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Were Donald Trump's statements concerning Russia and Hillary Clinton's emails?

Asked by Strauss (23624points) July 27th, 2016 from iPhone

According to this (possibly not unbiased) report, Republican candidate Donald Trump encouraged Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton’s emails. Do you think he crossed a line into treasonous territory

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zenvelo's avatar

Treasonous? No.

Stupid and anti-American? Yes.

All part of his budding relationship with Putin? Yep.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

“The Donald” may know several Russians on a first name basis from business relationships. So maybe he just calling is a favor.

filmfann's avatar

Treasonous? Probably not, but very, very illegal.

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LostInParadise's avatar

Definitely a stupid thing to say, but Trump could defend himself by saying he was just joking and trying to call attention to Clinton’s email problem. If he previously actually did encourage Putin to hack into the emails, that would definitely be illegal but not treasonous.

I don’t think Reagan would have approved. To what extent are Trump’s supporters okay with his support of Putin?

Pandora's avatar

Treasonous no. But he is asking another Nation to interfere with our political process and he is basically telling the world that he would believe anything that Russia would send us, because, after all there is no way to change emails that are hacked .
I would say he is a moron but I actual think he doesn’t do or say anything by mistake.
Right now he has everyone’s attention back on him and off the Democratic convention. He knows in a few days he can override this with another idiotic statement.

flo's avatar

What would it take to make an act treasonous?
Putin’s Russia and the West are enemies even if they’re all anti the terrorist groups.

stanleybmanly's avatar

If running your mouth were criminal, Trump would have been tried and executed decades ago. Considering the sheer volume of nonsense passing between his teeth, it would be nearly impossible to convict him of treason based on what he says.

SquirrelEStuff's avatar

Where is the NSA in all of this? Shouldn’t they have all the records?

MrGrimm888's avatar

Nothing would surprise me….

Dutchess_III's avatar

The Trump camp has become expert on ‘Divide and Conquer.’

Jaxk's avatar

This whole uproar is ridiculous. Hillary’s server no longer exists. It was wiped clean to the extent that even the FBI couldn’t recover the emails. How could Trump be asking anyone to hack into a server that doesn’t exist. Not to mention that if anyone has those emails and Hillary is telling the truth, all they’d have is 33,000 of Hillary’s yoga lessons.

Buttonstc's avatar

Treasonous, no. Showboating yes. Stupid, definitely.

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