“Of course, I’m being sarcastic, and they don’t even know, frankly, if it’s Russia,” Mr. Trump said in an interview for “Fox and Friends” Thursday. “They have no idea if it’s Russia, if it’s China, if it’s somebody else. Who knows who it is?”

“But you have 33,000 emails deleted, and the real problem is what was said on those emails from the Democratic National Committee,” he said. “It’s disgraceful. They talk about religion. They talk about race.”

“They talk about all sorts of things, including women, and what they said on those emails is a disgrace and, they’re just trying to deflect from that,” the businessman said.