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A review of Hillary Clinton’s unearthed tweets from the 2016 general election shows how she promoted unsubstantiated reports about Donald Trump’s Russian connection.
Following the release of a bombshell report by special counsel John Durham claiming that Clinton’s team developed a spying program on Trump’s White House servers, the tweets resurfaced.
Clinton promoted a narrative that Trump was secretly communicating with Russians via Alfa Bank while running for president.
‘Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank,’ she tweeted on October 31, 2016 alongside a statement from Jake Sullivan, her then-special policy advisor.
‘This secret hotline may be the key to unlocking the mystery of Trump’s ties to Russia,’ Sullivan’s statement read. ‘It certainly seems the Trump Organization felt it had something to hide, given that it apparently took steps to conceal the link when it was discovered by journalists.’
On the same day, Clinton tweeted: ‘It’s time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia’ in addition to promoting an article on Slate, which questioned whether Trump was really using a secret server to correspond with allies overseas.
She included a box in her tweet to claim that such a server existed and was used to ‘communicate privately with a Putin-tied Russian bank called Alfa Bank.’
‘When a reporter asked about it, they shut it down. One week later, they created a different server with a different name for the same purpose.’
Among those alleging that Clinton’s camp spied on Trump’s servers is Republican Representative Jim Jordan.
‘We’ve never seen anything like this in history,’ Jordan told Fox & Friends on Sunday morning.
‘So President Trump’s statement yesterday, I think is right on target. This is truly unprecedented, truly something that has never happened in the history of our great country.’
The ‘spying’ was ‘worse than [we] thought,’ Jordan continued.
In a statement on Sunday, Trump compared the alleged spying to Watergate, the scandal that brought down Richard Nixon.
‘What Hillary Clinton and the Radical Left Democrats did with respect to spying on a President of the United States, even while in office, is a far bigger crime than Watergate,’ Trump said.
‘It will be interesting to see how it was covered by the media and what Mitch McConnell and the RINOs will be doing about it. This is an insult to the Republican Party, but a far greater insult to our Nation.’
After Durham made a court filing in response to the alleged hack, Trump responded with a scathing attack, claiming Team Clinton’s behavior would once have merited an execution.
‘In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death. In addition, reparations should be paid to those in our country who have been damaged by this.’
Donald Trump Jr posted on Twitter: ‘BREAKING: Donald Trump and the RNC funded SIGINT collection AGAINST the Executive Office of the President of the United States, just like the Russians do. This is TREASON!
BREAKING: Donald Trump and the RNC funded SIGINT collection AGAINST the Executive Office of the President of the United States, just like the Russians do. This is TREASON!
Just kidding, it was Hillary Clinton and a big tech executive. Durham is coming.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 13, 2022
Jordan said Trump was ‘right on target’ when he suggested executions for Hillary Clinton’s operatives following Trump’s accusation of treason against the Clinton campaign.
It is alleged that Clinton kept a tech firm on staff to ‘infiltrate’ servers at the Trump Tower and White House.
The purpose was to smear Trump by linking him to Russia, according to a filing by Special Counsel John Durham.
In October 2020, while Trump was president, Attorney General William Barr appointed Durham to serve as the Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice. Investigators continue to look into a case that may anger supporters of the 45th president.
A motion filed by Durham on Friday looked at a potential conflict of interest regarding former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman, who has been accused of telling a false story to federal agents. Sussman has entered a not guilty plea.
Kash Patel, the former chief investigator of the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Trump-Russia, said Friday’s filing ‘definitively showed the Hillary Clinton campaign directly funded and ordered its lawyers at Perkins Coie to orchestrate a criminal enterprise to fabricate a connection between President Trump and Russia,’ Fox News reports.
‘Per Durham, this arrangement was put in motion in July of 2016, meaning the Hillary Clinton campaign and her lawyers masterminded the most intricate and coordinated conspiracy against Trump when he was both a candidate and later president of the United States while simultaneously perpetuating the bogus Steele Dossier hoax,’ Patel explained to Fox.
In the indictment, Sussman is accused of telling FBI General Counsel James Baker two months prior to the election of President Donald Trump that he was not working ‘for anyone’ when he presented papers allegedly describing a ‘covert communications channel’ between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, the largest of the private banks in Russia with ties to the Kremlin.
Source: The Republic Brief