Trump surrounded himself with campaign aides who had long-standing financial ties to Moscow. The candidate echoed Kremlin talking points about NATO and the European Union. Rather than condemning the Russian activity or calling on Russian president Vladimir Putin to stop it, he mocked the threat. “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the thirty thousand emails that are missing,” he said at a news conference in July 2016, referring to emails that Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent, had purged from a private server, saying they were personal communications and not related
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