{"id":48345,"date":"2016-09-09T10:25:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T14:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=48345"},"modified":"2016-09-09T10:25:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T14:25:30","slug":"us-election-trump-sceptical-of-russia-meddling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=48345","title":{"rendered":"US election: Trump sceptical of Russia meddling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Donald Trump has faced a backlash for praising Russia’s president<\/p><\/div>\n

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BBC<\/p>\n

Donald Trump has told a Kremlin-funded TV network “it’s probably unlikely” that Russia is trying to influence the US election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Republican presidential nominee suggested on RT that Democrats were behind claims Russian intelligence agencies had hacked their computers.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump has faced a backlash since praising Russian President Vladimir Putin at a Wednesday night forum.<\/p>\n

His Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, accused him of being unpatriotic.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump was interviewed on Thursday night by Larry King, a former CNN host who now presents a show on RT America, a Russian-funded TV network.<\/p>\n

Trump and Putin: The new bromantics?<\/a><\/p>\n

When King asked him about reports that Russia is trying to disrupt the US election, Mr Trump was sceptical.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s probably unlikely,” he said. “I think maybe the Democrats are putting that out.<\/p>\n

“I hope that if they are doing something, I hope that somebody’s going to be able to find out, so they can end it, because that would not be appropriate at all.”<\/p>\n

A Trump spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, suggested Mr Trump did not realise King’s show was part of a Russian-backed network.<\/p>\n

“Mr Trump recorded a short interview with Larry King for his podcast as a favour to Mr King,” she said.<\/p>\n

Why Trump strikes a chord with Russians<\/a><\/p>\n

“What Larry King does with the interview content is up to him. We have nothing to do with it.”<\/p>\n

Private cyber-security analysts have blamed Russian intelligence agencies for electronic break-ins into Democratic Party computers that emerged in leaks over the summer.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week Defence Secretary Ash Carter said the US would not ignore Russia’s “efforts to interfere with our democratic processes”.<\/p>\n

During a televised forum on Wednesday on national security, Mr Trump complimented Mr Putin for having “great control over his country”.<\/p>\n

Mr Putin has offered kind words for Trump in the past, too, describing him as “a talented man”.<\/p>\n

The Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Corker, offered words of caution for Mr Trump on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“One has to be a little careful to let flattery affect one’s judgment,” he told CNN.<\/p>\n

“Let’s face it, over the last several years, President Putin has operated in ways that very much have been against our interests.”<\/p>\n

Mr Trump urged the Russians in July to hack into Mrs Clinton’s emails to find messages that were deleted from her account amid an investigation into whether she abused state secrets.<\/p>\n

In a news conference on Thursday morning at a New York state airport, Mrs Clinton invoked conservatives’ most revered US president as she pounced on Mr Trump’s remarks.<\/p>\n

“What would Ronald Reagan say about a Republican nominee who attacks American generals and heaps praise on Russia’s president?” she asked.<\/p>\n

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