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Trump aide said Ukraine behind Democratic party hack: Documents


WASHINGTON: Documents released by the US Department of Justice on Saturday indicated that a top advisor to then-candidate Donald Trump (pix) said as early as the summer of 2016 that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind a hack of Democratic party emails.Trump and his surrogates have suggested that Kiev hacked Democratic National Committee servers and planted evidence to frame Russia, as a way of undermining the legitimacy of the US leader’s election.Trump has pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate that debunked conspiracy theory as well as his election rival Joe Biden – a move at the crux of an impeachment investigation against …read more

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