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Democratic candidate
Hillary Clinton
- During the second presidential primary debate on October 9, 2016, Hillary Clinton said that Russia was involved in the WikiLeaks release of emails allegedly obtain from the account of her campaign manager, John Podesta. She added that Russia was directing the hacks to benefit Donald Trump's campaign. "[O]ur intelligence community just came out and said in the last few days that the Kremlin, meaning Putin and the Russian government, are directing the attacks, the hacking on American accounts to influence our election. And WikiLeaks is part of that, as are other sites where the Russians hack information, we don't even know if it's accurate information, and then they put it out. We have never in the history of our country been in a situation where an adversary, a foreign power, is working so hard to influence the outcome of the election. And believe me, they're not doing it to get me elected. They're doing it to try to influence the election for Donald Trump. Now, maybe because he has praised Putin, maybe because he says he agrees with a lot of what Putin wants to do, maybe because he wants to do business in Moscow, I don't know the reasons. But we deserve answers. And we should demand that Donald release all of his tax returns so that people can see what are the entanglements and the financial relationships that he has with the Russians and other foreign powers," Clinton said.[2]
- Clinton also said during the debate that civilians were "suffering in this catastrophic war [Syrian Civil War] largely...because of Russian aggression."[2]
- She said that it was "fine" to cooperate whenever possible with Russia, but warned against the "the ambitions and the aggressiveness of Russia." She continued, "Russia has decided that it's all in, in Syria. And they've also decided who they want to see become president of the United States, too, and it's not me. I've stood up to Russia. I've taken on Putin and others, and I would do that as president."[2]
- On September 5, 2016, Clinton compared the alleged Russian hack of the Democratic National Committee to "Watergate only now in cyber time." She added that Trump's relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin "raises even more serious questions about Trump" and that it was "interesting that this activity has happened around the time Trump became the nominee."[3]
- In August 2016, the Associated Press published a profile of Clinton's handling of U.S.-Russia relations while secretary of state, chronicling her success in pushing for a nuclear arms control treaty and missteps with Syria. “Russia outmaneuvered her in negotiations over a complicated Syria peace plan, dealing her what was arguably her worst diplomatic defeat. While Clinton hailed it as a triumph, the war only escalated. And while her aides still insist she came out on top, the blueprint effectively gave Syria's Moscow-backed president, Bashar Assad, a veto over any transition government, hampering all mediation efforts still,” the Associated Press reported.[4]
- During the ninth Democratic debate on April 14, 2016, Clinton was asked about the United States’ involvement with NATO. She said, “I support our continuing involvement in NATO. And it is important to ask for our NATO allies to pay more of the cost. There is a requirement that they should be doing so, and I believe that needs to be enforced. ... I will stay in NATO, and we will continue to look for missions and other kinds of programs that they will support. Remember, NATO was with us in Afghanistan. Most of the member countries also lost soldiers and civilians in Afghanistan. They came to our rallying defense after 9/11. That meant a lot. And, yes, we have to work out the financial aspects of it, but let’s not forget what’s really happening. With Russia being more aggressive, making all kinds of intimidating moves toward the Baltic countries, we’ve seen what they’ve done in Eastern Ukraine, we know how they want to rewrite the map of Europe, it is not in our interests. Think of how much it would cost if Russia’s aggression were not deterred because NATO was there on the front lines making it clear they could not move forward.”[5]
- At the third Democratic primary debate on December 19, 2015, Hillary Clinton discussed her support for establishing a no-fly zone in Syria: “[O]ne of the reasons why I have advocated for a no-fly zone is in order to create those safe refuges within Syria, to try to protect people on the ground both from Assad's forces, who are continuing to drop barrel bombs, and from ISIS. And of course, it has to be de-conflicted with the Russians, who are also flying in that space. I'm hoping that because of the very recent announcement of the agreement at the Security Council, which embodies actually an agreement that I negotiated back in Geneva in June of 2012, we're going to get a diplomatic effort in Syria to begin to try to make a transition. A no-fly zone would prevent the outflow of refugees and give us a chance to have some safe spaces.”[6]
- Read more of Hillary Clinton's public statements on Russia.
