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Hillary Clinton approved dissemination of Trump-Russian bank allegations to media, campaign manager testifies

posted 2 years ago by Satan2016 (23490)
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Lock her up! Even CNN reports this.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hillary-clinton-approved-trump-russian-bank-allegations-sussmann-trial.amp

Former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook testified Friday that then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton approved the dissemination of materials alleging a covert communications channel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank to the media, despite campaign officials not being "totally confident" in the legitimacy of the data.

Former FBI General Counsel James Baker testified Thursday that the bureau investigated the data alleging a Trump connection to the Kremlin-linked bank, and found that "there was nothing there."

He also said he discussed whether to give the information to a reporter with senior campaign officials, including campaign chairman John Podesta, senior policy advisor, now White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, and communications director Jennifer Palmieri.

"I discussed it with Hillary as well," Mook said.

"I don’t remember the substance of the conversation, but notionally, the discussion was, hey, we have this and we want to share it with a reporter," Mook said.

The government asked Mook if Clinton approved "the dissemination" of the data to the media.

"She agreed," Mook testified.
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In testimony on Tuesday afternoon, FBI Special Agent Scott Hellman also said the data revealing the alleged covert communications channel between Trump and Russia that Sussmann brought to the FBI turned out to be untrue, and said he did not agree with the narrative.

Hellman testified that whoever drafted the narrative describing the DNS data was "5150," and clarified on the stand that meant he believed the individual who came to the conclusions "was suffering from some mental disability."

[–] Satan2016 (23490) 2 years ago

National Review reports of the case:

The former FBI general counsel said that he would have treated the meeting and subsequent investigation differently had he known Sussmann was coming forward on behalf of the Clinton campaign.

The evidence that Sussmann delivered to Baker came in the form of Domain Name System (DNS) data that allegedly showed frequent communications between servers associated with the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank. The data was provided to Sussmann by Joffe, an executive at the cybersecurity firm Neustar, which was also being represented by Sussmann as part of his role as a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm.

FBI agent Scott Hellman testified Tuesday that he was immediately skeptical of the data and accompanying analysis that suggested illicit communications between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank. In fact, the quality of the analysis was so poor, that Hellman questioned whether its source had a “mental disability” in a private chat with FBI colleagues, obtained by prosecutors.

Opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which Perkins Coie hired to work on behalf of the Clinton campaign, translated the DNS data into laymen’s terms and pitched it to various reporters, including Franklin Foer, a writer for Slate.

“We certainly hoped that he would publish an article,” former Fusion GPS employee Lauren Seago testified.

Foer obliged them, touting the claims in an article published on October 31, 2016, a little over a week before Election Day.

[–] immattj (4042) 2 years ago

Fake news.

[–] Satan2016 (23490) 2 years ago

Says a lying retarded troll.

[–] ProgsReturn (1772) 2 years ago

So why are all the major news sites reporting it?

[–] UncleRuckis (2556) 2 years ago

Lock her up...for slinging mud at a political opponent during an election? She'd be sharing a cell with most people who've ever ran for office.

[–] immattj (4042) 2 years ago

Fat Donnie would be on death row for what he did if that was the case.

[–] Satan2016 (23490) 2 years ago

Much more than "mud slinging". Huge conspiracy between DNC and MSM to promote serious lies like this. When honest people call them out Social Media bans them.

[–] yatzo376 (7466) 2 years ago

You’re insane

[–] immattj (4042) 2 years ago

Satan is profoundly to severely mentally retarded, but not necessarily insane.

[–] UncleRuckis (2556) 2 years ago

Again, this is essentially a political team doing opposition research(standard) on the opposing candidate and leaking whatever dirt they find to the press in order to gain an advantage. That's not a bombshell revelation, that's every campaign ever!