Trump accidentally proves that the Clinton campaign wasn't the driving force of Russian probe

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Daniel Goldman
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Terrific explainer by ⁦@pbump⁩, as always. It’s a tough call whether we should want the inevitable motion to dismiss to succeed, as it likely will, or fail, which would mean discovery would follow.

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Analysis | Trump accidentally proves that the Clinton campaign wasn’t the driving force of the...
In an effort to prove his other favorite conspiracy theory, Trump's new lawsuit actually reinforces the flimsiness of the idea.
5:33 PM · Mar 25, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/25/trump-accidentally-proves-that-clinton-campaign-wasnt-driving-force-russia-probe/

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What stopped me in my tracks in the new lawsuit filed on behalf of former president Donald Trump was a reference to internal discussions at the Democratic National Committee that, the suit alleges, show that there was an effort within the DNC to “damage Republican presidential candidates’ credibility with voters.”

The startling thing wasn’t that line, an attempt to make utterly run-of-the-mill political-campaign activity seem nefarious. It was, instead, that as Trump and his lawyers were trying to make a case for how the investigation into possible links between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia were a product of a conspiracy helmed by Hillary Clinton and her aides, they were citing these particular documents.

If you were just reading the lawsuit, you would learn that the internal discussions were revealed “after the DNC servers were hacked by an individual using the name ‘Guccifer 2.0.’ ” If, however, you were at all conscious during the period from June 2016 to, say, last week, you would recognize that the actual source of those documents was that they were stolen by hackers working for Russia. The investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election demonstrated that pretty robustly, including finding examples of hackers in Russia searching for translations of phrases that are later used by “Guccifer” in blog posts. This was part of the broader effort to aid Trump’s election that November.

In other words, as Trump and his lawyers were trying to prove that Clinton was the driving force behind the investigation into Russian interference, they were relying on documents released as part of that interference effort. It’s some mixture of dishonest and galling — and it’s not even the most ridiculous part of the case the lawsuit tries to make.

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[Blue Owl]

1. Let's make this easy...

Whatever Diarrhea Donny is accusing the Clinton campaign of, he is guilty of that very thing