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Internal Mueller documents show Trump campaign chief pushed unproven theory Ukraine hacked Democrats
Washington Post ^ | Nov 2, 2019 | Rosalind Helderman, Spencer Hsu

Posted on 11/03/2019 4:16:31 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, suggested as early as the summer of 2016 that Ukrainians might have been responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee during the presidential campaign rather than Russians, a key witness told federal investigators last year.

Newly released documents show that Manafort’s protege, deputy campaign manager Rick Gates, told the FBI of Manafort’s theory during interviews conducted as part of former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. Gates told the FBI that Manafort had shared his theory of Ukrainian culpability with him and other campaign aides before the election.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: 2016; chalupa; dnc; dnchack; dncserver; dncservers; manafordtrussia; manafort; mueller; rickgates; russia; ukraine
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Amazing how the compost can't investigate that DNC was not hacked but had data downloaded internally.
1 posted on 11/03/2019 4:16:31 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
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THE AMAZON POST

"We embrace darkness when it suits our purposes"

2 posted on 11/03/2019 4:20:20 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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“”””pushed unproven theory Ukraine hacked Democrats”””

They never mentioned “unproven theory” during the Russia hoax.


3 posted on 11/03/2019 4:24:57 AM PST by shelterguy
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Oh goody, more gossip and innuendo about Trump and his people and virtually no discussion about Obama, Biden, Hillary, McCain, and other Party of Government involvement in Ukraine. I think I’ll stick to supermarket tabloids as more reliable than the Daily Bezos.


4 posted on 11/03/2019 4:25:13 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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WaPo begs the question. “How many times can you beat a dead horse”?


5 posted on 11/03/2019 4:26:51 AM PST by SanchoP (Yippy,the next generation search engine.)
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Amazing how the compost can’t investigate that DNC was not hacked but had data downloaded internally. <<<<—

In other News........Seth Rich could not be reached for comment....


6 posted on 11/03/2019 4:34:59 AM PST by M-cubed
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“ unproven theory”

Well gee, look at what happened to anyone who tried to investigate
Namecalling being the least

Crowdstrike

Trump went there in his call to Zelensky


7 posted on 11/03/2019 4:36:58 AM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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8 posted on 11/03/2019 4:39:03 AM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: silverleaf

As he should have.


9 posted on 11/03/2019 4:40:22 AM PST by Hugh the Scot (I won`t be wronged. I won`t be insulted. I won`t be laid a hand on. - John Bernard Books)
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DNC was leaked by an insider.

Hillary’s email was almost certainly hacked by Ukraine . . . and by Russia, China, France, Germany, England, Israel, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, and every other country with an intelligence service. Anyone who didn’t hack Hillary deserves to be fired for incompetence.


10 posted on 11/03/2019 4:41:23 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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Everything is “unproven” meanwhile Hillary said Trump is an illegitimate president, Tulsi is a Russian asset, Abrams won in Georgia, on and on.

Everytime a Democrat burps a diamond comes out, anything negative about a Democrat is an unproven conspiracy theory.


11 posted on 11/03/2019 4:41:54 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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Unproven because the Dems are blocking the investigation.


12 posted on 11/03/2019 4:45:16 AM PST by Brilliant
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So when Mueller talked with Manafort’s partner Podesta...oh he did the same thing Manafort did but was given immunity, and he was the brother of John Podesta head of the Hillary campaign. So Mueller forgot to talk to him, just gave him immunity.

Ukraine seems big. All of the connected families seemed to be getting their kickbacks from American payments from that government during the President Obama years.

DK


13 posted on 11/03/2019 4:45:27 AM PST by Dark Knight
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So after Manafort suggested Ukraine he became FBI target?


14 posted on 11/03/2019 4:46:31 AM PST by Raycpa
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Democrat media is thinking if they peddle this nonsense ad nauseum, it will cause Trump’s support to fall apart.

These people are delusional and are seriously in denial. No one can help them because the reason to them as to why Trump won was the result of foreign interference.

Au contraire.


15 posted on 11/03/2019 4:47:41 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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“Amazing how the compost can’t investigate that DNC was not hacked but had data downloaded internally. <<<<—

In other News........Seth Rich could not be reached for comment....”

Post of the Day


16 posted on 11/03/2019 4:51:42 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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Manafort told Gates, Jr, Gates told the FBI, and the FBI, Mueller, et al, prosecuted Manafort for knowing too much.


17 posted on 11/03/2019 4:52:13 AM PST by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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“So after Manafort suggested Ukraine he became FBI target?“

Spot on! +10


18 posted on 11/03/2019 4:52:36 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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19 posted on 11/03/2019 4:54:02 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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The DNC “ hired” the company Crowdstrike to “ prove” the “ Russians” hacked their server and meddled in the election

Crowdstrike is as swampy as it gets
Anyone trying to connect the dots is labeled as a conspiracy nut
Ukraine is/was key to this probable covert plot hatched by.....???
used to build the Russian meddling narrative

Flynn knew
Manafort knew
Look what happened to them

Some background - no “ name” news org will investigate

https://clintonfoundationtimeline.com/tags/dmitri-alperovitch/


20 posted on 11/03/2019 4:58:08 AM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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