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CNN reports: Wikileaks released a series of voicemails Wednesday from the Democratic National Committee hack showing donors plying top-level officials for favors, and one donor expressing outrage that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had won a say in the drafting of the party’s platform. In one of the 29 voicemails released, a woman who donated $300 to Clinton called the party …

From the New York Daily News: He is running for President of the United States, right? Donald Trump on Wednesday urged Russian hackers to find the thousands of emails his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton erased from her private server, putting more scrutiny on the “bromance” between the Republican nominee and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Russia, if you are listening,” he …

Via Mediaite: Whoever had “What does Vladimir Putin’s dick taste like?” on the Bingo card of things that comedian Stephen Colbert wants to ask Donald Trump just won YUGE. That was the response that the Late Show host hysterically and inextricably gave to a young woman in the audience of Wednesday’s show who wondered what the real estate mogul would …

“Clinton’s server was not secure, we don’t know where those emails are and the FBI was wrong in not recommending charges against her. The U.S. was totally exposed here. Who knows how many countries hacked into Clinton’s secret server? To be clear, Mr. Trump did not call on, or invite, Russia or anyone else to hack Hillary Clinton’s email today. …

The New York Times reports:  Donald J. Trump said Wednesday that he hoped Russia had hacked Hillary Clinton’s email, essentially encouraging an adversarial foreign power’s cyberspying on a secretary of state’s correspondence. “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Mr. Trump said, staring directly into the cameras. “I think you will …

Via Talking Points Memo: During an interview on CBS’ “This Morning,” co-host Norah O’Donnell noted that Trump has said that he does not have any investments in Russia. “But does Russia have investments in Trump?” she then asked. “Would Mr. Trump be willing to release his tax returns to provide transparency on this issue?” Manafort did not say whether Russia …

Business Insider reports: Russia’s troll factories were, at one point, likely being paid by the Kremlin to spread pro-Trump propaganda on social media. That is what freelance journalist Adrian Chen, now a staff writer at The New Yorker, discovered as he was researching Russia’s “army of well-paid trolls” for an explosive New York Times Magazine exposé published in June 2015. …

Via Mediaite: After months of praising Russian leader Vladimir Putin and bragging about having once met, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that they had never even met at all. “I have nothing to do with Russia,” Trump maintained in an interview with CBS’s Miami affiliate. “I never met Putin, nothing to do with Russia.” But in November’s Fox …

Reuters reports: The Kremlin on Wednesday dismissed allegations Russia had hacked Democratic Party emails as “horror stories” dreamt up by U.S. politicians, saying it never interfered in other countries’ election campaigns. “Moscow is at pains to avoid any words that could be interpreted as direct or indirect interference in the election process,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call …

Politico reports: Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook suggested Sunday that internal DNC emails leaked last week were an effort from the Russians to help Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “What’s disturbing to us is that experts are telling us Russian state actors broke into the DNC, stole these emails, and other experts are now saying that the Russians are …

Via Christianity Today: Christians in Russia won’t be allowed to email their friends an invitation to church or to evangelize in their own homes if Russia’s newest set of surveillance and anti-terrorism laws are enacted. The proposed laws, considered the country’s most restrictive measures in post-Soviet history, place broad limitations on missionary work, including preaching, teaching, and engaging in any …

Via the Guardian: A few months ago, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin seemed on course to becoming best buddies. Asked in December for his view of the Republican presidential frontrunner, the Russian president described him as “a colourful and talented person without any doubt” and “the absolute leader of the presidential race”. Trump welcomed the praise, saying: “It is always …

The presidential campaign of Ohio Gov. John Kashich has launched a parody website which claims that Donald Trump has selected Vladimir Putin as his running mate. World Net Daily readers are furious. Hit the link and enjoy the spittle-flecked poutrage.

This morning Donald Trump floored MSNBC’s Morning Joe team when host Joe Scarborough asked him about Vladimir Putin’s reputation as a strongman who has journalists killed. Business Insider has the transcript: “Sure, when people call you ‘brilliant’ it’s always good. Especially when the person heads up Russia,” Trump told cohost Mika Brzezinski when asked about Putin praising him as “very …

Russian president Vladimir Putin appeared to endorse Donald Trump in remarks made yesterday in Moscow. Via Politico: According to an Interfax report of his annual year-end news conference, Putin called the Republican presidential candidate “a very bright and talented man,” as well as an “absolute leader” in the race for the presidency. “He says that he wants to move to …

Vladimir Putin this morning dismissed the claims as “unfounded” as Russia faces expulsion from the 2016 Olympics due to a massive doping scandal revealed yesterday. CNN reports: Commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and carried out by the organization’s former president, Dick Pound, the findings uncovered a “deeply rooted culture of cheating at all levels” within Russian athletics. Asked …

Mikhail Lesin, media tycoon and former top advisor to Vladimir Putin, was found dead in a Washington DC hotel yesterday. ABC News reports: Lesin, the former head of media affairs for the Russian government who’s been accused of curtailing the country’s press freedoms, had been staying at Hotel Dupont when he was found Thursday, according to officials. It’s unclear why …

Franklin Graham was in Russia last week where he fawned over Vladimir Putin to the local media, praised Russia’s anti-LGBT crackdown, and accused gays of taking “other people’s children.” Right Wing Watch has a quote: “I have met the president [Obama] on several occasions. He’s a very nice person. But he supports and promotes policies that contradict the teachings of …

Russian president Vladimir Putin sat down with 60 Minutes in advance of his address today before the United Nations General Assembly. According to Putin, Russia treats its LGBT citizens very well. Via CBS News: “The problem of sexual minorities in Russia had been deliberately exaggerated from the outside for political reasons, I believe, without any good basis,” he tells Charlie …

NBC News reports: Can you feel the love tonight? Vladimir Putin has called Elton John — and this time it’s for real. Weeks after a pair of pranksters fooled the singer into thinking that he was talking to the Russian leader about gay rights in the country, Putin put in a brief personal call on Thursday. “He told Elton, I …