GOP lawmakers hammered former Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton">Hillary Clinton</a> after her former campaign manager <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-clinton-campaign-official-robby-mook-says-hillary-clinton-approved-handing-alfa-bank-claims-to-media-despite-doubts">revealed her central role in disseminating false claims</a> about former President Donald Trump and Russia’s Alfa-Bank during the 2016 presidential election.
Court testimony in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sussmann-trial-opens-lawyers-spar-over-defendants-2016-lie-to-fbi">the trial of cybersecurity attorney Michael Sussmann</a> revealed that Clinton personally approved the dissemination of later-debunked claims of a secret backchannel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa-Bank to the press. Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager, Robby Mook, said that the Clinton campaign’s evidence of the backchannel was dubious, but Clinton approved sending it to reporters anyway.
“Hillary Clinton and Jake Sullivan knew the Trump-Russia collusion dossier was false but pretended to play dumb with the American people,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1527739050039328768">said</a>. Sullivan, currently the White House national security adviser, worked on Clinton’s 2016 campaign as a senior policy adviser.
“Everyone involved in cooking up the false Trump-Russian collusion narrative should be held fully accountable — including Hillary Clinton,” she <a href="https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1528740582348271618">added</a>.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said in a radio interview over the weekend that Mook’s testimony is a “major scandal” and has shown that Clinton’s involvement in the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory is greater than previously known, according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/22/sen-johnson-says-sussmann-trial-reveals-clinton-corruption/">The New York Post</a>.
“They used individuals who had contracts with our Defense Department to mine this data and develop some kind of inference that Trump was colluding with Russia so that they could report that to the FBI [which could then] … report that to the American public as an October surprise,” Johnson said.
Special counsel John Durham has argued that Sussmann went to the FBI on behalf of the Clinton campaign to generate a federal investigation into Trump’s alleged connections to Alfa-Bank, and in the process, make the Alfa-Bank story more palatable to reporters. Sussmann, charged with lying to the FBI about representing the Clinton campaign during a 2016 meeting pitching the Alfa-Bank material, has claimed he did not attempt to hide his client despite texting then-FBI general counsel James Baker the day before the meeting <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/durham-trial-baker-100-confident-sussmann-told-him-he-was-acting-alone">requesting</a> that he was not acting on behalf of anyone, according to Baker.
The Clinton campaign used server data gathered by tech executive Rodney Joffe, who had contracted with the federal government to advise it on cybersecurity, to evidence its claim of a backchannel. Both the FBI and CIA <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/fbi-agent-at-sussmann-trial-bureau-rejected-alfa-bank-claims-within-days">looked</a> into the server data and dismissed it as any evidence of a secret backchannel.
“The fact that the Hillary Clinton campaign manufactured this entire Russian collusion hoax and the FBI … concluded that this is preposterous — it’s BS … And yet they set up the Mueller probe,” Johnson said. “Hillary Clinton on the issue of Alfa Bank said, ‘I just heard about this on the news.’ No! Their campaign planted it in the news, and, of course, those news outlets that had the story.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, hammered Clinton in a radio interview last week.
“You get [Fusion GPS co-founder] Glenn Simpson to peddle it to the press. You get Michael Sussmann, who’s working for you as your campaign lawyer, to take it to the FBI. And then you act like, oh, we don’t know where this came from,” Jordan <a href="https://radio.foxnews.com/2022/05/20/rep-jim-jordan-the-fbi-must-have-known-about-the-latest-bombshell-revelation-regarding-hillary-clinton-and-her-2016-campaign/">said</a>. “We were the ones supposedly peddling disinformation and making things up when in fact, it was them who did it all along. And frankly, the only thing we were kind of wrong about was it was a little bit worse than we even thought. Everyone was in on this.”

