Some People Seem to Think Trump’s Russia Request Was a ‘Joke’
The thought of Donald Trump asking a foreign government to track down illegally-obtained emails from Hillary Clinton is apparently so outrageous that some people are just assuming he was joking:
Fox News's Bret Baier says Trump appeared to be joking when he appealed to the Russians about the 30,000 deleted HRC emails
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) July 27, 2016
Seems pretty clear that Trump was joking about Russia hacking Clinton emails. But you don't want a president who makes that kind of joke.
— Timothy B. Lee (@binarybits) July 27, 2016
@nytimes this is yet another reason why pathetic mainstream media is hated and dying. Obviously joking. But stretched out of context. Frauds
— Franco Gonzalez (@itsFranco) July 27, 2016
The media seems more upset by Trump's joke about Russian hacking than by the fact that Hillary's personal server was vulnerable to Russia
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) July 27, 2016
Team @HillaryClinton is FREAKING that Trump made a joke on Twitter about Hillary's private server and the Russians. https://t.co/rDdiZb3kMf
— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) July 27, 2016
*quiet voice* trump was making a bad sarcastic joke
— Max Read (@max_read) July 27, 2016
Let’s go to the videotape:
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
And this doesn’t seem like he was joking:
If Russia or any other country or person has Hillary Clinton's 33,000 illegally deleted emails, perhaps they should share them with the FBI!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2016
I mean, unless there’s some new level of sarcasm Trump is able to project without actually being sarcastic…
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