Trump was told about WikiLeaks attempts to sabotage Clinton, Gates testifies by writerknowles
Donald Trump’s deputy campaign manager testified Monday that Trump was briefed by his longtime political adviser Roger Stone in July 2016 about a WikiLeaks plan to release emails that would be damaging to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, raising new questions about what the president told former special counsel Robert Mueller.
“We believed that if information [from the hack] were to come out,” Gates testified, “it would give our campaign a leg up.” WikiLeaks released the stolen emails on July 22, 2016. In Trump’s written answers to questions from Mueller, the president denied knowing about the release in advance. Mueller’s report concluded that the Russian government intervened in the 2016 U.S. election with the express purpose of helping elect Trump, whose campaign hoped it would “benefit electorally from information stolen and released though Russian efforts.”
“Well, problematic is an understatement in terms of what it displays, in terms of giving some hope, or some boost, to what is and should be illegal activity,” Mueller said.
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