Flexible.
Via Free Beacon:
A Washington Post reporter falsely claimed Friday that the beginning of the Russian effort to hack Hillary Clinton’s campaign emails came the very same day that her opponent, Donald Trump, called on Russia to find Clinton’s State Department emails.
On July 27, 2016, Trump spoke directly to Russia during a news conference. “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” he said, referring to Clinton’s deleted emails from her time as secretary of state.
The Trump administration would later claim the remarks were a joke, but the Clinton campaign criticized the comments at the time, saying, “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.”
After the Justice Department announced Friday that a federal grand jury indicted 12 Russian government officials for hacking the computer networks of Clinton and the Democratic Party, Washington Post reporter Christopher Ingraham tweeted a screenshot of a portion of the indictment, claiming that Russia’s hacking attempts began the very evening Trump made his remarks.