{"id":644148,"date":"2019-06-23T08:42:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div> <div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/06\/1561277806_686_03072430-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Donald Trump\" title=\"Donald Trump\"\/><\/div><p>U.S. President Donald Trump on "},"modified":"2019-06-23T08:42:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:42:11","slug":"donald-trump-under-pressure-for-saying-hed-take-foreign-intel-on-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/23\/donald-trump-under-pressure-for-saying-hed-take-foreign-intel-on-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump under pressure for saying he\u2019d take foreign intel on rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/1561277806_686_03072430-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Donald Trump\" title=\"Donald Trump\"\/><\/div>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday defended himself from criticism after saying he would take campaign help from foreign powers on his political rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, in an interview on Wednesday, said he would hear out a foreign source with damaging intelligence on opponents, even if the information was coming from competitors like China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he would \u201cmaybe\u2019\u2019 consider reporting the contact to the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI meet and talk to \u2018foreign governments\u2019 every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just met with the Queen of England, the Prince of Wales, the PM of the UK, the PM of Ireland, the President of France and the President of Poland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe talked about \u2018Everything! Should I immediately call the FBI about these calls and meetings? How ridiculous!\u2019\u2019 Trump said in a series of tweets defending his comments.<\/p>\n<p>However, Sen. Lindsay Graham, a Trump ally, was quick to condemn the president as having made a \u201cmistake\u201d and said it is wrong to encourage the sharing of foreign information on domestic rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats were harsher, with some in the party\u2019s left-wing upping their calls for impeachment proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Trump\u2019s comments were giving Russia a \u201cgreen light\u2019\u2019 to interfere again in the elections against 2020.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded that Russian agents interfered to help Trump, however, declined to make a decision whether the White House had obstructed justice.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s remarks, however, came the week before he is set to launch his campaign and while Congress is still probing Russian election interference in 2016.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:none;margin:0px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3E3E3E\"><i>Get more stories like this on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/todayng\" style=\"color: #ED1C24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday defended himself from criticism after saying he would take campaign help from foreign powers on his political rivals. Trump, in an interview on Wednesday, said he would hear out a foreign source with damaging intelligence on opponents, even if the information was coming from competitors like China and Russia. 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