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Republican candidate
Donald Trump
- During the second presidential debate on October 9, 2016, Donald Trump rejected Hillary Clinton's assertion that Russia had been involved with a WikiLeaks release of her campaign chair's email archive and that he wanted to do business with the country. Trump said, "I don’t know Putin. I think it would be great if we got along with Russia because we could fight ISIS together, as an example. But I don’t know Putin. But I notice, anytime anything wrong happens, they like to say the Russians are — she doesn’t know if it’s the Russians doing the hacking. Maybe there is no hacking. But they always blame Russia. And the reason they blame Russia because they think they’re trying to tarnish me with Russia. I know nothing about Russia. I know — I know about Russia, but I know nothing about the inner workings of Russia. I don’t deal there. I have no businesses there. I have no loans from Russia."[9]
- At a "commander-in-chief" forum on NBC News in September 2016, Trump discussed Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying, “[H]e does have an 82 percent approval rating, according to the different pollsters, who, by the way, some of them are based right here. … I think I’d be able to get along with him. … If he says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him. I’ve already said, he is really very much of a leader. I mean, you can say, oh, isn’t that a terrible thing — the man has very strong control over a country. … Now, it’s a very different system, and I don’t happen to like the system. But certainly, in that system, he’s been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader.”[10]
- An August 2016 article in The New York Times reported that Paul Manafort, Trump's then-campaign chair, received millions of dollars worth of cash payments from the party of the former Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, while acting as an adviser in Ukraine. The paper wrote, "Handwritten ledgers show $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments designated for Mr. Manafort from Mr. Yanukovych’s pro-Russian political party from 2007 to 2012, according to Ukraine’s newly formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau. Investigators assert that the disbursements were part of an illegal off-the-books system whose recipients also included election officials."[11] Manafort denied the allegations, saying, "The suggestion that I accepted cash payments is unfounded, silly and nonsensical."[12] Manafort resigned from the campaign on August 19, 2016, shortly after Kellyanne Conway become campaign manager.[13]
- During an interview that aired on ABC News on July 31, 2016, Trump said that he was not concerned with Putin entering Ukraine. “He’s not gonna go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want.” When host George Stephanopoulos countered that Russia had already entered Ukraine, Trump said, “OK― well, he’s there in a certain way. But I’m not there. You have Obama there. And frankly, that whole part of the world is a mess under Obama with all the strength that you’re talking about and all of the power of NATO and all of this. In the meantime, he’s going away. He take ― takes Crimea.” He added that he had heard that Crimeans “would rather be with Russia than where they were.”[14]
- Trump encouraged Russia and other countries to locate emails deleted from Hillary Clinton's private email server on July 27, 2016, following the release of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee. He said, "I have nothing to do with Putin. I've never spoken to him. 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's really bad 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."[15] The following day, Trump said that he was "being sarcastic."[16]
- Read more of Donald Trump's public statements on Russia.
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Green candidate
Jill Stein
- Jill Stein said in an interview on October 19, 2016, that the United States was "on the verge of nuclear war right now" with Russia. She continued, "[F]rom Russia’s point of view, they’ve been encroached upon, there have been missiles that have surrounded them now. And this has been going on for years. Now there are war games going on and exercises, and our negotiations have absolutely broken down. And both sides are moving their missiles in for exchange. So to my mind, this is the Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse, on steroids." She advocated engaging Russia on nuclear disarmament and said that "it’s us who’s been slamming the door on nuclear disarmament progress."[18]
- In an interview on October 12, 2016, Stein had said that Hillary Clinton's foreign policy regarding Russia was more dangerous than Donald Trump's. "It is now Hillary Clinton that wants to start an air war with Russia over Syria by calling for a no fly zone. We have 2000 nuclear missiles on hairtrigger [sic] alert. They are saying we are closer to a nuclear war than we have ever been. Under Hillary Clinton, we could slide into nuclear war very quickly from her declared policy in Syria. I sure won't sleep well at night if Donald Trump is elected, but I sure won't sleep well at night if Hillary Clinton elected. We have another choice other than these two candidates who are both promoting lethal policies. On the issue of war and nuclear weapons, it is actually Hillary's policies which are much scarier than Donald Trump who does not want to go to war with Russia. He wants to seek modes of working together, which is the route that we need to follow not to go into confrontation and nuclear war with Russia," she said.[19]
- Commenting on Russian military intervention in Ukraine, Stein had stated in an interview published on September 14, 2016, "Ukraine was historically a part of Russia for quite some period of time, and we all know there was this conversation with Victoria Nuland about planning the coup and who was going to take over. Not that the other guy was some model of democracy. But the one they put in — with the support of the US and the CIA in this coup in Ukraine — that has not been a solution. Regime change is something we need to be very careful about. And this is a highly inflammatory regime change with a nuclear armed power next door. So I’m saying: Let’s just stop pretending there are good guys here and bad guys here. These are complicated situations. Yeah, Russia is doing lots of human rights abuse, but you know what? So are we.”[20]
- On September 10, 2016, Stein had written an open letter to Yevgeniya Chirikova and Nadezhda Kutepova, two Russian environmentalists who were critical of her policy positions on Russia.[21]
- Stein said that she had been "grossly misrepresented" by the media. "There is a growing tendency in American politics to label critics of the established order as agents of Russia working against the United States. For example, when WikiLeaks exposed massive corruption at the highest levels of the Democratic Party, high-ranking Democratic Party officials and their supporters in the media began attacking WikiLeaks as an alleged agent of Russia, despite their inability to produce any hard evidence to support this claim. This tactic of smearing critics as Russian agents is the mirror image of the Putin administration’s tactic of labeling Putin critics as agents of the West. It is reminiscent of the shameful history of Russia-baiting attacks against political opposition leaders like Martin Luther King Jr.," Stein said.