Hillary Clinton

‘Should Be Held Fully Accountable’: Republicans Hammer Clinton For Peddling False Russia Collusion Claims

Republicans Hammer Clinton For Peddling False Russia Collusion Claims

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Elon Musk, embroiled in his own scandal that he has dubbed &#8220;Elongate,&#8221; jumped into the &#8220;Russiagate&#8221; story that has now found its way into a federal courtroom.
Over the weekend, Musk called out as a &#8220;hoax&#8221; a tweet that two-time loser Hillary Clinton posted shortly before the 2016 presidential election.
“Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank,” Clinton wrote in the October 31, 2016, tweet, which included a lengthy note from one of her then-top aides, Jake Sullivan, who now serves as President Joe Biden&#8217; national security adviser.
&#8220;This could be the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and Moscow. Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank,&#8221; Sullivan wrote. &#8220;This secret hotline may be the key to unlocking the mystery of Trump&#8217;s ties to Russia. It certainly seems the Trump Organization felt it had something to hide, given that it apparently took steps to conceal the link when it was discovered by journalists.&#8221;
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Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. <a href="https://t.co/8f8n9xMzUU">pic.twitter.com/8f8n9xMzUU</a>
&mdash; Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/793250312119263233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2016</a></blockquote>
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A user on Twitter asked Musk on Friday evening if he planned to crack down on disinformation if his deal to purchase Twitter is finalized.
“I would be interested to know if, when you receive control over the company, anything was done with this at any level. Pls advise soonest,” the user wrote to Musk.
&#8220;You are absolutely correct. That tweet is a Clinton campaign hoax for which their campaign lawyer is undergoing a criminal trial,&#8221; Musk wrote,  linking to a story from the BBC story about the ongoing trial of Michael Sussmann, who served as an attorney for the Clinton campaign in 2016.
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You are absolutely correct. That tweet is a Clinton campaign hoax for which their campaign lawyer is undergoing a criminal trial. <a href="https://t.co/avtjEdthmA">https://t.co/avtjEdthmA</a>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1527720691264520192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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As part of special prosecutor John Durham&#8217;s probe into the case, he charged Sussmann with lying to the FBI when he met with an agent about former President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia. Durham and his team of prosecutors say Sussmann “manipulated” the agency in an effort to alter the outcome of the election.
During the trial last week, Clinton&#8217;s campaign manager testified that Clinton personally authorized her campaign to share computer data &#8212; which has since been debunked &#8212; that purportedly linked Trump with a Russian bank.
Robby Mook, her 2016 campaign manager who testified as a defense witness for Sussmann, said he spoke with Clinton about the supposed link, and said the discussion went like, “Hey, we have this and we want to share it with a reporter,&#8221; he said.
“She agreed to that,” he said.
In his sworn testimony, Mook also acknowledged that the campaign didn&#8217;t know if the data was true. &#8220;Part of the point of giving it to a reporter was they could run it down further,&#8221; he said.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

Clinton Testifies On Benghazi Attack

Musk Calls Out 2016 Hillary Clinton Tweet As ‘Campaign Hoax’

Billionaire Elon Musk Calls Out 2016 Hillary Clinton Tweet As 'Campaign Hoax' As Part of Russiagate

