Press. voanews.com
Democratic
presidential contender Hillary Clinton on Sunday accused Republican Donald
Trump of "absolute allegiance" to Russian policy goals, even as he
suggested that if elected he might be willing to accept Moscow's 2014
annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.
In separate
interviews on news shows, the two candidates sparred over how the U.S. should
deal with Russia and President Vladimir Putin.
Clinton, a
former U.S. secretary of state, said on "Fox News Sunday" that
Trump's views about Russia raised "national security issues" and
questions about his temperament as the would-be American commander in chief.
She said that
"Russian intelligence services hacked into" computers at the
Democratic Party national headquarters in Washington, claiming that they
"arranged for a lot of those emails to be released" by WikiLeaks that
showed party leaders favored her over her challenger, Vermont Senator Bernie
Sanders, in the months-long campaign for the Democratic presidential
nomination.
In another
interview Sunday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange declined to say from whom
his open source group received the hacked emails. The U.S. has not publicly
accused Russia of hacking into the Democratic computers, but U.S. computer
experts have said they believe that is what occurred.
WikiLeaks
released more than 19,000 emails written by Democratic leaders a week ago, as
Democrats headed to their national convention that acclaimed Clinton as the
party's 2016 presidential nominee, the first woman to be the standard bearer of
a major U.S. political party.
"Donald
Trump has shown a very troubling willingness to back up Putin, to support
Putin," Clinton said. Trump, in an interview with ABC News, said he has
"no relationship" with Putin and has never met with him or spoken
with him by phone. But Trump, a real estate tycoon seeking his first elected
office, said, "If our country got along with Russia, that would be a great
thing."
He suggested
that Crimeans would rather be part of Russia, a stance at odds with U.S.
policy. President Barack Obama imposed economic sanctions against Moscow that
are still place in the aftermath of Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian
territory.
While the
Democratic national convention was going on last week, Trump called for Russia
to hack into Clinton's computer to find 33,000 emails she deleted after serving
as the country's top diplomat from 2009 to 2013. During that time she used an unsecured
private email server, rather than a more secure government email server.
A day later,
Trump said he was being "sarcastic" in making the suggestion.
Clinton, who has
for months acknowledged that the use of the private email server was a mistake,
says she deleted the emails because they were private in nature, not related to
government business. But the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation recently
concluded that she was "extremely careless" in her handling of
classified information in another 30,000 government-related emails, although no
criminal charges were warranted.
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