Trump invites Russian hackers to find Clinton's missing emails
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday invited Russian hackers to find and publish Hillary Clinton's emails.
"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 [Clinton] emails that are missing," Trump said at a press conference. "I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let's see if that happens, that'll be nice."
The remarks came after Clinton's camp said this week that Russian hackers were likely responsible for breaching the computer networks of the Democratic National Committee earlier this year and leaking emails of top officials to Wikileaks for publication.
The hack, which showed top staffers considering leaking negative information about Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, led to chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announcing her resignation.
"Russia has no respect for our country," Trump said at a Wednesday press conference. "And that's why, if it is Russia, nobody even knows it's Russia, it was probably China. ... It shows how weak we are. It shows how disrespected we are."
Trump also slammed the DNC for what is seen as conspiring against Sanders to ensure that Clinton won the Democratic nomination.
"I'm not gonna tell Putin what to do, why should I tell Putin what to do?" Trump said. "[I]t's not even about Russia or China or whoever it is that's doing the hacking. It's about the things they said in those emails. They were terrible things."
He also accused Clinton of being in on the conspiracy.
"Believe me, as sure as you're sitting there, Hillary Clinton knew about it," Trump said. "She knew everything. Debbie Wasserman Schultz could not breathe without speaking and getting approval from Hillary Clinton."