Elon Musk

Hoax

Twitter

Former top Hillary Clinton lieutenant Robby Mook did his old boss few favors in court Friday, testifying that Clinton knew the Alfa-Bank claims lacked solid evidence while also reading into evidence a Clinton tweet thought to be barred from admission into the trial.
Mook testified in a federal court in Washington, D.C., in the trial of cybersecurity attorney Michael Sussmann. Sussmann is accused of lying to a top FBI official during a September 2016 meeting in which he made false claims about a purported backchannel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa-Bank.
During the 2016 presidential election, Mook served as former Clinton’s campaign manager. Sussmann was then an attorney at Perkins Coie, which contracted with the Clinton campaign as its general counsel.
During his Friday testimony, Mook said that Clinton herself approved sharing the false claims against the Trump Organization and former President Donald Trump with the media, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hillary-clinton-approved-trump-russian-bank-allegations-sussmann-trial">Fox News</a>.
Mook said that at the time, the campaign knew the evidence against Trump was shaky, but campaign officials thought a reporter could investigate and potentially substantiate the claims. He said he discussed the issue at the time with Campaign Chairman John Podesta, Senior Policy Advisor Jake Sullivan, and Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri.
Mook also ran the plan by Clinton, who signed off pushing the collusion claims despite the relatively weak evidence. Mook <a href="https://twitter.com/JFHaughey58/status/1527689556803342336">said</a> that he and other top campaign officials agreed not to alert the FBI to claims because of the shaky basis, however.
“I discussed it with Hillary as well,” Mook testified. “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.”
“She agreed,” he said.
The admission speaks to special counsel John Durham’s theory of the case, which <a href="https://www.justice.gov/sco/press-release/file/1433511/download">posits</a> that the false Alfa-Bank claims were pushed by the Clinton campaign in order to hurt her political opponent at the time, Trump. The theory continues that Sussmann lied to the FBI in order to spark an investigation that could make the Alfa-Bank story more palatable to the press.
At another point in his testimony, Mook also read off an October 31, 2016, tweet from Clinton’s account featuring a statement from Sullivan, was at that time her senior policy adviser. The tweet and statement was touting a <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/10/was_a_server_registered_to_the_trump_organization_communicating_with_russia.html">story</a> from Slate that had come out earlier that day reporting on the alleged connection between the Trump Organization and Alfa-Bank.
“Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank,” Clinton said in the tweet. Mook <a href="https://twitter.com/adamgoldmanNYT/status/1527681904425807872">testified</a> that he did not know if Clinton drafted the tweet herself.
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Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. <a href="https://t.co/8f8n9xMzUU">pic.twitter.com/8f8n9xMzUU</a>
&mdash; Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/793250312119263233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2016</a></blockquote>
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The Clinton tweet was thought to be excluded from the trial. Judge Christopher Cooper had blocked the tweet from coming in as evidence in pretrial arguments between prosecutors and defense attorneys. Cooper allowed the tweet into evidence on Friday, however, after Mook read it off to the jury.
Mook testified that the Slate story <a href="https://twitter.com/adamgoldmanNYT/status/1527682730036760578">bolstered</a> the campaign’s belief in the Alfa-Bank claims because they took the publication of the story to mean its details had been vetted by a news outlet.

Top Clinton Campaign Official Robby Mook Says Hillary Clinton Approved Handing Alfa-Bank Claims To Media Despite Doubts

Robby Mook Says Hillary Clinton Approved Handing Alfa-Bank Claims To Media Despite Doubts

Washington D.C.

Last night&#8217;s Iowa caucuses debacle was nothing less than a catastrophe for the Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee. &#8220;You had one job,&#8221; as the <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-had-one-job">popular meme</a> goes, and the Iowa Democratic Party failed did not merely fail that job — it exhibited the kind of reckless and gross incompetence that would be merely embarrassing were it not for the rather Orwellian fact that these are the same people who want to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-the-democrat-party-cant-run-its-own-primary-but-wants-to-run-the-health-care-system">nationalize and control our health care</a>. As of this moment, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-to-watch-for-during-tonights-iowa-caucuses">politicos across the country</a> are still waiting with bated breath for official results from last night&#8217;s caucuses.
The Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) has issued a preliminary official response, as The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ashe Schow <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iowa-democrats-on-caucus-debacle-we-gotta-learn-to-code">reported</a> this morning:
<blockquote>As precinct caucus results started coming in, the IDP ran them through an accuracy and quality check. It became clear that there were inconsistencies with the reports. The underlying cause of these inconsistencies was not immediately clear, and required investigation, which took time.
As this investigation unfolded, IDP staff activated pre-planned backup measures and entered data manually. This took longer than expected.
As part of our investigation, we determined with certainty that the underlying data collected via the app was sound. While the app was recording data accurately, it was reporting out only partial data. We have determined that this was due to a coding issue in the reporting system. This issue was identified and fixed. The application’s reporting issue did not impact the ability of precinct chairs to report data accurately.</blockquote>
That underlying app, it turns out, was developed, in large part, with the failed 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign&#8217;s campaign manager, <a href="https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1224541115241680902">Robby Mook</a>. Some Democrats and leftists last night were indeed quick to blame Mook for their party&#8217;s Hawkeye State woes.
&#8220;I’ve always felt like Robby Mook didn’t get enough credit for his part in tanking Hillary’s campaign but now knowing he was behind this failed Iowa app I’m positive he was fully responsible for tanking Hillary’s campaign,&#8221; tweeted Mashable&#8217;s Matt Binder.
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I’ve always felt like Robby Mook didn’t get enough credit for his part in tanking Hillary’s campaign but now knowing he was behind this failed Iowa app I’m positive he was fully responsible for tanking Hillary’s campaign
&mdash; Matt Binder (@MattBinder) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1224540937138966528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Now, as of this morning, we know that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initially reached out to the IDP to see if the state party wanted any help with vetting the new technology. The IDP, in turn, brazenly refused the feds&#8217; request.
&#8220;Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf says the Iowa Democrat[ic] Party declined to have their new caucus app vetted by the department,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/dhs-sec-chad-wolf-democrats-iowa-clinton-app">reports</a>. &#8220;Appearing on &#8216;Fox &amp; Friends&#8217; with co-host Steve Doocy, Wolf said that the DHS cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency had offered to test the app from a &#8216;hacking perspective,&#8217; but the party had declined.&#8221;
&#8220;They declined and so we are seeing a couple of issues with it,&#8221; Wolf added, according to the outlet.
Heather Swift, officials spokesperson for DHS, also corroborated Wolf&#8217;s on-air narrative.
&#8220;Homeland Security&#8217;s [Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency] offered to test the Iowa Caucus app,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;They declined. See [Acting Secretary Wolf] interview,&#8221; she added, linking to Wolf&#8217;s &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; appearance.
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Homeland Security&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/CISAgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CISAgov</a> offered to test the Iowa Caucus app. They declined. See <a href="https://twitter.com/DHS_Wolf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DHS_Wolf</a> interview <a href="https://t.co/GoQeEMZbuJ">https://t.co/GoQeEMZbuJ</a>
&mdash; ARCHIVED DHS Spokesperson (@SpoxDHS) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpoxDHS/status/1224684831558324225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Suffice it to say this is not exactly the start the Democratic Party wanted for its campaign to defeat President Donald Trump this November.

