“The person said, ‘But they’re already in Ukraine.’ I said, ‘Yeah, well, that was two years ago,’" Trump told his Ohio audience. Officials with the marshal and convention center offices told reporters that the room reserved by the Trump campaign had reached capacity. Trump insisted, as he had in a statement released Sunday, that he meant to say that Russia would not invade Ukraine on his watch. Other than delving into Ukrainian matters, Trump kept to his usual condemnations of “Crooked Hillary” Clinton, his November adversary. Trump’s softer stance concerning Russia goes against generations of Republican orthodoxy — not that Trump has hewed to that much in his campaign.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 01, 2016 21:11 UTC