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If you didn’t catch the news mid-day on Wednesday, you missed a real treat. First, a general primer on political niceties: traditionally, during the Republican convention, the Democratic presidential nominee continues their campaign events, but as a professional courtesy, the nominee tries not to make news during the other nominee’s week. And vice versa, when the DNC is going on, traditionally the GOP nominee will settle down and not make news. Like, Hillary Clinton waited to announce her VP until after the RNC was over. That was courtesy. But Donald Trump isn’t one for niceties or courtesies. He’s like a toddler in the midst of a tantrum AT ALL TIMES. So Trump called a press conference mid-day on Wednesday, smack in the middle of the DNC’s week. What did he have to announce? Perhaps that he was finally going to release his tax returns? An admission that his campaign is colluding with Vladimir Putin? No. Trump called a press conference to dance around actual treason.

When Trump was asked about Russia’s alleged hack of the DNC’s emails, Trump seemed hopeful that Russia was actually behind the hack, and he said:

“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.”

[Via Vanity Fair]

As you can imagine, there were some follow-up questions. MSNBC’s Katy Tur (this poor woman) asked Trump if he had any qualms about encouraging foreign governments to hack Hillary Clinton, and Trump told her to “be quiet.” I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP.

“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, Katy, would delete or get rid of 33,000 e-mails. That gives me a big problem.”

[Via VF]

The day after a historic moment of watching the first woman in American history become a presidential nominee, the other nominee in the race told a female reporter to “be quiet.” After he suggested that foreign governments should target his opponent and provide him with stolen information, so he can use it in his campaign, because apparently we’re living in this brave new world.

The whole press conference was a mess, as you can imagine, considering Trump was just SO MAD that someone else was getting attention this week, so he was just unleashing his crazy. He said Tim Kaine (the former governor and current senator of Virginia) did a “terrible job” in New Jersey. Trump called Pres. Obama “the most ignorant president in our history.” O RLY? And more – go here and here for more highlights.

Donald Trump: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.” https://t.co/f522S7Tn0F

— CNN (@CNN) July 27, 2016

Here’s Trump telling @KatyTurNBC to “be quiet.” https://t.co/herL2uvVwk

— Alan Kestrel (@AlanKestrel750) July 27, 2016

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