Chad Wolf

DHS Acting Secretary: Iowa Democratic Party Refused Help Testing Failed Caucus App

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An email from the WikiLeaks collection of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta alleges that Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook covered up sexual harassment allegations made against another staffer because he was a friend of his.
The anti-secrecy organization tweeted out the email on Tuesday, which was previously available but flew under the radar. Post-Weinstein, the allegations in the email are now drawing more attention.
In the tweet, WikiLeaks linked to the email and wrote, &#8220;Top Clinton aid &#8216;cornered women&#8217; for sex and was protected by campaign manager Robby Mook according to accusations in January 2015 email <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/metoo?src=hash">#metoo</a>.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Top Clinton aid &#8220;cornered women&#8221; for sex and was protected by campaign manager Robby Mook according to accusations in January 2015 email <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/metoo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#metoo</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZTPsTfqsU0">https://t.co/ZTPsTfqsU0</a> <a href="https://t.co/lFnnFjV3ps">pic.twitter.com/lFnnFjV3ps</a>
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) <a href="https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/948300157673725952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The email from U.S. News &amp; World Report senior political writer David Catanese was sent to a woman named Mara Lee Durrell, who appears to have been <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/maralee/">heavily involved</a> in leadership positions for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign in the state of Nevada. The email reads:
<blockquote>Hi Mara,
Thanks for getting back to me on Facebook and providing your e-mail; I do appreciate it.
This is a bit of a sensitive topic, so forgive me if my questions are general in nature as I&#8217;m only responding to a tip, but feel obligated to follow through.
I was recently contacted by a source who claims to have worked on the 2008 Hillary Clinton campaign and is alleging that Marlon Marshall made unwelcome sexual advances and propositions towards women on the campaign repeatedly. The allegation is that he would &#8220;corner women, make them uncomfortable and make suggestions about having sex.&#8221;
The source encouraged me to contact women who worked under him in the Nevada office.
I was wondering if you were able to describe your experience with Marshall and if any of this rings true, with you or anyone else you know who worked there. The source also claims that Robby Mook was made aware of the issue, but declined to act on it or intervene because he is personal friends with Marshall. Do you know if there is any truth to this?
Again, my apologies for the personal nature of the questions, but it is information that was recently provided to me.
If there&#8217;s any light you can shed on this, whether there&#8217;s truth to it, or if it&#8217;s completely off base, I would appreciate that. I understand the sensitive nature of the allegations so am happy to protect your identity at this point, unless you feel otherwise compelled to speak out.
Thank you for your time.</blockquote>
Marshall was a &#8220;special assistant to President Obama and the principal deputy director of the Office of Public Engagement at the White House,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/fashion/weddings/stacy-berger-and-marlon-marshall.html">The New York Times</a>. Marshall also served as &#8220;the director of state campaigns and political engagement for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign,&#8221; <a href="https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/wikileaks-clinton-campaign-manager-may-ignored-sexual-harrassment/">LifeZette</a> reported, adding that Catanese was unable to substantiate the claims.
A brief search of the WikiLeaks database did not yield any more emails on the matter. Mook did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.

