PHILADELPHIA — Donald Trump’s suggestion that the Russians should help the U.S. find Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized private State Department emails comes awfully close to treason, according to CNN political analyst Christine Quinn.

The GOP nominee told reporters in a lengthy press conference Wednesday morning, “[The Russians] probably have her 33,000 emails that she lost and deleted. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”

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