Donald Trump Jr. became heated when being questioned by CNN’s Jake Tapper over whether Russian hackers were responsible for leaked emails that seem to show the Democratic party tried to undermine Hillary Clinton’s rival in the primaries, Bernie Sanders. “It’s no coincidence these emails were released on the eve of the convention”.
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The DNC has previously had its files hacked by an individual named “Guccifer 2.0” that may have had ties to the Russians.
The emails, released Friday by WikiLeaks, included discussions on tactics that would help to negatively portray Vermont Sen. Two separate Russian intelligence-linked cyberattack groups were both in the DNC’s networks. And we saw him talking about how North Atlantic Treaty Organisation shouldn’t – necessarily intervene to defend our Eastern European allies if they are attacked by Russian Federation.
Mook also suggested that the GOP nominee altered the Republican party platform to make it more attractive to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime. I mean, I can’t think of bigger lies, but that exactly goes to show you what the DNC and what the Clinton camp will do. I mean they’ll say anything to be able to win this.
Mook’s comments were not the first time Trump has been accused of being pro-Russian. When asked about the speculation surrounding Russian involvement in the WikiLeaks scandal, he dismissed the “expert” claims as “disgusting” and “so phony”.
He added, “These lies and the perpetuating of nonsense to try to gain some political capital is outrageous and he should be ashamed of himself”.
“Those emails have proven the system has been rigged against them from the start”, Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort said Sunday on Fox News, referring to Sanders supporters.
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook made the charge on CNN two days after WikiLeaks released almost 20,000 emails showing that top DNC leaders, including Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, bore openly hostile feelings towards the Clinton rival Bernie Sanders campaign and floated ideas on how to “push back” against him and promote Clinton.
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“I think we need to get to the bottom of these facts, but that is what experts are telling us”.