Former Hillary Campaign Manager Accused Of Protecting Staffer Who Sexually Harassed Women

Barack Obama

Sexual Misconduct

On Monday night, stoking the political flames among Hillary Clinton supporters who have refused to admit she was the weakest Democratic presidential candidate in recent memory, former campaign manager for Hillary Clinton, Robby Mook, intimated Clinton could run for president again in 2020.
Appearing on MSNBC&#8217;s For The Record With Greta to discuss Russia&#8217;s possible efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, Mook responded to host Greta Van Susteren&#8217;s suggestion that Clinton&#8217;s public appearance in Pennsylvania over St. Patrick&#8217;s Day weekend was a harbinger of a presidential bid yet to come.
Mook posited, &#8220;Putin did not want her to become president.&#8221;
Van Susteren <a href="https://grabien.com/file.php?id=176563&amp;searchorder=date">asked</a>, &#8220;&#8220;Secretary Clinton was in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Friday on St. Patrick&#8217;s day. So everyone&#8217;s buzzing. What are the odds of her running again?&#8221;
Mook would not rule out the possibility, laughing, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to let her answer for that.&#8221;
Van Susteren persisted, &#8220;Do you want to guess?&#8221;
Mook replied, &#8220;I think what happens right now, we&#8217;ve got to get to the bottom of what happened in 2016 then we can start worrying about the next cycle. But we&#8217;ve got to make sure that this cannot happen again in two years or four years to anybody else.&#8221;
Van Susteren also <a href="https://grabien.com/file.php?id=176561">asked</a> about Clinton&#8217;s response to the furor over possible Russian involvement in the campaign, saying, &#8220;What was Secretary Clinton saying during the time or during the whole lead-up to the election with all this?&#8221;
Mook answered:
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I think she was trying to focus on communicating her message. You know, she had important things to say about how we create jobs, improve education in this country, help a lot of these families that were really struggling and really frustrated with the way things are, start to get ahead in their lives. And all we were doing some days was just dealing with all this incoming. What the Russians tried to do was enormously successful. The point is not always just to spread oppo, it&#8217;s to spread misinformation.
</blockquote>
Van Susteren continued, &#8220;Or you might just wonder when the next shoe is going to drop so you&#8217;re sitting there waiting.&#8221;
Mook concluded, &#8220;Sure. It was intended to create anxiety within our campaign organization. And kudos to our team. They did a great job just focusing and pushing forward every day. But in order for our democracy to work, we have to have an honest exchange of ideas and facts need to be relevant and people need to have access to facts and what this is doing is just literally taking our &#8212; the apparatus and weaponizing it against itself.&#8221;

LOL: Top Hillary Advisor Says She Might Run Against Trump In 2020

On ABC&#8217;s This Week, Hillary Clinton&#8217;s presidential campaign manager Robby Mook claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin directed Russia&#8217;s intelligence apparatus to hack the email accounts of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Clinton loyalist John Podesta in order to politically assist then presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Joining Trump&#8217;s first presidential campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in a discussion hosted by Jonathan Karl, Mook pushed innuendo of cooperation between Trump and Putin to subvert America&#8217;s presidential election:

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&#8220;Paul Manafort&#8217;s connections to the Russians are clear. They paid him a lot of money to help get candidates elected that they wanted in the Ukraine. It&#8217;s not surprising to me that they might be trying the same thing here in the United States.
And what&#8217;s particularly frightening to me about the situation is that these phone calls that Trump associates had with Russian agents were picked up because the NSA taps these Russian agents regularly. This isn&#8217;t speculation. These are phone calls that were actually picked up. And what&#8217;s also scary is that you saw the president kind of deflect the question. He won&#8217;t answer it. And the more we learn about this, the closer and closer it gets to President Trump.&#8221;
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Asked by Karl if he believed the &#8220;Trump campaign was coordinating with the Russians,&#8221; Mook called for a &#8220;9/11-style bipartisan independent commission&#8221; to investigate. &#8220;This can never happen again,&#8221; he added.
Mook alleged that Putin assisted Trump&#8217;s political campaign due to resentment of Clinton&#8217;s &#8220;courage&#8221; in speaking out against Russian belligerence in Ukraine&#8217; Crimean peninsula:

