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.
I’m going to Starbucks.
If you are talking about the Big Steal, yes, it was completely bipartisan.
In a reasonable world, that might be the response.
But while this isn’t a reasonable world and probably nothing very dramatic will happen to Hillary, this was seriously damning and undermines the whole narrative. She thought people were going to throw themselves under the bus for her...and they didn’t.
I don’t know why she thought this, because all accounts say that she was a nasty, horrible boss and nobody liked her. But she lives in her own world of greed and ambition.
Trump called her “Crooked Hillary,” and he was sure right on that one. And this time I think it will come back to bite her because probably everybody she has ever dealt with hates her and is not going to take the fall for her.
In a reasonable world, that might be the response.
But while this isn’t a reasonable world and probably nothing very dramatic will happen to Hillary, this was seriously damning and undermines the whole narrative. She thought people were going to throw themselves under the bus for her...and they didn’t.
I don’t know why she thought this, because all accounts say that she was a nasty, horrible boss and nobody liked her. But she lives in her own world of greed and ambition.
Trump called her “Crooked Hillary,” and he was sure right on that one. And this time I think it will come back to bite her because probably everybody she has ever dealt with hates her and is not going to take the fall for her.
Zubu is a copy and paste from other verifiable sites...like Drudge and sometimes, FR
I thought that was Bill?
Anyone who thinks the Hildebeest will ever be brought to the bar of justice is delusional. She knows where all the bodies are buried. If she were ever arrested, she’d sing like Mariah Carey, implicating everyone in both the DC monoparty. At that point, we could put bars around the Beltway and bring in John Carpenter and Kurt Russell to make “Escape from DC.”
Sounds like RICO to me.
It was reported at 5:00 that Mook was flying to Spain for a vacation - would you want to be on that airplane?
Donald Segretti enters the chat...
>>>Put that bitch under oath.<<<
It wouldn’t do any good; she would just lie, even under oath, because that’s her standard MO. I feel she will deny all accusations made against her, just like always.
At the very least, Trump’s lawsuit against the DNC is suddenly looking a lot more promising!
If he isn’t in protective custody he’ll be dead by June.
Hillary has surely put an order in for his future suicide.
She’s a failure. She just doesn’t know it. She has failed over and over at those things that actually truly matter in life.
Revenge is dish best served cold. I think he enjoyed being asked and being forced under oath to answer those questions.
Why would he tell anyone where’s he’s going? He’s really probably going to Antarctica.
I think so, too. She blamed him and Podesta for her loss.
That headline could definitely be taken the wrong way.
It is big because it is not just MAGA supporters on a blog, but a high Hildebeast official testifying in court
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