TRUMP HAS THIS TO SAY

It might have been the day after Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win a party’s presidential nomination, but her Republican rival, Donald Trump, managed to get the majority of attention Wednesday thanks to a series of controversial comments during a Florida press conference.

ON HACKING

On the heels of reports that Russia may have hacked Democratic party emails, Trump had this to say: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” He was referring to the thousands of emails Clinton says she deleted during her years as secretary of state. Clinton’s campaign responded swiftly. “This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent,” said Clinton adviser Jake Sullivan.

ON CRIMEA

Lost in the shadow of the emails comment was this response from Trump when he was asked if he would recognize Crimea as Russian territory and lift related sanctions: “We’ll be looking at that. Yeah, we’ll be looking.”

ON PUTIN

“I would treat Vladimir Putin firmly but there’s nothing that I can think of that I’d rather do than have Russia friendly as opposed to the way they are right now so that we can go and knock out ISIS together with other people and with other countries.”