{"id":1485992,"date":"2022-05-20T14:16:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T18:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1485992"},"modified":"2022-05-20T15:24:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T19:24:48","slug":"hillary-clinton-personally-approved-spreading-trump-russia-disinformation-to-media-former-campaign-manager-testifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillary-clinton-personally-approved-spreading-trump-russia-disinformation-to-media-former-campaign-manager-testifies\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton Personally Approved Spreading Trump-Russia Disinformation To Media, Former Campaign Manager Testifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhillary-clinton-personally-approved-spreading-trump-russia-disinformation-to-media-former-campaign-manager-testifies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1485992&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Hillary Clinton\u2019s former campaign manager testified Friday that the then-Democratic presidential nominee personally approved spreading material that claimed the Trump organization had a secret communications channel with a Russian bank to the media.<\/p>\n<p>Robby Mook, Clinton\u2019s former campaign manager, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/27\/npr-interview-david-kramer-leaked-steele-dossier-buzzfeed-news-prevent-donald-trump-inauguration\/\">testified<\/a> Friday in special counsel John Durham\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/17\/look-leak-lie-john-durham-prosecutor-michael-sussmann\/\">case<\/a> against former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann. At one point, Mook was pressed about the level of understanding within the campaign regarding allegations that the Trump organization had a secret connection with Alfa Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Mook was also pressed on whether the campaign was going to distribute such allegations to members of the press, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/hillary-clinton-approved-trump-russian-bank-allegations-sussmann-trial\">according<\/a> to Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Mook admitted that former campaign general counsel Marc Elias first informed him of the Alfa Bank situation, and also said the Clinton campaign was unsure whether the data was legitimate.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobbyMook?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RobbyMook<\/a> testifies <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HillaryClinton<\/a> herself approved the dissemination of info alleging a covert communications channel between the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Trump?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Trump<\/a> Organization &#038; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Russia?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Russia<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AlfaBank?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AlfaBank<\/a> to the media, despite camp. officials not being \u201ctotally confident\u201din its legitimacy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SussmannTrial?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SussmannTrial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brooke Singman (@BrookeSingman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrookeSingman\/status\/1527677734062809088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The former campaign manager continued on to say that discussions about giving the information to reporters happened amongst multiple senior campaign officials \u2013 and, most notably, the then-Democratic presidential nominee herself. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/19\/former-fbi-james-baker-john-durham-confident-michael-sussmann\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Former FBI Official Testifies In Durham Case, Says He\u2019s \u2018Confident\u2019 Sussmann Denied Acting On Behalf Of Client)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI discussed it with Hillary as well,\u201d Mook said, according to Fox News. \u201cI don\u2019t remember the substance of the conversation, but notionally, the discussion was, \u2018hey, we have this and we want to share it with a reporter.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mook also admitted that \u201cshe [Hillary Clinton] agreed\u201d to have the information spread out to the media. While he expressed uncertainty in when, exactly, Clinton was briefed on the idea, he noted that he remembered \u201cthat she agreed with the decision,\u201d Fox News reported.<\/p>\n<p>Sussmann,\u00a0a Democratic lawyer with ties to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/14\/trump-clinton-fbi-russia-collusion-durham\/\">Hillary Clinton\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0presidential campaign, was charged last year by <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/06\/john-durham-hillary-clinton-disinformation-joe-biden-governance-board\/\">Durham<\/a>\u00a0with <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/06\/john-durham-hillary-clinton-disinformation-joe-biden-governance-board\/\">lying<\/a> to the FBI during a 2016 meeting.\u00a0Friday\u2019s testimony came one day after U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/19\/judge-denies-michael-sussmann-mistrial-request-john-durham-case\/\">denied<\/a>\u00a0the defense\u2019s motion for a mistrial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton\u2019s former campaign manager testified Friday that the then-Democratic presidential nominee personally approved spreading material that claimed the Trump organization had a secret communications channel with a Russian bank<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":1486027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1486027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}