Trump has said that he plans to bring up Russian election interference when he meets with Putin next week, but doesn’t seem too concerned about the outcome. Russia continues to say they had nothing to do with Meddling in our Election! Where is the DNC Server, and why didn’t Shady James Comey and the now disgraced FBI agents take and closely examine it? Why isn’t Hillary/Russia being looked at? So many questions, so much corruption! Trump cited Russia’s claim that they did not meddle in the election as recently as June 28th. The president has on multiple occasions indicated that he does not believe Russia interfered in the election, despite the consensus of U.S. The news of the indictments comes three days before President Trump is scheduled to meet with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland. Wasserman Schultz added, “I strongly believe that every individual who helped carry it out – foreign or domestic – should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.” John Podesta, the former chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign who was specifically targeted by the hackers, told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, “Donald Trump likes to describe this as a witch hunt – well, we just found some witches. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), chairwoman of the DNC at the time of the hack, said in a statement she was pleased that the Department of Justice had continued to investigate the crime “despite Donald Trump’s dangerous distortions.” NEW: White House responds to Russian hacking indictments. The White House responded by highlighting the absence of any allegations against American citizens. Even if this is proven to be the case my exchange with him is still innocent based on its content and context and timing.” (The indictment does not allege any of the Americans who spoke with Guccifer 2.0 were aware that they were communicating with Russians at the time.)
#Has the dnc server ever been inspected by the fbi trial#
“This exchange is entirely public and provides no evidence of collaboration or collusion with Guccifer 2.0 or anyone else in the alleged hacking of the DNC emails, as well as taking place many weeks after the events described in today’s indictment.” (The indictment describes the conversation as taking place “on or about August 15” – the same date of the messages Stone posted online.)Īsked if he was ready to accept that he was speaking to a Russian entity at the time, Stone replied: “No court has yet confirmed this and I believe it would require an inspection of the DNC server at trial in order to prove it.
“As I testified before the House Intelligence Committee under oath my 24-word exchange with someone on Twitter claiming to be Guccifer 2.0 is benign based on its content context and timing,” Stone wrote in a text message to Rolling Stone. Reached for comment Friday morning, Stone downplayed the significance of the exchange. Stone had previously posted screenshots of the conversation online, in which Guccifer 2.0 wrote, “please tell me if i can help u anyhow… it would be a great pleasure to me.”
The indictment includes snippets of a conversation between the alleged Russian officers posing as Guiccifer 2.0 and longtime Trump ally Roger Stone, who is referred to as “a person who was in regular contact with senior members of the presidential campaign of Donald J. Indictment: That evening, Russian operatives targeted Clinton campaign emails "for the first time." /fanyaAxwfJ July 27, 2016, Trump: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing." Guccifer 2.0 (Russian intel) was communicating with a person in regular contact with the Trump campaign /YuQ2Lr4k96Īccording to the indictment, the officials spearfished members of the Clinton campaign on the same day Trump called for Russia to find Clinton’s missing emails.
One of which, Guccifer 2.0, contacted at least one individual who was in regular contact with senior members of the Trump campaign. To conceal their identities as they released the hacked information, the Russian officials used aliases. “There’s no allegation that the conspiracy changed the vote count or affected any election result,” he said. While announcing the charges, Rosenstein was careful to clarify that the indictment does not contend that the hacking affected the results of the election, only that it transpired. The officials also allegedly sought to hack into the state board of elections, secretaries of state and private companies who supplied technology relating to the administration of elections.
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