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MOOK: But this is the problem, Jonathan, is blame the victim. It&#8217;s to say, OK, well, in fact the Russians stole John Podesta&#8217;s e-mails. They put them out for the purpose of hurting Hillary Clinton. That&#8217;s absolutely correct. And my point is &#8212; and I think the point of the national intelligence community and everybody else &#8212; is that&#8217;s wrong. We cannot have foreign governments interceding in our elections.
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TRUMP: Does anybody really think that Hillary Clinton would be tougher on Russia than Donald Trump? Does anybody in this room really believe that, OK?
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KARL:: You weren&#8217;t in room but I imagine you think that.
MOOK: I absolutely think that. You know, the reason Vladimir Putin did this is because Hillary Clinton spoke out against him. She spoke out against frankly the same kind of behavior that we&#8217;re starting to hear Donald Trump hint at. And when Donald Trump has been asked about Vladimir Putin, he&#8217;s praised him. He&#8217;s called him a strong leader. Gave him an A rating. When he was asked on the O&#8217;Reilly show about Putin&#8217;s tactics of killing journalists, of intimidating journalists, of locking up and killing his opponents, he said that &#8212; you know, he compared that to America. He said we&#8217;re not that innocent either. 
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The problem is that Vladimiur Putin devastates and destroys his enemies. He&#8217;s been devastating and destroying the Syrian people. And Hillary Clinton spoke out against that. She had the courage to do that and she paid a price because Vladimir Putin interceded in this election.
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Mook repeated his narrative on Twitter:
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Still need an independent, bi-partisan commission like we had to get the facts on 9-11.
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Several times throughout the segment, Karl pushed the <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/19/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-blames-russia-putin-wikileaks-rele/">Clinton campaign&#8217;s narrative</a> of consensus among all national intelligence agencies that Russia was behind the hacking into and release of emails from the DNC and Podesta, asking Lewandowski, &#8220;But you don&#8217;t doubt that the e-mails, the hacking of the e-mails, that was done by the Russians?&#8221;

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Mook: Clinton Punished By Putin Because Of Her ‘Courage’

