Or look at secretary of state Mike Pompeo, formerly head of the Central Intelligence Agency, who in a press conference on Tuesday said that “anytime there is information that indicates that any country has messed with American elections, we not only have a right but a duty to make sure we chase that down.” He was responding to a question about whether Ukraine, not Russia, hacked the DNC. One wonders how many Fox viewers saw the retraction. On Monday, Kennedy trotted back his statement, saying flatly that he was wrong on CNN. “It could also be Ukraine,” Kennedy said. Look at Senator Joe Kennedy of Louisiana, who on Fox News this weekend claimed that “I don’t know, nor do you, nor do any of us,” who was responsible for 2016 election interference. Why did they give it to a Ukrainian company?” You know, the FBI has never gotten that server. The FBI went in, and they told them, 'Get out of here, we’re not giving it to you.' They gave the server to CrowdStrike, or whatever it’s called, which is a company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian, and I still want to see that server. They have the server, right? From the DNC, Democratic National Committee. “A lot of it had to do, they say, with Ukraine,” Trump said. The story, as Trump recently posited on a marathon call-in to Fox and Friends, goes something like this: Regardless, it has since stuck in the president’s brain like a Ceti eel placed by a wrathful Khan, burrowing deeper until it consumes whatever remains of rational thought.
Where does this malignant conspiracy theory come from in the first place? Maybe Paul Manafort. Give no quarter to any suggestion otherwise. But since Donald Trump persists, along with, now, his secretary of state, who should and one suspects does know better, we will write it once again: Ukraine does not have a DNC server. Even Fox and Friends raised an eyebrow at the idea. So have a bunch of other outlets, for weeks on end, including today.
Why didn’t they take the server? Where is the server, I want to know, and what is the server saying?”).Look, we’ve written this before. He even brought it up standing next to Vladimir Putin at the now infamous 2018 Helsinki meeting, where Trump refused to acknowledge Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election (“You have groups that are wondering why the FBI never took the server. Key background: Trump has frequently raised questions about the “missing DNC server” and why the FBI never got to look at it. As we’ve stated before, we stand by our findings and conclusions that have been fully supported by the US Intelligence community.”Ĭrucial quote: “The server, they say Ukraine has it,” Trump said on the phone call with Zelensky, according to records of the exchange.
The supposed evidence of Russia’s innocence relies on the belief that a DNC server has been hidden in Ukraine, possibly by CrowdStrike’s cofounder Dmitri Alperovitch.
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