( He’s reportedly already investigating Tony Podesta, the brother of former Clinton campaign manager John Podesta, for work in Ukraine, though from what is known it appears to have had to do with an election there, not here.) But we trust that neither Mr. ![]() If Robert Mueller, the special counsel leading the Department of Justice’s investigation into the matter, finds any evidence that the Clinton campaign engaged in any illegal activity, by all means he should follow it. That all happened, and it’s a big deal whether the Trump campaign was actively involved or not. Oh, and there was the bit about Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and then-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort sitting down with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer who promised to deliver dirt on Hillary Clinton in what an intermediary who set up the meeting said was part of the Russian government’s effort to help Mr. Trump’s behalf, and the bi-partisan leaders of a Senate panel investigating the matter have said the same thing. intelligence agencies have unanimously concluded that Russians sought to intervene on Mr. Russians attempted to hack into at least 21 states’ election systems (including Maryland’s). Trump put it Wednesday, “the hoax is turned around, and you look at what’s happened with Russia and … you look at the fake dossier, so that’s all turned around.” Nor does it mean, as White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted, “The real Russia scandal? Clinton campaign paid for the fake Russia dossier, then lied about it & covered it up.” And it definitely does not mean that, as Mr. How quaint.īut what this does not mean is that the questions about the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia or the Putin government’s efforts to help him get elected are made-up or unimportant. Apparently the Clinton camp showed some modicum of compunction about throwing around unsubstantiated allegations. That’s interesting, but mainly in that none of the contents of the dossier became public until after the campaign was over. It turns out those Democrats were the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee via a Washington law firm that hired the opposition research company that hired the former British intelligence agent who did the digging. Trump’s candidacy initially paid for it, and after the primaries, Democrats took over. ![]() We’ve known for months that a wealthy Republican opposed to Mr. We’ve known for quite some time that President Donald Trump’s political opponents paid for the opposition research that led to the infamous Russia dossier of assorted allegations - some subsequently confirmed, some not, some salacious, some not - involving the Republican’s connections with the Putin regime.
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