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Published secret documents: Trump's campaign team in 2016 sought stolen mails from the Democrats

2019-11-02T23:49:46.335Z


US media have successfully sued for the publication of unpublished documents from the Mueller investigation. They prove that Trump's campaign team tried to get emails from Wikileaks in 2016 that would hurt Hillary Clinton.



Investigative documents issued by the US Department of Justice reveal new insights into Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. According to him, Donald Trump and his campaign team in 2016 sought e-mails from the Democrats owned by Wikileaks to harm their rival Hillary Clinton. The CNN and the news site "Buzzfeed" reported this, citing almost 300 pages of documents relating to Robert Mueller's investigations. The media houses had sued successfully for the release of the documents.

"Buzzfeed News" published the alleged documents on its website. They are "heavily edited", but are still full of new details, wrote "Buzzfeed" reporter Jason Leopold on Twitter.

BREAKING: In response to my / @ BuzzFeedNews #FOIA lawsuit, the government just released a cache of FBI 302 reports from the Mueller sample: Steve Bannon, Michael Cohen, Rick Gates and more. Heavily redacted but chock full of NEW details. https://t.co/dlLyatlcbC

- Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) November 2, 2019

In the first installment of the document, Trump's deputy campaign chief Rick Gates is quoted as saying that Trump, his son-in-law, and several executives were hoping for e-mail. Foreign policy adviser Michael Flynn - who later became President Trump's first national security adviser for a short time - should have used his contacts in the intelligence community to get the emails, Gates continued. Flynn also had the best Russian contacts, the investigators wrote in the report.

Thousands of e-mails from a Democratic server had been stolen by Russia, US intelligence confirmed later. The Wikileaks publication of the emails, which showed, among other things, the internal power struggles of the Democrats, harmed Clinton in the months leading up to the presidential election in November 2016.

Mueller had been investigating for about two years whether Trump's team had made arrangements with representatives of Russia. It was also about whether Trump later, when he was already US President, obstructed the investigation of the judiciary. At the end of March, Mueller completed his work. His final report has so far only been published in blackened form. Mueller did not find sufficient evidence of collusion by the Trump team with representatives of Russia. Background of the investigation was the alleged interference of Moscow in the US election campaign 2016.

Source: spiegel

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