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Misty » 11 Jul 2017 4:54 pm » wrote: First of all, It was not an HRC 'official' it was a Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee who got some dirt on Manafort from the Ukrainian embassy.

And she (Alexandra Chalupa) undertook her investigations into Trump, Manafort and Russia on her own.

She began researching Manafort’s role in Yanukovych’s rise, as well as his ties to the pro-Russian oligarchs who funded Yanukovych’s political party as part of some pro bono work she was doing for another client interested in the Ukrainian crisis.
The Clinton campaign may have used some of Chalupa's findings to their advantage, but they did not solicit them, and she was not working for the campaign.

She continued her research, on her own, even after she left her consulting gig at the DNC and was no longer being paid by them.

Curious that you believe that if HRC's campaign had solicited dirt on Manafort from Ukraine, that would be a felony, but when Fredo and two other top people on the Trump campaign are actually being shown to have solicited dirt on HRC from Russia, that's just an 'imagined fake crime.'

Double standard much?

Also from my source:
If Chelsea Clinton and her husband and John Podesta had conspired with a foreign entity, in order to gather oppo research on Trump, I would have no problem saying that was wrong.