Own staff repeatedly warned him theory about Democrats and Ukraine had been debunked
Tom Porter 8h
Several former White House officials said they told President Donald Trump that a conspiracy theory that Ukraine was secretly responsible for hacking the 2016 US presidential election was false, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
According to the paper, their warnings had little effect on the president, who pursued the theory anyway.
The report backs up a claim by the former homeland security adviser Tom Bossert, who earlier Sunday attacked Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani for keeping the flawed theory alive and said he'd warned Trump that it was groundless ...
One former aide told the publication that Giuliani would "feed Trump all kinds of garbage" that created "a real problem for all of us" ...
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-staff-warned-ukraine-conspiracy-was-false-ignored-2019-9
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