{"id":1488612,"date":"2022-05-23T14:15:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T18:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1488612"},"modified":"2022-05-23T14:15:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T18:15:25","slug":"should-be-held-fully-accountable-republicans-hammer-clinton-for-peddling-false-russia-collusion-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/should-be-held-fully-accountable-republicans-hammer-clinton-for-peddling-false-russia-collusion-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Should Be Held Fully Accountable\u2019: Republicans Hammer Clinton For Peddling False Russia Collusion Claims"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fshould-be-held-fully-accountable-republicans-hammer-clinton-for-peddling-false-russia-collusion-claims%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=1488612&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--><p>GOP lawmakers hammered former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after her former campaign manager revealed her central role in disseminating false claims about former President Donald Trump and Russia\u2019s Alfa-Bank during the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Court testimony in the trial of cybersecurity attorney Michael Sussmann revealed that Clinton personally approved the dissemination of later-debunked claims of a secret backchannel between the Trump Organization and Russia\u2019s Alfa-Bank to the press. Clinton\u2019s 2016 campaign manager, Robby Mook, said that the Clinton campaign\u2019s evidence of the backchannel was dubious, but Clinton approved sending it to reporters anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHillary Clinton and Jake Sullivan knew the Trump-Russia collusion dossier was false but pretended to play dumb with the American people,\u201d Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarshaBlackburn\/status\/1527739050039328768\">said<\/a>. Sullivan, currently the White House national security adviser, worked on Clinton\u2019s 2016 campaign as a senior policy adviser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone involved in cooking up the false Trump-Russian collusion narrative should be held fully accountable \u2014 including Hillary Clinton,\u201d she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarshaBlackburn\/status\/1528740582348271618\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said in a radio interview over the weekend that Mook\u2019s testimony is a \u201cmajor scandal\u201d and has shown that Clinton\u2019s involvement in the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory is greater than previously known, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/22\/sen-johnson-says-sussmann-trial-reveals-clinton-corruption\/\">The New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey used individuals who had contracts with our Defense Department to mine this data and develop some kind of inference that Trump was colluding with Russia so that they could report that to the FBI [which could then] \u2026 report that to the American public as an October surprise,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>Special counsel John Durham has argued that Sussmann went to the FBI on behalf of the Clinton campaign to generate a federal investigation into Trump\u2019s alleged connections to Alfa-Bank, and in the process, make the Alfa-Bank story more palatable to reporters. Sussmann, charged with lying to the FBI about representing the Clinton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP lawmakers hammered former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after her former campaign manager revealed her central role in disseminating false claims about former President Donald Trump and Russia\u2019s Alfa-Bank during the 2016 presidential election. 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