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Pile On: Reid, Booker Follow McCaskill’s Lead On Trump’s Remarks About Russia

Piggybacking off what Cortney wrote about Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said about Trump’s remarks about enticing Russia to dig up Clinton’s deleted emails. It certainly got under the skin of top Democrats including Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Harry Reid (D-NV) saying they’re either looking into what they can do to respond to these remarks or agreeing with McCaskill that Trump may have violated the Logan Act (via the Hill):

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"I'm already in conversations about this. I want to assess what the options are," Booker said in an interview on Thursday on Joe Madison's "The Black Eagle" show on SiriusXM.

"So I want to find out what the appropriate actions will be. ... I’m looking forward to sort of getting into more of the details and understanding the full nature of what he was saying, as well as what the implications are and what my options are in office."

The relationship ship between Booker and the Trump family is sort of odd, as Ivanka held a fundraiser for the former’s 2013 senate race. Now, we have Trump attacking Booker over his speech to the Democratic Convention, where he tore into the Republican nominee. Trump responded by saying that Booker has no future in the Democratic Party, while Booker responded by saying that he loves Donald and will pray for him. All of this whiles the New Jersey senator also called him anti-American prior to the DNC.

After McCaskill and Booker, comes outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who was quoted by The Hill, “I had a number of people come up to me yesterday about the Logan Act. He may have done that. He may have violated the law…his business records skirted the law for a long, long time."

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Now, we all know that Trump’s remarks were made I jest, or at least that’s what he’s now telling the press. Obama’s intelligence chief, James Clapper, said Americans should stop going nuts over the DNC hack, and blaming the Russians for it. These things happen—and it’s the new reality we live in, where people engages in hacking (via Washington Examiner):

Americans need to calm down and stop blaming Russia for hacking the Democratic National Committee, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said on Thursday.

"I'm somewhat taken aback by the hyperventilation on this," Clapper said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado. "I'm shocked someone did some hacking," he added sarcastically. "That's never happened before."

Russia also responded by saying this in an in-house matter, and that Russia doesn’t involve itself in the internal affairs of other nations. They also called the allegations lobbed against them by Democrats that they were behind the hack as “total stupidity” (via Reuters):

Russia told the United States on Thursday to get to the bottom of a hacking scandal involving Democratic Party emails itself and rejected what Donald Trump said was a sarcastic suggestion that Moscow should dig up Hillary Clinton's "missing" emails.

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On Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said accusations of a Russian hand in hacking Democratic Party emails bordered on "total stupidity" and were motivated by anti-Russian sentiment. He rejected Trump's apparently sarcastic suggestion for Russia to dig up Clinton's emails point-blank.

"As regards these (email) batches, that is not our headache. We never poke our noses into others' affairs and we really don't like it when people try to poke their nose into ours," he said.

"The Americans needs to get to the bottom of what these emails are themselves and find out what it's all about."

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