Posted on 05/20/2022 1:59:02 PM PDT by blam
Former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook dropped a bombshell in court on Friday – testifying that Hillary Clinton approved the dissemination of allegations that then-candidate Donald Trump had a covert communications channel with a Russian bank, despite campaign officials not being “totally confident” in the rumor, according to Fox News.
Mook, who was called to the stand by the defense team for former Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann, was asked under cross-examination about the campaign’s understanding of the allegations against Trump, and whether the campaign planned to release it to the media.
He told prosecutor Andrew DeFillippis that he was first briefed by campaign general counsel Marc Elias, who was a partner with Perkins Coie at the time, adding that he was told the data had come from “people that had expertise in this sort of matter.”
Mook said the campaign was not totally confident in the legitimacy of the data, but had hoped to give the information to a reporter who could further “run it down” to determine if it was “accurate” or “substantive.”
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. -Fox News
“I discussed it with Hillary as well,” said Mook, who added “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.”
When asked how Clinton responded, Mook said: “She agreed.“
And then she did this:
Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. pic.twitter.com/8f8n9xMzUU
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 1, 2016
Of note, after previously denying the prosecutions request to include the tweet into evidence, he approved it on Friday.
Sussman has been charged with lying to the FBI when he told General Counsel James Baker in September 2016 – less than two months before the US election – that he wasn’t doing work “for any client” when he presented the Alfa Bank “purported data and ‘white papers’ that allegedly demonstrated a covert communicates channel” between the Trump organization and the Kremlin-linked Alfa Bank.
Special Counsel John Durham alleges that Sussman was in fact working for the Clinton Campaign and tech executive Rodney Joffe. He has pleaded not guilty.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
EVERYONE in DC knew this was a Hillary hit job by June of 2017 and the GOP assisted the Democrats to keep it going for much longer.
No surprise. Certainly no “bombshell.” Not even a broken law.
If it isn’t deemed mis/dis/mal-information....... No consequences.
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Put that bitch under oath.
Doesn’t matter. DC and MSM will rally around to defend her awfulness.
Is the origin of this story in question to you?
This was a coup to steal the Presidency. She needs to be brought up on treason charges.
Mook was the guy on election night that Hillary allegedly threw an ash tray at,I believe, when reality set in she had lost.
QED:
LOCK
HER
UP
Pro tip to Mook - stay out of Fort Marcy Park
I agree. People here are dismissing this, but it is the smoking gun that ties Hillary and her political party to everything in this story.
I’m not sure it would be treason, but she is certainly criminally liable for her part in this plot.
Lock her up.... after she’s perp-walked up and down Pennsylvania Ave. in handcuffs.
This is the first admission under oath directly linking Hillary to the Steele dossier I believe.
No wonder this had to occur on a Friday.
Moreso than the content.
....intently read this article, word for word....my reaction was......YAWN.....nothing will ever EVER happen to this harridan....she is coated with Teflon (tm).......sad to say but them’s tha facts, you sukkers......
They just updated the entry sign to Fort Marcy on the George Washington Parkway. LOL!
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