Posted on 06/30/2017 2:54:19 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
Peter W. Smith portrayed the former general as an ally in an effort, independent of the Trump campaign, to find personal emails deleted by Hillary Clinton
WASHINGTONBefore the 2016 presidential election, a longtime Republican opposition researcher mounted an independent campaign to obtain emails he believed were stolen from Hillary Clintons private server, likely by Russian hackers.
In conversations with members of his circle and with others he tried to recruit to help him, the GOP operative, Peter W. Smith, implied he was working with retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn.
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I think this is cool. Someone has them.
How would getting Hillary’s deleted emails constitute “interference with the election”? And what would be illegal about it?
And, if “he” was the one making a claim about connections to Flynn, so what? Does that he was actually in any way connected to Flynn?
No, that makes him a name dropper. Lot’s of people play that game.
Hey I thought this story was first reported by another news outlet. Is the wsj part of the fake news consortium?
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