- Stein added that she did not confront Putin about human rights violations when she visited Moscow in 2015 because there was no interpreter present. She continued, "Clinton’s anti-Russian maneuvering will surely be used by Putin to justify further attacks on his political opponents as agents of the West, and Republican Donald Trump seems as uninterested in human rights as he is in environmental progress. What the Greens offer is completely different: we see Russians not as enemies to conquer or resources to exploit, but as members of the global community whom we must deal with. We seek principled collaboration to develop potential partnerships to create a world that works for all of us."
- Read more of Jill Stein's public statements on Russia.
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Libertarian candidate
Gary Johnson
- Gary Johnson said on September 8, 2016, that the United States must ally with Russia to address the crisis in Aleppo, Syria. He explained, "Well, with regard to Syria, I do think that it's a mess. And I think the only way that we deal with Syria is to join hands with Russia to diplomatically bring that at an end. But when we've aligned ourselves with, when we've supported the opposition, the Free Syrian Army, the Free Syrian Army is also coupled with the Islamists, and then the fact that we're also supporting the Kurds. And this is — it's just a mess."[23]
- In an interview on PBS on June 6, 2016, Johnson expressed resistance to the United States hypothetically joining NATO in the defense of an eastern European country invaded by Russia. "We need to involve Congress in all of these decisions, which they have abdicated really to the executive, to the military. Right now, Russia is stretched economically. Do we really want to go in and defend Baltic states against Russian aggression? Do we really want to go to war over that? I think it’s wrong to project what you would or wouldn’t do given any situation, because that’s kind of drawing a line in the sand," he said.[24]
- In May 2014, Johnson said that the U.S. should not involve itself in Russia's military intervention in Ukraine because there was "no national security interest...at stake." He analogized, "It would be like Russia getting involved in the affairs of Puerto Rico. They’re not going to do it! We shouldn’t be involved in Ukraine!"[25]
- Read more of Gary Johnson's public statements on foreign affairs.
