Trump Calls On Russia To Hack And Share Hillary's 33,000 Deleted Personal Emails

On Wednesday, Donald Trump felt compelled to make big news: He called on a foreign power -- in this case Russia -- to launch an espionage operation against his chief political opponent, "hacking into Hillary Clinton’s email server to find 30,000 emails she allegedly deleted."

"Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Trump said. "I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press."'

Donald Trump's Most Chilling Comment on the DNC Has Nothing to do with Russia VOX

Vox's Timothy B. Lee gets it right. I listened to the Donald Trump press conference and was so dumbfounded, that I missed this statement. ~ Anne

"Everyone is talking about Donald Trump’s call for the Russian government to release emails it may have stolen from Hillary Clinton’s private email server. But that wasn’t the most chilling thing Trump said in his rambling answer to a question about who hacked the email server of the Democratic National Committee.

"Honestly, I wish I had that power," Trump responded. "I’d love to have that power."

The thing is, if Trump gets elected president, he probably will have the power to hack into the private communications of his political opponents. And that’s terrifying."

DNC Hacker' Unmasked: He Really Works for Russia, Researchers Say The Daily Beast

Self-described Romanian hacker Guccifer 2.0, who claims to have stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee and provided them to WikiLeaks is actually an agent of the Russian government and part of an orchestrated attempt to influence U.S. media coverage surrounding the presidential election, a security research group concluded on Tuesday.

The researchers, at Arlington, Va.-based ThreatConnect, traced Guccifer's hack back to an Internet server in Russia, one linked to past online Russian scams. The group also concluded that Guccifer 2.0 is most probably a collection of people working for the Russian government. They offer cover for the Russian government, deflecting attention away from Moscow as the nerve center of the operation to hack the DNC and also to leak Hillary's emails.