Mother Jones: From A Mysterious Conspiracy Site To Trump's Campaign In 4 Steps

[Miles Archer]

Trump often tweeted about Clinton’s destroyed emails—he referred to them as “missing”—and, most famously, called on Moscow to hack Clinton to find those messages: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.”

In the weeks before the meeting between the Russian emissary and the top Trump advisers, hope was burning brightly on the right that Russia somehow had obtained Clinton’s personal emails and would release material that would ruin her campaign. A senior Trump aide was publicly spreading this tale—and another suggested he believed it. But this story was just crap cooked up by a conspiracy site.

On May 6, an article appeared on two sites—the European Union Times and WhatDoesItMean.com—claiming the Kremlin was hotly debating whether or not to release tens of thousands of Clinton emails it supposedly possessed:

An intriguing Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today suggests that a “war of words” has broken out between the Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov and Chairwoman of the Council of Federation Valentina Matviyenko over the issue of releasing to the Western media tens-of-thousands of top secret and classified emails obtained by the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) from the private, but unsecured, computer (email server) belonging to former US Secretary of State, and present American presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/07/were-trump-jr-manafort-and-kushner-hoping-to-get-clintons-emails-from-putin/

[Achilleaze]

1. republicans traitors to America deserve justice

charge them, try them, convict them, imprison them.

[AwakeAtLast]

2. OH. MY. GOD!

Does this mean we have this orange shitgibbon, Twitler, as president because of a CONSPIRACY THEORY?!?!?

This was handed to the Russians on a silver platter!



I need a drink. Or thirty.