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Vladimir Putin admitted ordering his officials to assist the President in his election effort - "Yes, I did, yes, I did." Trump had previously publicly asked Russia for their help - "Russia if you're listening ...." And Russia responded to his request by hacking Hillary's emails that very night.
A new indictment charges that Russians tried to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails on July 27, 2016—the same day that Donald Trump publicly asked them to do so.
12 Russian intelligence officials were indicted for it.
The president was encouraging a foreign adversary to illegally hack into messages by a former secretary of state that might contain sensitive information, then release them publicly.
Trump had good reason to believe that Russia was listening. The previous month, his son, Donald Jr.; son-in-law, Jared Kushner; and campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, had a meeting at Trump Tower with Russians who they believed were offering damaging information about Clinton. (The meeting wasn’t revealed to the public until 2017, and both the Russians and the Trump campaign officials say no dirt was exchanged.) Prior to the meeting, Trump Jr. had received an email stating that the meeting was “ part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”
Just like his obstruction of justice , Trump did his conspiring with a foreign adversary in plain sight. |
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