Hillary Clinton approved dissemination of Trump-Russian bank allegations to media, campaign manager testifies

Clinton's former campaign manager said he took the idea of leaking Trump-Russia allegations to multiple senior campaign officials.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook testified Friday that then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton approved the dissemination of materials alleging a covert communications channel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank to the media, despite campaign officials not being "totally confident" in the legitimacy of the data.

Mook was called to the stand for testimony by Michael Sussmann’s defense Friday.

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."

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.

"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," Mook said.

Remember... her campaign spent $8 million to pay for the creation of this.

She can’t now say “oh you just found something and want to pass it on?? gosh...”

she paid for them to make it. So who was the originator of the idea? Who said “hey let’s manufacture some dirt on trump?”

the only thing you need to know is the fbi lied their asses off to the DOJ per their own notes

barr and durham had this for a while

they only publicly disclosed the notes after the statute of limitations had expired

the fix is in

there will be sacrificial lambs but the deep state will be protected

(mostly) Durham/Sussman/Elias/Hillary election corruption trial topics, from a single keyword:

-- We've known for years the Clinton campaign was behind the Russia collusion hoax... --

They had one role to play. McCain had another, the FBI another, the DOJ another (remember appointment of special counsel Mueller?), Congress and committtees had another. They ALL played as though the allegation was credible, just not proven.

Aristocratic class against the commoner.

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