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Corey Lewandowski

Jonathan Karl

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Vladimir Putin

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Hillary Clinton campaign manager, Robby Mook, did his dead-level best to steer Chris Wallace away from the fact that Clinton and John Podesta blatantly lied when they claimed FBI Director James Comey only informed House Republicans about the new email investigation.
First, Wallace played a clip from Friday evening in which Hillary Clinton said: &#8220;If they&#8217;re going to be sending this kind of letter that is only going originally to Republican members of the House, they need to share whatever facts they claim to have with the American people.&#8221; Then, the following exchange occurred between the two:
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WALLACE: &#8220;Robby, why would she say something that is so flatly untrue? I have a copy here&#8211;it&#8217;s not very long&#8211;it&#8217;s the letter that Comey sent to Congress. On the front page, it&#8217;s got the eight Republican chairman of the committee. If you just turn it over, next page, you&#8217;ve got the eight top Democrats on the committee. Why would she say that it was just sent to the Republicans when, in fact, it was sent to the Republicans and Democrats?&#8221;
MOOK: &#8220;You know, Chris, this has been really overhyped&#8211;&#8220;
WALLACE: &#8220;Well she said it. I didn&#8217;t.&#8221;
MOOK: &#8220;We were all surprised by this letter. She looked at the front page&#8211;and as you just said yourself&#8211;on the front page of that memo, it lists those Republican chairs. Were the Democrats cc&#8217;d at the end of the letter? Absolutely. She looked at the front page of the letter. She has acknowledged, we&#8217;ve all acknowledged, this was sent to everybody.&#8221;
</blockquote>
Mook then pivoted, and complained at length that the FBI hasn&#8217;t specified what information has been found, or if such information would warrant a new investigation. Chris Wallace wasn&#8217;t having it, pulling Mook right back to the center of the bullseye.
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WALLACE: &#8220;But Robby, I want to make one more point about this letter. You say it&#8217;s hyped. Comey sent the letter at about 1 p.m. Eastern time on Friday. Your campaign chairman, John Podesta, put out a statement at 3:45 p.m. in which he made exactly the same charge that this letter had been sent &#8216;just&#8217; to the Republicans, not to the Democrats.
Three hours and fifteen minutes later, Hillary Clinton makes the same charge. This was a talking point of your campaign, and frankly, it was a dishonest talking point.&#8221;
</blockquote>
Mook spun away, saying: &#8220;Chris, if your question is that if Democratic leaders were cc&#8217;d on that letter, the answer is absolutely yes.&#8221; He then went right back to questioning Comey&#8217;s motives, and wondering why the FBI hasn&#8217;t made public what it knows.
Here&#8217;s the full <a href="https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/statements/2016/10/28/%25e2%2580%258bstatement-from-john-podesta-in-response-to-fbi-letter-to-gop-congressional-chairmen/">Podesta statement</a> in which he mentions House Republicans twice, but not Democrats, as tweeted by team Clinton&#8217;s Rob Flaherty:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/johnpodesta">@johnpodesta</a>: &#8220;The Director owes it to the American people to immediately provide the full details of what he is now examining.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/lEXcZCm6yi">pic.twitter.com/lEXcZCm6yi</a>
&#8212; Rob Flaherty (@Rob_Flaherty) <a href="https://twitter.com/Rob_Flaherty/status/792090866785615872">October 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
It wasn&#8217;t only Clinton and Podesta who conveniently omitted Democrats from the situation. Clinton press secretary, Brian Fallon, tweeted the following at 4:37 p.m. Friday:
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Both campaigns now agree Director Comey needs to put forward more information about what prompted this letter to GOP chairmen.
&#8212; Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianefallon/status/792102937023619074">October 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
Clinton has since referred to the letter as &#8220;put out by the FBI,&#8221; though she still never mentions House Democrats.
This is a master class in spin. Although it seems like a stunningly trivial matter, every action&#8211;even the most minute&#8211;leads to a proportional reaction. By leaving out the fact that House Democrats were sent the letter at the same time as House Republicans, it makes FBI Director Comey appear more partisan than he may actually be. This, in turn, gives pro-Clinton journalists and supporters the opportunity to amplify the notion that this is no more than a political hit job.
Mook said &#8220;we&#8217;ve all acknowledged,&#8221; that the FBI letter was sent to House Democrats as well as Republicans. The use of the phrase &#8220;we&#8217;ve all&#8221; is deliberately nebulous. To whom is he referring? No one can say for sure, and that&#8217;s exactly the point. He himself only admitted as much under intense pressure from Chris Wallace.
However, what matters is the immediate response from Clinton and her campaign surrogates because that&#8217;s what receives the most media coverage. Clinton&#8217;s first response omitted Democrats; Podesta&#8217;s first response omitted Democrats; Fallon&#8217;s tweet omitted Democrats; these are the statements that will be played and read repeatedly because they came first.
To be fair, House Republicans were the leaders of the email investigation. However, it&#8217;s not as if the Democrats weren&#8217;t involved. It was a bi-partisan panel.
In the end, what most people will remember is that FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to &#8220;Republicans&#8221; telling them he was opening up the investigation. This will allow people to believe and repeat the idea that Comey&#8217;s actions were partisan nonsense, when in reality, such a thing is far from provable.
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Team Clinton Plays Word Games When Talking About the FBI Letter to Deceive the American Public

Chris Wallace

Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign manager Robby Mook claimed there is &#8220;no evidence&#8221; that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) or his team funded or directed professional left-wing agitators to foment violence at Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign events. 

In a Sunday interview with left-wing CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper on State of the Union, Mook was asked about James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas investigation revealing connections between left-wing agitators inciting violence at Trump&#8217;s rallies, the DNC, Clinton&#8217;s campaign, and pro-Clinton super PACs.

Mook derisively described the Project Veritas video as &#8220;edited,&#8221; adding that the &#8220;full context&#8221; of the investigation&#8217;s targets&#8217; statements was therefore unknown.