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Recent news
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See also
- 2016 presidential candidates on foreign affairs
- 2016 presidential candidates on national security
- Presidential election, 2016
Footnotes
- ↑ CNN, "Hillary Clinton launches second presidential bid," April 12, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Washington Post, "Everything that was said at the second Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton debate, highlighted," October 9, 2016
- ↑ CNN, "Hillary Clinton: Timing of Russian hack aimed at helping Trump," September 6, 2016
- ↑ Associated Press, "Putin's return to power ended Clinton's 'Moscow Spring,'" August 8, 2016
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs nameddebatetrans - ↑ The Washington Post, "3rd Democratic debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant," December 19, 2015
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Democratic Party, "The 2016 Democratic Party Platform," accessed August 24, 2016
- ↑ The New York Times, "Transcript of the Second Debate," October 10, 2016
- ↑ Time, "Read Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s Remarks at a Military Forum," September 7, 2016
- ↑ The New York Times, "Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief," August 14, 2016
- ↑ Politico, "Manafort blasts NYT, denies he accepted Ukraine cash payments," August 15, 2016
- ↑ The New York Times, "Donald Trump, in Shake-Up, Hires Breitbart Executive for Top Campaign Post," August 17, 2016
- ↑ The Huffington Post, "It Appears Donald Trump Doesn’t Know About The Crimea Annexation Or Doesn’t Care," July 31, 2016
- ↑ The Washington Post, "Donald Trump’s falsehood-laden press conference, annotated," July 27, 2016
- ↑ CNN, "Trump walks back email hack comments, but damage lingers," July 28, 2016
- ↑ Republican Party, "The 2016 Republican Party Platform," accessed August 24, 2016
- ↑ Slate, "We Are on the Verge of a Nuclear War," October 19, 2016
- ↑ RealClearPolitics, "Jill Stein: Trump Is Less Dangerous Than Clinton; She Will Start Nuclear War With Russia," October 12, 2016
- ↑ Vox, "A conversation with Jill Stein: what the Green Party candidate believes," September 14, 2016
- ↑ Jill 2016, "Jill Stein responds to Russian environmentalists," September 10, 2016
- ↑ Green Party, "The 2016 Green Party Platform on Democracy," accessed August 24, 2016
- ↑ NPR, "In TV Interview, Candidate Gary Johnson Asks 'What Is Aleppo?'" September 8, 2016
- ↑ PBS, "Why a Gary Johnson thinks 2016 could be a third-party year," June 6, 2016
- ↑ RT, "US involvement in Ukraine is like ‘Russia getting involved in Puerto Rico,'" May 1, 2014
- ↑ Libertarian Party, "The 2016 Libertarian Party Platform," accessed August 24, 2016
Read below what Hillary Clinton and the 2016 Democratic Platform said about Russia.
Clinton on Russia
- During the second presidential primary debate on October 9, 2016, Hillary Clinton said that Russia was involved in the WikiLeaks release of emails allegedly obtain from the account of her campaign manager, John Podesta. She added that Russia was directing the hacks to benefit Donald Trump's campaign. "[O]ur intelligence community just came out and said in the last few days that the Kremlin, meaning Putin and the Russian government, are directing the attacks, the hacking on American accounts to influence our election. And WikiLeaks is part of that, as are other sites where the Russians hack information, we don't even know if it's accurate information, and then they put it out. We have never in the history of our country been in a situation where an adversary, a foreign power, is working so hard to influence the outcome of the election. And believe me, they're not doing it to get me elected. They're doing it to try to influence the election for Donald Trump. Now, maybe because he has praised Putin, maybe because he says he agrees with a lot of what Putin wants to do, maybe because he wants to do business in Moscow, I don't know the reasons. But we deserve answers. And we should demand that Donald release all of his tax returns so that people can see what are the entanglements and the financial relationships that he has with the Russians and other foreign powers," Clinton said.[1]
- Clinton also said during the debate that civilians were "suffering in this catastrophic war [Syrian Civil War] largely...because of Russian aggression."[1]
- She said that it was "fine" to cooperate whenever possible with Russia, but warned against the "the ambitions and the aggressiveness of Russia." She continued, "Russia has decided that it's all in, in Syria. And they've also decided who they want to see become president of the United States, too, and it's not me. I've stood up to Russia. I've taken on Putin and others, and I would do that as president."[1]
- On September 5, 2016, Clinton compared the alleged Russian hack of the Democratic National Committee to "Watergate only now in cyber time." She added that Trump's relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin "raises even more serious questions about Trump" and that it was "interesting that this activity has happened around the time Trump became the nominee."[2]
- In August 2016, the Associated Press published a profile of Clinton's handling of U.S.-Russia relations while secretary of state, chronicling her success in pushing for a nuclear arms control treaty and missteps with Syria. “Russia outmaneuvered her in negotiations over a complicated Syria peace plan, dealing her what was arguably her worst diplomatic defeat. While Clinton hailed it as a triumph, the war only escalated. And while her aides still insist she came out on top, the blueprint effectively gave Syria's Moscow-backed president, Bashar Assad, a veto over any transition government, hampering all mediation efforts still,” the Associated Press reported.[3]
