{"id":832552,"date":"2021-09-30T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=832552"},"modified":"2021-09-30T18:14:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T22:14:04","slug":"clinton-attorney-briefed-jake-sullivan-on-trump-russia-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/clinton-attorney-briefed-jake-sullivan-on-trump-russia-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Attorney Briefed Jake Sullivan on Trump-Russia Conspiracy"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fclinton-attorney-briefed-jake-sullivan-on-trump-russia-conspiracy%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=832552&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 readability=\"28.842105263158\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Biden national security adviser pushed collusion claims after they were debunked<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234835604-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234835604-736x491.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234835604-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234835604-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234835604-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234835604-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234835604-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234835604-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tWhite House national security adviser Jake Sullivan (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 September 30, 2021 6:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"84.898725906566\">\n<p>An attorney for the Clinton campaign exchanged emails with Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan regarding a discredited theory of Trump-Russia collusion at the center of an ongoing special counsel investigation, the <em>New York Times <\/em>reports.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Marc Elias exchanged emails with Sullivan and other Clinton campaign officials on Sept. 15, 2016, regarding a purported link between the computer servers of Donald Trump\u2019s real estate company and the Russian oligarch-owned Alfa Bank, the <em>Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/30\/us\/politics\/trump-alfa-bank-indictment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. Elias and Michael Sussmann, partners at the firm Perkins Coie, shared the data with the FBI and journalists as part of an effort to publicize allegations that the Trump campaign was working with Russia to influence the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan\u2019s knowledge of the lawyers\u2019 activities raises questions about what else he knew of the effort to push the now-debunked collusion theory. His involvement in peddling the theory is also opening him up to allegations that he pushed election disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Sussmann is charged with lying to the FBI\u2019s general counsel during a meeting on Sept. 19, 2016, regarding the purported Alfa-Trump link. Special Counsel John Durham <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/indictment-clinton-crony-lied-to-fbi-to-spread-trump-russia-smear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> Sussmann of lying when he allegedly claimed he was not sharing the data with the FBI on behalf of a client. In reality, he was representing the Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and a tech executive who hoped to land a position in a future Clinton administration. The executive and a group of computer scientists claimed to have stumbled across computer records showing suspicious activity between Alfa and Trump\u2019s company.<\/p>\n<p>Alfa Bank has vehemently denied the allegations and claims that someone fabricated data linking the company to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The Sussmann indictment describes a series of interactions between Sussmann, Elias, journalists, and the computer researchers. Elias and the researchers have not been charged in the investigation. CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/09\/30\/politics\/durham-subpoenas-probe-russia-fbi-sussman\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> on Thursday that Durham recently subpoenaed Perkins Coie. The National Security Council has not responded to questions about whether Sullivan has been contacted by Durham.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan publicly touted the Alfa-Trump allegation days before the 2016 election. He issued <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton\/status\/793250312119263233\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement<\/a> on Oct. 31, 2016, citing a story in <em>Slate<\/em> that laid out the evidence for an Alfa-Trump link. Sullivan said the &#8220;secret hotline&#8221; between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank &#8220;may be the key to unlocking the mystery of Trump\u2019s ties to Russia.&#8221; It was later revealed that Sussmann was a key source for the <em>Slate<\/em> article. It is unclear if Sullivan or others on the Clinton campaign helped with the story.<\/p>\n<p>Though the FBI had determined by February 2017 that there was not a secret link between Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization, Sullivan repeatedly alleged a nefarious connection. In <a href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/sitroom\/date\/2017-03-17\/segment\/01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an interview<\/a> on March 17, 2017, he told CNN that &#8220;very serious computer science experts&#8221; had uncovered &#8220;a secret hotline&#8221; between the Russian bank and Trump\u2019s company.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Administration Biden national security adviser pushed collusion claims after they were debunked  White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images) &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832552","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\/832552","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}