![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2018, Trump attacked other NATO allies for not spending enough on defense. Trump has also made several statements publicly and privately - both during the 2016 campaign and after becoming president - that appear to conflict with the dossier's claim that the Trump team agreed "to raise US/NATO defence commitments in the Baltics and Eastern Europe to deflect attention away from Ukraine, a priority for PUTIN who needed to cauterise the subject." A member of the Republican National Committee present at the meeting, however, confirmed to INSIDER that the change "definitely came from Trump staffers." The Trump team denies playing any role in the language change. But following a meeting at the convention, the "lethal weapons" line was softened and changed to say the US would "provide appropriate assistance" to Ukraine.Īs INSIDER has previously reported, the circumstances around this language change are controversial. The original language of the draft amendment proposed sending "lethal weapons" to Ukraine to fend off Russia's aggression. ![]() The Washington Post reported in 2016 that "the Trump campaign orchestrated a set of events" in July 2016, just before the start of the Republican National Convention, to soften the language of an amendment to the Republican Party's draft policy on Ukraine. In July 2016, while Manafort was still leading the campaign, a change was made to the Republican Party's platform on Ukraine. Manafort, who has a long history of working for pro-Russian Ukrainian interests, joined the Trump campaign in March 2016 and soon ascended to the role of campaign manager. While media reports indicate that Trump, Stone, Trump Jr., and other members of the Trump campaign were interested in the WikiLeaks dumps, there is no evidence corroborating Steele's claim that the hacking operation was carried out "with the full knowledge and support of TRUMP and senior members of his campaign team." His son, Donald Trump Jr., is also known to have been in contact with WikiLeaks via Twitter during the election, according to The Atlantic. Trump heaped praise on WikiLeaks on the campaign trail. On October 7, WikiLeaks published a damaging batch of emails belonging to Podesta. "That appears to be the game hackers are now about."Ī little over two weeks later, on August 21, Stone tweeted that Podesta would "soon" be targeted. "Time to let more than to be exposed as in bed w enemy if they are not ready to drop HRC," Corsi reportedly added, referring to Clinton. "Word is friend in embassy plans 2 more dumps," Corsi reportedly wrote to Stone on August 8, according to NBC News. Three days after the first document dump, the two men discussed how to get "the pending emails," and Corsi also later touched base with Stone to tell him about an upcoming dump. He has also publicly stated that he believes he is the unnamed American referred to in Mueller's indictment.Īdditional emails between Stone and the far-right conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi, which are in Mueller's possession, shed light on the two men's murky ties to WikiLeaks. The longtime GOP strategist and informal Trump adviser Roger Stone is known to have communicated with Guccifer 2.0 and WikiLeaks during the election.But it said that in August 2016, Guccifer 2.0 opened a channel of communication with "a person who was in regular contact with senior members" of the Trump campaign. The charging document did not directly implicate any Americans.The indictment said the hackers also used Guccifer 2.0 to pass stolen emails along to WikiLeaks. In June, the Russians allegedly "staged and released" tens of thousands of hacked documents using Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks. and stole emails and other documents from the DCCC and DNC." Once they breached the network, the indictment said, the hackers "covertly monitored the computers of dozens of DCCC and DNC employees, implanting hundreds of files containing malicious computer code. In April, the defendants hacked into the computer networks of the DNC and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), according to the allegations.The charging document alleged that beginning in March 2016, the conspirators "used a variety of means to hack the email accounts" of people working on the Hillary Clinton campaign.The special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian military intelligence officers last July on hacking and conspiracy charges related to the 2016 DNC hack and the subsequent dissemination of stolen emails via the Russian hacker Guccifer 2.0, the Russia-linked website DCLeaks, and the radical pro-transparency platform WikiLeaks.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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