A partial transcript is below:
 
<blockquote>
Tapper: We talked about this before the last debate, but two Democratic operatives, Robert Creamer and Scott Foval were caught on tape talking about instigating violence at a Trump rally in Foval&#8217;s case. The last time we spoke, you said any violence is unacceptable. Have you looked into whether or not Democratic operatives paid by the Democratic National Committee were actually instigating these horrific actions, these violent actions we saw at Trump rallies. That&#8217;s, I mean, I&#8217;m sure you would agree, if that&#8217;s true, that&#8217;s really offensive.

Mook: Well, violence is unacceptable. These individuals no longer have any relationship with the DNC. They&#8217;ve never had a relationship with the Clinton campaign, and my understanding is that the events that are references happened in February of last year, they did not have a contract with the DNC until June. But putting all that aside, this was again, a video that was leaked out for the purpose of damaging the campaign. It was edited, so we don&#8217;t know what the full context is, and there is no evidence whatsoever that we have been able to find that anyone ever did anything like this when they were working for the DNC.
</blockquote>
Last week, Project Veritas released <a href="https://d1sb17b1leotpq.cloudfront.net/rigging-election-video-i-clinton-campaign-and-dnc-incite-violence-trump-rallies.html">video</a> of its undercover investigation revealing professional direction and funding of left-wing agitators to foment violence at Trump rallies. The agitators are revealed to be linked with the DNC, Clinton&#8217;s campaign, and super PACs aligned with Clinton.
Tapper and the rest of his CNN colleagues have refused to interview O&#8217;Keefe or his team in relation to its investigation.

CNN attempted to <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/18/politics/project-veritas-action-robert-creamer-donald-trump-rallies/">cast doubt</a> on the Project Veritas revelations, using weasel words and unsourced claims. An article about the investigation written in part by Drew Griffin asserts: &#8220;In the past, O&#8217;Keefe and his Project Veritas Action have been criticized for strategically editing footage to create false accusations about people or groups.&#8221; No information is provided regarding the source(s) of the criticism or of its veracity.

For its part, CNN has run <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/12/politics/donald-trump-protester-rally/">article</a> after <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/14/politics/donald-trump-rally-protester-attack/">article</a> after <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/14/politics/donald-trump-rally-protester-attack/">article</a> after <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/04/media/new-york-times-trump-rally-video/">article</a> after <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/14/opinions/trump-violence-cupp/">article</a> after <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/politics/reagan-daughter-blasts-trump/">article</a> after <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/10/media/donald-trump-rallies-violence/">article</a> depicting Trump as inciting violence at his own rallies. Hundreds of hours have been spent by CNN and other left-wing television news outlets pushing the same narrative of Trump as an instigator of violence and of his supporters as prone to violence. Left-wing media outlets such as CNN have refused to investigate the dimension of professional agitators, instead serving as their communications arm.

CNN continues to present itself as an objective, non-partisan, and unbiased news organization.
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Mook Denies Directing Violent Agitators

Jake Tapper

State of the Union

Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign manager Robby Mook refused to clearly deny coordination between his team and a number of women that have accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing them.

Joining left-wing CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper for an interview on Sunday&#8217;s State of the Union, Mook said he was &#8220;unaware&#8221; of any contact between the Clinton campaign and the accusers. Most of the accusers made their allegations in recent weeks, in the form of an &#8220;October Surprise.&#8221;

A partial transcript is below.

<blockquote>
Tapper: Donald Trump says that your campaign or the Democratic National Committee are behind the accusations against him of sexual misconduct. I know Secretary Clinton said yesterday the charge is inaccurate. But let me put it more narrowly: Have any of these women had any contact with your campaign or the DNC?

Mook: These accusations are not coming from our campaign.

Tapper: But had they had any contact?

Mook: Not that I am aware of. I do not know about any contact.
</blockquote>
Mook refused to deny that the Clinton campaign had coordinated a series of accusations of sexual abuse against Trump y a series of women. Tapper neglected to ask if the women were compensated in any way to make false allegations against Trump in order to further the left-wing &#8220;War on Women&#8221; narrative directed against its opponents.

The timing of the accusations prohibits the likelihood of confidently determining their veracity before November 8, which is not accidental.

Mook advised Trump to &#8220;apologize and move on,&#8221; essentially recommending a strategy of accepting the veracity of the claims of his accusers for political advantage.

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Mook Won’t Deny Clinton Campaign Direction Of Trump’s Accusers

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