Posted on 05/19/2022 5:09:09 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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DeFilippis ends redirect showing one screen with Sussmann’s text to Baker and notes of FBI officials taken right after meeting saying Sussmann had no client. Prompts Baker to say that these records would be more reliable than records from months later.
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook is the next witness.
Next up is Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook, who is a defense witness but testifying today because he’s on vacation next week.
Andrew Goudsward
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Mook is up now. Says he never interacted with Sussmann during the campaign and was not aware of Fusion GPS before the election
Offer him a deal he can’t refuse. I can’t believe he was unaware of fusion GPS.
Adam Goldman
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Mook said the campaign didnt totally understand the alfa bank data and “werent totally confident of it.”
Two of the most damaging days to the campaign were caused by James Comey and not Donald Trump,” Mook says
Mook didnt know Sussmann was in touch with the NYT about the data. He was not aware that Sussmann went to the FBI on behalf of the campaign. he did not direct or authorize Sussmann to go to the FBI.
Mook says he would have expected to know if Sussmann went to the FBI. Mook said going to the FBI doesnt seem like an effective way to get info the public.
Mook tells DeFilippis that Marc Elias first briefed him about the Alfa Bank info
Mook says at some point campaign was briefed on Alfa Bank allegations, but didn’t do anything with it right away because they weren’t sure it was credible. He says the campaign didn’t view Alfa Bank as a “silver bullet” that would decide the election
Mook says he recalls being told the data had come from people with expertise. Mook never met the experts. Mook says the campaign starting discussing whether to push the info to the media.
Mook says the campaign decided to give to a reporter the info so the reporter could run it down.
Mook says he discussed the decision with HRC.
Mook says they wanted to give it to a reporter who could vet the info and decide to print it.
Run it down? More like spread the story everywhere.
DeFilippis asks Mook who provided the data to the media. Mook doesn’t know but likely a campaign staffer.
This Hillary tweet now evidence
Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/793250312119263233
Mook doesnt know if HRC drafted the Tweet
Mook says they gave to the reporter so he could write for the “American people.”
Adam Goldman
@adamgoldmanNYT
DeFilippis asks Mook if anything changed in terms of his confidence after the Alfa Bank story was published. Mook says yes in the sense that a reporter reviewed the material. DeFilippis takes a shot at the media and says the media often gets stories wrong.
Grousing heard in media room after that DeFilippis comment
Asked if Mook had doubts about credibility of allegations at time article ran, Mook says he can’t say because he’s not a cyber expert, but the Slate article added credibility.
“I’m sure you know reporters publish things that aren’t true,” DeFilippis responds in dig at the press.
Asked if Mook had doubts about credibility of allegations at time article ran, Mook says he can’t say because he’s not a cyber expert, but the Slate article added credibility.
“I’m sure you know reporters publish things that aren’t true,” DeFilippis responds in dig at the press.
Major theme of DeFilippis cross is that Mook delegated work to Marc Elias and others, suggesting that Mook wouldn’t necessarily have been aware of all the work to promote Alfa Bank allegations.
@AGoudsward
DeFilippis questions Mook about concept of “October Surprise” where damning information surfaces right before election.
Then, he has Mook read date of Clinton campaign tweet on Alfa Bank, which was Oct. 31, 2016.
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