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struggle4progress

(118,281 posts)
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 07:39 PM Feb 2017

The scandal Trump can't shake

14 February 2017

... in May 2016 .. reports emerged of hackers targeting the Democratic Party. Over the next two months .. US intelligence agencies .. traced the breaches back to Russian hackers.

In July, on the eve of the Democratic National Convention, Wikileaks published 20,000 internal emails stolen by the hackers. US intelligence officials said they believed with "high confidence" that Russia was behind the operation, but the Trump campaign publicly refused the accept the findings.

Instead, at a press conference, Mr Trump caused outrage by inviting Russian hackers to target Hillary Clinton's controversial personal email server, saying: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing".

About the same time .. Trump's .. campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was accused of accepting millions of dollars in cash for representing Russian interests in the Ukraine and US, including dealings with an oligarch with close ties to .. Putin ...


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38966846

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