In a world outside of the resolutely upbeat, aggressively inclusive convention center where Democrats recently nominated Hillary Clinton for president, Donald Trump, a man with no filter, still exists and says things.
With the media largely focused on the goings-on at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Trump stole back the spotlight on Wednesday in a wild press conference that left journalists spinning as they rushed to write up the many shocking, baffling (and even, potentially, treasonous) remarks he saw fit to make:
Trump calls on a foreign power to commit an act of cyber-espionage:
“I have nothing to do with Putin. I don’t know anything about him. Other than he will respect me. He doesn’t respect our president. And if it is Russia, which it’s probably not, nobody knows who it is. But if it is Russia, it’d be for a different reason. Because it shows how little respect they have for our country. When they would hack into a major party and get everything. But it would be interesting to see. I will tell you this. Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let’s see if that happens. That will be next.”
“She gets subpoenaed. She gets rid of 33,000 e-mails. That gives me a problem. Now, if Russia or China or any other country have those e-mails, I mean, to be honest with you, I’d love to see them.”
Trump tells MSNBC’s Katy Tur to shut up when she asks if he has “any qualms” about inviting hackers to target Hillary:
“No, it gives me no pause. If they have them, they have them. You know what gives me more pause? That a person in our government, crooked Hillary Clinton, here's what gives me—be quiet, I know you want to, you know, save her—that a person in our government, Katie, would delete or get rid of 33,000 e-mails. That gives me a big problem.”
Trump has a Freudian slip:
“Her running mate, Tim Kaine, who, by the way, did a terrible job in—first act he did in New Jersey was ask for a $4 billion tax increase and he's not very popular in New Jersey—what? I mean Virginia.”
Trump asks if anybody has heard of “the ‘n’ word”:
“I hope we get along great with Putin because it would be great to have Russia with a good relationship. Right now, we don't have a good relationship. Putin has said things over the last year that are really bad things, okay. He mentioned the ‘n’ word one time. I was shocked to hear him. You know what the ‘n’ word is, right? Total lack of respect for President Obama.”
Trump calls Obama the stupidest president ever:
“I think President Obama has been the most ignorant president in our history. His views of the world as he says don’t jive and the world is a mess. You look at what’s happening with immigration, with Syria, with Libya, with Iraq, with everything he’s touched. He has been a disaster as a president. He will go down as one of the worst presidents in the history of our country. It is a mess.”
Trump says Huma can’t be trusted with her “pervert” husband:
“I mean, her number one person, Huma Abedin, is married to Anthony Weiner, who’s a sleazeball and a pervert. And I’m not saying that—I mean, that’s regarded history, right? I don’t like Huma going home at night and telling Anthony Weiner all of those secrets, okay.”
