Posted on 08/29/2018 5:58:50 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump tweeted early Wednesday that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails were hacked and obtained illegally by China, warning that the Justice Department must act on the news or risk losing its credibility.
"Hillary Clinton’s Emails, many of which are Classified Information, got hacked by China," the president said in the tweet.
"Next move better be by the FBI & DOJ or, after all of their other missteps (Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr, FISA, Dirty Dossier etc.), their credibility will be forever gone!" he added.
The president's tweet, which did not cite any evidence for the claim, comes following a report from The Daily Caller citing unnamed intelligence sources who said that Clinton's private email server was compromised by the Chinese, a fact it claims was discovered in 2015.
One unnamed intelligence source told the news outlet that Clinton's email server was compromised by a public company acting as a front for the Chinese government, which the source says inserted a line of code that sent a "courtesy copy" of every email to Chinese authorities.
“When [the Office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General] did a very deep dive, they found in the actual metadata — the data which is at the header and footer of all the emails — that a copy, a ‘courtesy copy,’ was being sent to a third party and that third party was a known Chinese public company that was involved in collecting intelligence for China,” the intelligence source said.
No U.S. intelligence officials have publicly confirmed the report, and it was unclear if Trump was making the claim based on information not reported in the story.
China denied the report in a statement to Reuters, and said it "firmly oppose[s]" cyberattacks and the theft of state secrets.
“This isn’t the first time we’ve heard similar kinds of allegations,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily news briefing.
“China is a staunch defender of cybersecurity. We firmly oppose and crack down on any forms of internet attacks and the stealing of secrets,” she added.
They weren’t hacked. She put them on an unprotected server so they could snag them and she could claim plausible deniability.
Its not called ‘hacking’ when you pay the price and receive the password.
Like I hack into Freerepublic daily to post here.
China denied the report in a statement to Reuters, and said it “firmly oppose[s]” cyberattacks and the theft of state secrets.
“This isn’t the first time we’ve heard similar kinds of allegations,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily news briefing.
https://twitter.com/replouiegohmert/status/1034589580169814016
Louie Gohmert confirmed this yesterday. FAKENEWS
Uh-oh. Now the MSM has to report it. :-D
the MSM/FBI *cannot* report this news of China hacking data as it dilutes their two-year long effort to portray Russia as the embodiment of all evil.
If the mainstream media isn’t going to talk about it, someone has to.
The President is trolling again. He’s getting China out there as a player in Hillary’s email saga. For now, it’s palatable to say they were “hacking”.
Later, the public will find out that Hillary was “selling”.
Hilarious, they cite China’s denial.
> did a very deep dive, they found in the actual metadata — the data which is at the header and footer of all the emails
That’s a deep dive? For IT guys, that’s trivial.
YES!!! I was waiting for Trump to go there ....
My personal opinion is that Hilly is going to be the recipient of some sort of “justice” at the hands of Trump. He hasn’t forgotten about his “you would be in jail” comment. When? I don’t know, but Trump tends to get the timing right most of the time. After mid-terms if the Repubs hold the House ... maybe after re-election. The corruption boil at the FBI/DOJ has been lanced and the putrid contents are spilling forth in all their nastiness. Once the flow slows down AND he gets a new AG (after midterms I’m guessing Sessions will be toast), then Hilly better watch out.
My prediction: Nothing will happen to her, and this story will be gone by this time next week.
Yep
He hasn’t even got to the October surprise, yet. I love my president!
Charge HRC with a violation of the Espionage ACT OR YANK SESSIONS.
Chinagate II. The MSM knows the longtime Clinton connection with China, but watch by the end of the week they’ll try and tie President Trump to “shady” Chinese businessmen and donors!
Trump has deep connections to China. Many times he has had Chinese food delivered to Trump Tower. Coincidence??? I don’t think so. Book em, Danno.
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