I’m trying to process this latest bit of news regarding the Republican Party’s nominee for president of the United States.
Donald J. Trump — if I understand this correctly — has called on Russia to locate some missing e-mails belonging to his Democratic Party opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton. He has suggested the Russians should hack into her e-mails, those that were deleted from her personal account while she was serving as secretary of state.
If they do, Trump said, they would be rewarded by the American media.
I’m left to wonder: Has a major-party presidential nominee just asked a major geopolitical foe of this country — of his country — to put our national security into potential jeopardy?
Aren’t there charges that could be filed in relation to such utterly reckless and dangerous rhetoric coming from someone who’s about to start receiving classified briefings from the president’s National Security Council?
If the Russians were to hack into some cyber storage area where those e-mails might be kept, what on Earth else would they be able to find?
Clinton and the Democrats are calling Trump a “dangerous” individual. They are echoing the language uttered during the primary season by his Republican foes.
This irresponsible suggestion by the GOP presidential nominee only demonstrates the grave danger he would pose as our head of government.
Unbelievable!