WASHINGTON - During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pushed the idea that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind the hack of the Democratic National Committee’s servers, Manafort’s deputy told investigators during the special counsel’s Russia probe. The unsubstantiated theory, advanced by President Donald Trump even after he took office, would later help trigger the impeachment inquiry now consuming the White House. The documents included summaries of interviews with other figures from the Mueller probe, including Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. Gates worked with Manafort in a lucrative international political consulting business that included Ukraine and later testified against him. The RNC would put out press releases to amplify the emails’ release, Gates told the FBI.

Source: thestar November 02, 2019 22:30 UTC