse – to me is the clarion call for all us to do everything we can to elect my mom but also to elect Democrats up and down the ticket.” | |
| Clinton, who will speak on behalf of her mother at the convention on Thursday, added: “We need to ensure we are electing people who reflect our values so that my mom can finally pass the Equality Act, so that my mom can finally federally ban conversion therapy, my mom can restore the military records of everyone who has served their country.” | |
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| Admiral: Donald Trump's comments on Russia 'shocking and dangerous' | |
| Retired US Navy admiral James Stavridis, a former supreme allied commander of Nato who plans to speak at the Democratic national convention tonight, told the Guardian’s Spencer Ackerman that Donald Trump’s comments regarding Russian hacking of DNC emails are “shocking and dangerous” and will undermine American efforts abroad. | |
| “These comments are shocking and dangerous,” Stavridis said. “In addition to the obvious domestic political implications of essentially inviting interference in our election, they will further undermine European confidence in the reliability of the US as an ally - particularly in the face of Russian adventurism.” | |
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| The Trump campaign’s senior communications adviser, Jason Miller, has declared on Twitter that the candidate “did not call on, or invite, Russia or anyone else to hack Hillary Clinton’s e-mails today,” despite widely recorded and disseminated comments made by the candidate at a morning press conference that stated exactly that. | |
| 3/7 To be clear, Mr. Trump did not call on, or invite, Russia or anyone else to hack Hillary Clinton’s e-mails today. | |
| 4/7 Trump was clearly saying that if Russia or others have Clinton’s 33,000 illegally deleted emails, they should share them w/ FBI immed. | |
| Trump, speaking at a press conference in Florida this morning, incited Russia to hack into and release Hillary Clinton’s emails from the personal server she used whilst she was secretary of state. | |
| “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing,” Trump said. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let’s see if that happens. That will be next.” | |
| The Republican nominee added: “They probably have her 33,000 e-mails that she lost and deleted ... I hope they do ... because you’d see some beauties there.” | |
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| Florida senator Marco Rubio floated the possibility that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will learn on the job once he is elected president in a radio interview today, saying that it was his “sense” that the Senate will act to curb his most kneejerk impulses. | |
| “I view the Senate as a place that can always act as a check and balance on whoever the next president is,” Rubio told WGN Radio. “I also think there’s something to be said for - once you’re actually in that position, once you’re actually working at this thing, and you’re in there, and you start to have access to information that perhaps you didn’t have before, especially for someone that’s never been in politics - I think it starts to impact your views a little bit.” | |
| “That’s my sense of it, as he settles into this role as the nominee and ultimately the president, access to these issues is going to begin to, in some ways, kind of shape some of the policy positions given reality versus perhaps what you might read about on a blog somewhere” Rubio continued. | |
| “So I think that’s gonna be a real factor.” | |
| During the Republican primary, Rubio called Trump “an embarrassment” to the Republican party and vowed that they would pay for his nomination in November. | |
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| As delegates mingle in downtown Philadelphia, four miles north a “shanty town” called Clintonville has been set up by activists in protest against the Democratic National Convention. | |
| The community is set up on an empty plot of land in Kensington, a working class neighborhood heavily impacted by de-industrialisation in the middle of the last century. Clintonville was organised by local activist Cheri Honkala. | |
| “The focus this week is on Hillary becoming the first woman as the candidate, and I’m supposed to be happy that there’s a first woman president but Hillary doesn’t represent any of the women I know,” Honkala said. | |
| “[Because of] her policies around the poor, and the fact that women and children have been killed as a direct result of Hillary.” | |
| Honkala said Clintonville was based on the Hoovervilles of the 1930s – shanty towns built during the Great Depression – and was also protest against “$60m being spent on a convention and parties and $43m on security”. | |
| Ahead of the convention activists had promised Clintonville would be a “tent city”, buton Wednesday it appeared that the turnout had been disappointing. There were six tents – seven including a tipi – and three buses at the site. | |
| Interestingly, there is actually a town called Clintonville in Pennsylvania. It is situated in the north-west of the state and had a population of 528 as of the 2000 census. The median income is $22,083. | |
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| In non-hacking news, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager told a group of reporters at a lunch sponsored by the Wall Street Journal that they campaign is more than happy with Donald Trump’s stated plan to win over traditionally blue states. | |
| “I absolutely encourage Donald Trump to spend time campaigning in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey,” Robby Mook told reporters, according to the Hill. | |
| “I wholeheartedly endorse that strategy,” Mook continued. “I would be happy to support him if he wants itineraries or schedules. I will have staffers at his disposal to assist him campaigning in those markets.” | |
| Trump has vowed to be competitive in traditionally left-leaning states, including California, Pennsylvania and his home state of New York. | |
