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Hillary Clinton Personally Signed Off on Sharing Trump-Russia Alfa Bank Smear With Media, ex-Campaign Manager Testifies
American Greatness ^ | 20 May, 2022 | Debra Heine

Posted on 05/21/2022 4:47:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Hillary Clinton personally approved the dissemination of now debunked opposition research linking Donald Trump and a Kremlin-backed Bank in the run-up to the 2016 election, former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook testified in court Friday.

The trial of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann—the first to be indicted by Special Counsel John Durham in his years long probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia hoax—began on May 16.

Sussmann has been charged with making a false statement to the FBI when he told FBI General Counsel James Baker in September 2016 that he was not doing work “for any client” when he requested and attended a meeting in which he presented “purported data and ‘white papers’ that allegedly demonstrated a covert communicates channel” between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank.

Mook, who was called to the stand by Michael Sussmann’s defense, testified that he was first briefed about the Alfa Bank by campaign general counsel Marc Elias. He said campaign officials were not “totally confident” in the legitimacy of the material, but were hoping the media could verify it.

During cross-examination by government prosecutor Andrew DeFillippis Friday, Mook was asked about the campaign’s understanding of the Alfa Bank allegations against Trump and whether they planned to release the data to the media.

Mook said he was first briefed about the Alfa Bank issue by campaign general counsel Marc Elias, who at the time was a partner at lawfirm Perkins Coie.

Mook testified that he was told that 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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2020election; andagain; dirtytricks; election2016; election2020
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1 posted on 05/21/2022 4:47:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

And I believe most that went with the story in the media knew it was false.


2 posted on 05/21/2022 4:47:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

When hillary is in prison I’ll believe in the criminal “justice” system again.


3 posted on 05/21/2022 4:52:42 AM PDT by I want the USA back (A totally corrupt media willingly lies to protect a totally corrupt administration. )
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To: MtnClimber

Mook must have had 24/7 security to be able to testify.


4 posted on 05/21/2022 4:55:37 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: MtnClimber

Hey you kids, keep it down, I’m trying to sleep.


5 posted on 05/21/2022 4:56:23 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Socialism should more accurately be called Sociopathism)
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To: MtnClimber

Cernovich RT’d CJ Killmer

@KillmerCj [Thread at link below]

After the sinking of the Lusitania, Sen. Robert La Follette claimed that the ship had actually been carrying large amounts of ammunition for the UK govt. The US & UK govts claimed this was false-even though both knew it wasn’t-& their respective medias dutifully repeated the lie.

A campaign (ultimately unsuccessful) was launched to remove La Follette from the Senate, & a big part of their charges was that he’d been spreading what would in today’s Orwellian lingo be called misinformation.

Just a few years after the war ended, a New York customs official claimed the ship had in fact been carrying a large amount of ammo. Divers on the wreck in 2008 proved the customs official & La Follette were correct, & that the US & UK govts & press had knowingly lied at the time

Think about that: The US & UK govts & media lied about the Lusitania (& not just in regard to the ammunition, btw) & the 1 guy in Congress who told the truth about it was nearly impeached for supposedly spreading “misinformation.”

Do you really think this willingness of govt & media to lie during wartime, & to demonize & try to silence & destroy those who tell the truth, has magically stopped sometime in the last 100 yrs???

Or do you think it’s more likely that their willingness to lie & to try to silence & destroy those who speak the truth (& their skill & sophistication at doing both) has massively INCREASED over the last 107 years???

PS - The large amount of ammunition stashed in the Lusitania’s cargo holds DRASTICALLY increased the number of passenger casualties, because of 1) all the secondary explosions of the ammo touching off & 2) it caused the ship to sink a lot faster than it otherwise would’ve.

BTW, I’m currently up to my eyeballs (& have been for a while) working hard on an epic upcoming Dangerous History Podcast mini-series on World War I propaganda in the US. Stay tuned!

https://twitter.com/KillmerCj/status/1527620296479490048


6 posted on 05/21/2022 4:58:18 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

I never heard that story.

Thanks!

L


7 posted on 05/21/2022 5:00:55 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is)
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To: MtnClimber

And most knew it was Hillary,

in the debate, Trump pounced on her and she did not rule what was allowed nor what he said, Ya dont do that to the queen.... she gets even in any dirty way she can.

She is one person that is full of revenge and power....

I hope there are consequences for the first time in her corrupt life. She has gotten away with some very hard items that no one else would have escaped.


8 posted on 05/21/2022 5:01:17 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: MtnClimber

I am sure the Justice AKA “Just-us” Department will get right on this!!! /s


9 posted on 05/21/2022 5:06:26 AM PDT by Ken522
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To: MtnClimber

Libtard DC jury will acquit.


10 posted on 05/21/2022 5:10:33 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: I want the USA back
When hillary is in prison I’ll believe in the criminal “justice” system again.

Bingo

11 posted on 05/21/2022 5:11:12 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: I want the USA back

It seems that Hillary’s name is the tinsel on the latest cat-toy. This is probably going the same direction as all of the UFO stuff.


12 posted on 05/21/2022 5:29:36 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: MtnClimber

Another story which has zero chance of being on CNN.


13 posted on 05/21/2022 5:34:49 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: Travis McGee

If the ammo is small arms, then no, it would not increase the fatality number. Ammo “touching off” outside a firearm chamber does not fly off in a powerful manner or direction, because the exploding gunpowder creates the hot gases that expand in all directions, simply rupturing the cartridge. In contrast, for a cartridge firing within a firearm chamber, the heavy walls of the chamber and the heavy tight bolt behind the cartridge force the explosion only in one direction—down the open barrel. Cartridges just burning up and popping off are like firecrackers, essentially, and the bullets do not fly off and hurt anyone. The cartridges “cooking off” and killing bystanders by bullets flying off in a random manner in a fire is a myth.


14 posted on 05/21/2022 5:36:04 AM PDT by Notthemomma ( )
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To: Notthemomma

Crap, somehow my entry above got posted here but was supposed to be in a thread about the sinking of the Lusitania. Sorry, guys.


15 posted on 05/21/2022 5:37:21 AM PDT by Notthemomma ( )
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To: Notthemomma

Wait, I’m having sizable brain farts. This is in the right place. My apologies to all.

(Sure wish we could actually edit or delete our entries.)


16 posted on 05/21/2022 5:38:29 AM PDT by Notthemomma ( )
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To: Notthemomma

Sigh, and the hits just keep coming. My post was responding to MtnClimber, not Travis. Sorry, Travis.


17 posted on 05/21/2022 5:39:32 AM PDT by Notthemomma ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Irrelevant...nothing will happen, the elite are immune to laws that the rest of live by.

That c- - - could commit murder on live TV and the media would deny it, the left would blame it on the right and the courts would do nothing.


18 posted on 05/21/2022 5:46:59 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: MtnClimber

Lol. She ain’t going to jail. Maybe she pats a fine. No one goes to jail for anything.


19 posted on 05/21/2022 5:47:55 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: bray

It did make to their website. Looks like it go buried right away though..

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/20/politics/hillary-clinton-robby-mook-fbi/index.html?


20 posted on 05/21/2022 5:55:09 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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