- During the ninth Democratic debate on April 14, 2016, Clinton was asked about the United States’ involvement with NATO. She said, “I support our continuing involvement in NATO. And it is important to ask for our NATO allies to pay more of the cost. There is a requirement that they should be doing so, and I believe that needs to be enforced. ... I will stay in NATO, and we will continue to look for missions and other kinds of programs that they will support. Remember, NATO was with us in Afghanistan. Most of the member countries also lost soldiers and civilians in Afghanistan. They came to our rallying defense after 9/11. That meant a lot. And, yes, we have to work out the financial aspects of it, but let’s not forget what’s really happening. With Russia being more aggressive, making all kinds of intimidating moves toward the Baltic countries, we’ve seen what they’ve done in Eastern Ukraine, we know how they want to rewrite the map of Europe, it is not in our interests. Think of how much it would cost if Russia’s aggression were not deterred because NATO was there on the front lines making it clear they could not move forward.”[4]
- At the third Democratic primary debate on December 19, 2015, Hillary Clinton discussed her support for establishing a no-fly zone in Syria: “[O]ne of the reasons why I have advocated for a no-fly zone is in order to create those safe refuges within Syria, to try to protect people on the ground both from Assad's forces, who are continuing to drop barrel bombs, and from ISIS. And of course, it has to be de-conflicted with the Russians, who are also flying in that space. I'm hoping that because of the very recent announcement of the agreement at the Security Council, which embodies actually an agreement that I negotiated back in Geneva in June of 2012, we're going to get a diplomatic effort in Syria to begin to try to make a transition. A no-fly zone would prevent the outflow of refugees and give us a chance to have some safe spaces.”[5]
- During first Democratic primary debate, on October 13, 2015, Clinton weighed in on Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to increase that nation's military engagement in Syria. Clinton said, “There's no doubt that when Putin came back in and said he was going to be President, that did change the relationship. We have to stand up to his bullying, and specifically in Syria, it is important -- and I applaud the administration because they are engaged in talks right now with the Russians to make it clear that they've got to be part of the solution to try to end that bloody conflict. And, to -- provide safe zones so that people are not going to have to be flooding out of Syria at the rate they are. And, I think it's important too that the United States make it very clear to Putin that it's not acceptable for him to be in Syria creating more chaos, bombing people on behalf of Assad, and we can't do that if we don't take more of a leadership position, which is what I'm advocating.”[6]
- On October 1, 2015, Clinton advocated "for a no-fly zone and humanitarian corridors to try to stop the carnage on the ground and from the air" in Syria following Russia's military intervention in the country.[7]
- On September 20, 2015, Clinton said that the United States should increase sanctions against Russia if it aided Hezbollah in Syria.[8]
- In July 2015, Clinton criticized the legislative effort by Congress to combat cyberterrorism through info-sharing, saying it "doesn't go far enough to try to have better coordination between the public and private sector." After noting that China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran had sponsored hacking in some form, Clinton said that there were "cumbersome procurement and bureaucratic obstacles within the federal government" preventing more responsive cybersecurity.[9]
- In July 2014, after Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down, Clinton advocated for tougher sanctions on Russia and more U.S. support for Ukrainians. She said, "One, toughen their (Russia's) own sanctions. Make it very clear there has to be a price to pay. Number two, immediately accelerate efforts and announce they are doing so to find alternatives to Gazprom. And thirdly, do more in concert with us to support the Ukrainians. There has to be more help on their borders in order to prevent this porous border allowing Russians to go back and forth, insurgents to do the same."[10]
- Clinton launched a "reset" of U.S.-Russia relations while she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. Read more about the effort here.
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Recent news
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See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Washington Post, "Everything that was said at the second Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton debate, highlighted," October 9, 2016
- ↑ CNN, "Hillary Clinton: Timing of Russian hack aimed at helping Trump," September 6, 2016
- ↑ Associated Press, "Putin's return to power ended Clinton's 'Moscow Spring,'" August 8, 2016
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs nameddebatetrans - ↑ The Washington Post, "3rd Democratic debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant," December 19, 2015
- ↑ The Washington Post, "The CNN Democratic debate transcript, annotated," October 13, 2015
- ↑ MSNBC, "Hillary Clinton calls for no-fly zone in Syria," October 1, 2015
- ↑ The Huffington Post, "Hillary Clinton Calls On United States To Accept 65,000 Syrian Refugees," September 20, 2015
- ↑ National Journal, "Hillary Clinton: Cyber Legislation in Congress Is 'Not Enough' to Stop Foreign Hackers," July 7, 2015
- ↑ Telegraph, “Hillary Clinton: Europe should toughen sanctions on Russia after MH17 crash," July 18, 2014
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Democratic Party, "The 2016 Democratic Party Platform," accessed August 24, 2016
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