Donald Trump yesterday gave what some outlets are calling his ‘most unhinged press conference yet’, and those aren’t exactly accusations you can throw around lightly given what we have seen in the past.

Perhaps it was an attempt to divert some of the media attention away from the Democratic National Convention, where the likes of Michelle and Barack have delivered the most eloquent of speeches, or maybe Trump is just this uninformed when it comes to matters of national security.

Somewhere in the middle of those two, I’d hazard a guess.

Vanity Fair have highlighted the most outlandish things he said, so let’s dive in before we get to those videos:

Trump calls on a foreign power to commit an act of cyber-espionage:

“I have nothing to do with Putin. I don’t know anything about him. Other than he will respect me. He doesn’t respect our president. And if it is Russia, which it’s probably not, nobody knows who it is. But if it is Russia, it’d be for a different reason. Because it shows how little respect they have for our country. When they would hack into a major party and get everything. But it would be interesting to see. I will tell you this. Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let’s see if that happens. That will be next.”

Trump tells MSNBC’s Katy Tur to shut up when she asks if he has “any qualms” about inviting hackers to target Hillary:

“No, it gives me no pause. If they have them, they have them. You know what gives me more pause? That a person in our government, crooked Hillary Clinton, here’s what gives me—be quiet, I know you want to, you know, save her—that a person in our government, Katie, would delete or get rid of 33,000 e-mails. That gives me a big problem.”

Yes, be quiet woman – you are not worthy of having your question answered by the Donald.

Here’s a video of how that went down, with a nice bumbling intro:

Trump asks if anybody has heard of “the ‘n’ word”:

“I hope we get along great with Putin because it would be great to have Russia with a good relationship. Right now, we don’t have a good relationship. Putin has said things over the last year that are really bad things, okay. He mentioned the ‘n’ word one time. I was shocked to hear him. You know what the ‘n’ word is, right? Total lack of respect for President Obama.”

Trump calls Obama the stupidest president ever:

“I think President Obama has been the most ignorant president in our history. His views of the world as he says don’t jive and the world is a mess. You look at what’s happening with immigration, with Syria, with Libya, with Iraq, with everything he’s touched. He has been a disaster as a president. He will go down as one of the worst presidents in the history of our country. It is a mess.”

I’ll admit it, the tiniest bit of me wants Trump to win so he gets caught out for the bullshitter that he is, but then reason wins out and I can’t help but sympathise for those level-headed Americans who will be made to suffer.

I’m ‘Putin’ this photo in below for no other reason than I find it humorous:

More on that treason angle below, after Trump effectively told Putin to begin the great hack:

The Clinton campaign immediately shot back, issuing a statement calling Trump’s comments a “national security” threat. “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,” foreign policy adviser Jake Sullivan said.

It would be, but this race for the White House tossed the rulebook out the window quite some time ago.

Here’s Trump’s full speech below, if you can stomach it:

[source:vanityfair]