Republican Donald Trump appealed to Russia on Wednesday to uncover and release thousands of e-mails Hillary Clinton did not hand over to US officials who investigated her use of a private e-mail system when she was secretary of state.
Clinton responded with a campaign statement accusing him of posing a possible national security threat by urging Russia to commit espionage and influence the vote.
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing,” Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, told reporters. Clinton has said the e-mails she did not turn over were private.
Clinton kept a private system for her e-mails at her New York home while she was at the State Department from 2009-2013. She is due to accept the presidential nomination on Thursday, the last day of the party’s convention in Philadelphia.
Her e-mails were the subject of a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe that found no basis for criminal charges despite what FBI Director James Comey this month called evidence that Clinton was “extremely careless” in her handling of classified information.
In the same news conference on Wednesday, Trump dismissed suggestions that Russia had sought to influence the US election by engineering the theft of embarrassing Democratic Party e-mails released by WikiLeaks last week.
The Democratic Party chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, resigned on Sunday after the leaked e-mails showed party leaders favoring Clinton over her rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, for the presidential nomination.
Cyber security experts and US officials have said there was evidence that Russia engineered the release of the sensitive party e-mails in order to influence the presidential election.
“It is so far-fetched, it’s so ridiculous,” Trump said of that theory. He suggested that China or some other party could be involved.

Source ; Arab News