{"id":670345,"date":"2019-11-07T13:15:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T10:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/?p=670345"},"modified":"2019-11-07T13:15:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T10:15:25","slug":"paul-manafort-pushed-ukraine-election-hack-conspiracy-theory-in-2016-new-mueller-probe-document-dump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2019\/11\/07\/paul-manafort-pushed-ukraine-election-hack-conspiracy-theory-in-2016-new-mueller-probe-document-dump\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Manafort pushed Ukraine election hack conspiracy theory in 2016: New Mueller probe document dump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul Manafort realized the value of the Ukraine election hacking conspiracy theory in real time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Newly released Justice Department documents reveal that the Trump campaign chief turned imprisoned felon told aides that Ukraine, not Russia, was meddling in the election during the 2016 race, Buzzfeed News reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201c(Robert) Gates recalled Manafort saying the hack was likely carried out by the Ukrainians, not the Russians,\u201d an FBI agent wrote in a summary of an interview with Gates, Manafort\u2019s deputy who cut a plea deal and testified against his ex-boss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A 500-page batch of the so-called \u201c302\u201d forms that special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigators filed was released after Buzzfeed won a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the DOJ.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Even though U.S. intelligence has repeatedly dismissed it, the claim that Russia was not to blame for interfering in the 2016 election on Trump\u2019s behalf has been a durable talking point among Trump supporters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Along with muddying the waters about the benefits that Trump gained from Russia answering his calls to hack Hillary Clinton\u2019s emails, the conspiracy theory raises the GOP-friendly possibility that it was actually Democrats who benefited from collusion with a foreign power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The \u201cUkraine hack\u201d theory gained new credence when Attorney General William Barr launched an official investigation into the \u201corigins\u201d of the Mueller probe which Trump suggests was launched after Democratic-sympathizing Deep State intelligence operatives concocted an elaborate frame up to blame Russia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The document dump also underlines the intense interest that Trump and his campaign had in the stolen Democratic National Committee emails, which they correctly believed would prove politically toxic to Clinton and Democrats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cGates recalled a time on the campaign aircraft when candidate Trump said, \u2018Get the emails,’\u201d one summary reads.<\/p>\n

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