{"id":1488297,"date":"2022-05-23T10:28:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T14:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1488297"},"modified":"2022-05-23T10:28:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T14:28:12","slug":"musk-calls-out-2016-hillary-clinton-tweet-as-campaign-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-calls-out-2016-hillary-clinton-tweet-as-campaign-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk Calls Out 2016 Hillary Clinton Tweet As \u2018Campaign Hoax\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fmusk-calls-out-2016-hillary-clinton-tweet-as-campaign-hoax%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=1488297&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/02\/hrc-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Elon Musk, embroiled in his own scandal that he has dubbed \u201cElongate,\u201d jumped into the \u201cRussiagate\u201d story that has now found its way into a federal courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Musk called out as a \u201choax\u201d a tweet that two-time loser Hillary Clinton posted shortly before the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComputer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank,\u201d Clinton wrote in the October 31, 2016, tweet, which included a lengthy note from one of her then-top aides, Jake Sullivan, who now serves as President Joe Biden\u2019 national security adviser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis could be the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and Moscow. Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank,\u201d Sullivan wrote. \u201cThis secret hotline may be the key to unlocking the mystery of Trump\u2019s ties to Russia. It certainly seems the Trump Organization felt it had something to hide, given that it apparently took steps to conceal the link when it was discovered by journalists.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8f8n9xMzUU\">pic.twitter.com\/8f8n9xMzUU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton\/status\/793250312119263233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A user on Twitter asked Musk on Friday evening if he planned to crack down on disinformation if his deal to purchase Twitter is finalized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would be interested to know if, when you receive control over the company, anything was done with this at any level. Pls advise soonest,\u201d\u00a0the user wrote to Musk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are absolutely correct. That tweet is a Clinton campaign hoax for which their campaign lawyer is undergoing a criminal trial,\u201d Musk wrote, \u00a0linking to a story from the BBC story about the ongoing trial of Michael Sussmann, who served as an attorney for the Clinton campaign in 2016.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You are absolutely correct. That tweet is a Clinton campaign hoax for which their campaign lawyer is undergoing a criminal trial. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/avtjEdthmA\">https:\/\/t.co\/avtjEdthmA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1527720691264520192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As part of special prosecutor John Durham\u2019s probe into the case, he charged Sussmann with lying to the FBI when he met with an agent about former President Donald Trump\u2019s alleged ties to Russia. Durham and his team of prosecutors say Sussmann \u201cmanipulated\u201d the agency in an effort to alter the outcome of the election.<\/p>\n<p>During the trial last week, Clinton\u2019s campaign manager testified that Clinton personally authorized her campaign to share computer data \u2014 which has since been debunked \u2014 that purportedly linked Trump with a Russian bank.<\/p>\n<p>Robby Mook, her 2016 campaign manager who testified as a defense witness for Sussmann, said he spoke with Clinton about the supposed link, and said the discussion went like, \u201cHey, we have this and we want to share it with a reporter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe agreed to that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In his sworn testimony, Mook also acknowledged that the campaign didn\u2019t know if the data was true. \u201cPart of the point of giving it to a reporter was they could run it down further,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk, embroiled in his own scandal that he has dubbed \u201cElongate,\u201d jumped into the \u201cRussiagate\u201d story that has now found its way into a federal courtroom.Over the weekend, Musk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1488311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488297","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\/1488297","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1488311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}