| 7.09pm BST | 7.09pm BST |
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| Donald Trump’s suggestion that Russia hack Hillary Clinton’s email servers is not the first time he’s pushed for digital vigilantes to sabotage his political opponents: | Donald Trump’s suggestion that Russia hack Hillary Clinton’s email servers is not the first time he’s pushed for digital vigilantes to sabotage his political opponents: |
| Attention all hackers: You are hacking everything else so please hack Obama's college records (destroyed?) and check "place of birth" | Attention all hackers: You are hacking everything else so please hack Obama's college records (destroyed?) and check "place of birth" |
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| The Guardian’s Dan Roberts and Sabrina Siddiqui have more on Donald Trump’s assertions that the Russian government should hack into opponent Hillary Clinton’s email servers to release her private communications: | The Guardian’s Dan Roberts and Sabrina Siddiqui have more on Donald Trump’s assertions that the Russian government should hack into opponent Hillary Clinton’s email servers to release her private communications: |
| Asked if he would handle Putin as a friend or an adversary, Trump said he would treat the Russian president “firmly” but expressed a desire to improve relations. | Asked if he would handle Putin as a friend or an adversary, Trump said he would treat the Russian president “firmly” but expressed a desire to improve relations. |
| “There’s nothing I can think of that I’d rather do than have Russia friendly, as opposed to the way we are now, so we can go and knock out Isis together with other people and with other countries. Wouldn’t it be nice if we actually got along with people?” | “There’s nothing I can think of that I’d rather do than have Russia friendly, as opposed to the way we are now, so we can go and knock out Isis together with other people and with other countries. Wouldn’t it be nice if we actually got along with people?” |
| Trump, who has faced questions about whether his business empire has been supported by funding from wealthy Russians also claimed he could not release his tax returns because they were under audit. | Trump, who has faced questions about whether his business empire has been supported by funding from wealthy Russians also claimed he could not release his tax returns because they were under audit. |
| “I’ll release them when the order is completed,” he said, while insisting there was no evidence to support claims of his ties to Russia. | “I’ll release them when the order is completed,” he said, while insisting there was no evidence to support claims of his ties to Russia. |
| “But zero, I can tell you right now. I have nothing to do with Russia.” | “But zero, I can tell you right now. I have nothing to do with Russia.” |
| Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort, asked directly whether Trump denied having any financial links to Russian oligarchs, said: “That’s what he said – that’s what I said – that’s, that’s obviously what our position is.” | Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort, asked directly whether Trump denied having any financial links to Russian oligarchs, said: “That’s what he said – that’s what I said – that’s, that’s obviously what our position is.” |
| As news of Trump’s apparent incitement reached the Clinton camp, Sullivan issued a statement denouncing his remarks, adding: “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. That’s not hyperbole, those are just the facts. This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue.” | As news of Trump’s apparent incitement reached the Clinton camp, Sullivan issued a statement denouncing his remarks, adding: “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. That’s not hyperbole, those are just the facts. This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue.” |
| Related: Trump to Russia: hack Hillary Clinton's 'missing' emails and publish them | Related: Trump to Russia: hack Hillary Clinton's 'missing' emails and publish them |
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| John Kasich is trying to split the difference between Donald Trump’s comments on Russian state-sponsored hacking and Hillary Clinton’s email servers: | John Kasich is trying to split the difference between Donald Trump’s comments on Russian state-sponsored hacking and Hillary Clinton’s email servers: |
| .@hillaryclinton put our security at risk, but Putin is not our friend; foreign meddling in US elections cannot be tolerated. | .@hillaryclinton put our security at risk, but Putin is not our friend; foreign meddling in US elections cannot be tolerated. |
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| Video: The Republican nominee said allegations of Russia hacking the Democratic National Committee emails to help him are “ridiculous” at a press conference Wednesday morning. Referring to Hillary Clinton’s emails that underwent a federal investigation, Trump said: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.” | Video: The Republican nominee said allegations of Russia hacking the Democratic National Committee emails to help him are “ridiculous” at a press conference Wednesday morning. Referring to Hillary Clinton’s emails that underwent a federal investigation, Trump said: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.” |
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| After Donald Trump’s comments at his press conference today, Hillary for America senior policy advisor Jake Sullivan following statement: | After Donald Trump’s comments at his press conference today, Hillary for America senior policy advisor Jake Sullivan following statement: |
| “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. That’s not hyperbole, those are just the facts. This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue.” | “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. That’s not hyperbole, those are just the facts. This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue.” |