Trump told Fox News on Thursday that his challenge to Russia was meant to be sarcastic. Undaunted by charges that he was too friendly toward President Vladimir Putin, Trump told the crowd in Davenport that the U.S. needed to improve relations with Russia. He said he’d resisted the temptation to respond “viciously” to those attacking him at the Democratic gathering this week in Philadelphia. “I was going to hit a number of those speakers so hard, their heads would spin,” he said. Trump bemoaned the U.S. fighting “politically correct wars,” but the only one he specified was the Iraq war.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 29, 2016 01:59 UTC