--- title: Paul Ryan: Russia Should 'Stay Out of This Election' description: Paul Ryan and other Republicans denounced Russia's involvement in the presidential election without specifically criticizing Donald Trump canonical: https://time.com/4426783/paul-ryan-republicans-donald-trump-russia/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-27T20:09:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:50.528Z article:section: Politics og:title: Paul Ryan Calls on Russia to 'Stay Out of This Election' og:description: The comment came after Trump encouraged Russian hackers to target Clinton. og:url: https://time.com/4426783/paul-ryan-republicans-donald-trump-russia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4aa0566afc30ac18/69889fcd524fc0d2fedf8ee2/donald-trump-russia-comments.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Miami Press Conference og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Paul Ryan Calls on Russia to 'Stay Out of This Election' twitter:description: The comment came after Trump encouraged Russian hackers to target Clinton. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4aa0566afc30ac18/69889fcd524fc0d2fedf8ee2/donald-trump-russia-comments.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Speaker Paul Ryan Calls on 'Global Menace' Russia to 'Stay Out of This Election' > Sponsored content. 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Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jul 27, 2016 8:09 PM UTC GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republicans on Wednesday denounced Russia’s potential involvement in the U.S. presidential election without specifically criticizing GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, who earlier [called on Russia](http://time.com/4426272/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-russia-emails/?xid=homepage) to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails. “Russia is a global menace led by a devious thug. Putin should stay out of this election,” said Brendan Buck, spokesman for Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan, in an email. Trump’s press conference on Wednesday morning came amid an [FBI investigation](http://time.com/4421844/fbi-dnc-email-hack-investigation/?iid=sr-link4) into a [hack of Democratic National Committee files](http://time.com/4368534/dnc-democratic-national-committee-hack-russia-donald-trump/) by the Russian government. “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Trump said at the press conference in Doral, Florida. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let’s see if that happens.” He later repeated a more refined argument on Twitter. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/758335147183788032) Ohio Governor and former presidential candidate John Kasich criticized Clinton’s use of a private email server as Secretary of State, while also cautioning that “Putin is not our friend.” “.@hillaryclinton put our security at risk, but Putin is not our friend; foreign meddling in US elections cannot be tolerated,” [Kasich said](https://twitter.com/JohnKasich/status/758350649687891968) on Twitter. Newt Gingrich, a Trump supporter, called the statement a “joke” and refuted the notion that it was a “national security issue,” as Clinton’s campaign quickly argued. “The media seems more upset by Trump’s joke about Russian hacking than by the fact that Hillary’s personal server was vulnerable to Russia,” Gingrich [said](https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/758341228421414912) on Twitter. “Since Hillary promised us she only deleted 33,000 personal emails how can it be a national security issue if someone releases them?” Trump communications adviser Jason Miller, meanwhile, sought to clarify Trump’s comments and accused Democrats of “trying to change the subject.” “Trump was clearly saying that if Russia or others have Clinton’s 33,000 illegally deleted emails, they should share them w/ FBI immed,” he [said](https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/758365247006801920), arguing that Trump did not “call on, or invite, Russia or anyone else to hack Hillary Clinton’s e-mails today.” Trump’s running mate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence took a different tack, promising “serious consequences” if Russia was, in fact, responsible for the hack. “The FBI will get to the bottom of who is behind the hacking,” Pence said in a statement. “If it is Russia and they are interfering in our elections, I can assure you both parties and the United States government will ensure there are serious consequences.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4426783/paul-ryan-republicans-donald-trump-russia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4426783/paul-ryan-republicans-donald-trump-russia/"},"headline":"Speaker Paul Ryan Calls on 'Global Menace' Russia to 'Stay Out of This Election'","datePublished":"2016-07-27T20:09:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:50.528Z","description":"The call came after Donald Trump encouraged Russian hackers to target Hillary Clinton","url":"https://time.com/4426783/paul-ryan-republicans-donald-trump-russia/","keywords":["Donald Trump","russia","2016 Election","Vladimir Putin","Democratic National Committee"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4aa0566afc30ac18/69889fcd524fc0d2fedf8ee2/donald-trump-russia-comments.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4aa0566afc30ac18/69889fcd524fc0d2fedf8ee2/donald-trump-russia-comments.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Miami Press Conference","caption":"Donald Trump Miami Press Conference","creditText":"Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4426783/paul-ryan-republicans-donald-trump-russia/","name":"Speaker Paul Ryan Calls on 'Global Menace' Russia to 'Stay Out of This Election'"}}]}] ```