Donald Trump has recovered from many missteps, but he’s just made one that, I think, is fatal. I refer, of course, to his call that Russia should get hold of Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails and give them to the United States press. See below:
This is, of course, a call for either espionage or the handing over of material obtained already by espionage. And it’s unprecedented.
Now Trump, clueless and ignorant as he is, may be conflating Clinton’s personal-server emails with the Democratic National Committee emails released by Wikileaks, which were probably obtained by Russian hackers and perhaps by Russian government hackers. As his erstwhile ghostwriter says, Trump has zero attention span and may simply be confused.
Regardless, this is an extraordinarily stupid thing to say, and of course the Democrats will make bales of hay out of it tonight. Even Mike Pence, Trump’s vice-presidential pick, said that releasing illegally obtained emails…
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