8 Aug 2017 2:15 pm
Because it's not true.Termin8tor » 08 Aug 2017 8:33 am » wrote:They directed the affair through a DNC official. They were involved.
Why are you trying to deny that, psycho?
They may have taken advantage of the info that was dug up about Paul Manafort by the Ukrainian American woman who worked as a consultant for the DNC, but they did NOT direct her to dig that stuff up, and the info was in the public domain anyway.
The former Democratic National Committee contractor at the center of allegations that Democrats worked with Ukrainian officials to dig up dirt on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump told CNN Friday that DNC officials never asked her to "go to the Ukrainian Embassy to collect information."
Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American activist and Democratic consultant for over a decade, is the latest in a line of Democrats, including multiple DNC officials and former Clinton campaign officials, to deny the claim.
It's a talking point the White House and other pro-Trump Republicans are using to deflect from Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a lawyer described to him in emails as a "Russian government lawyer."
"During the 2016 US election, I was a part time consultant for the DNC running an ethnic engagement program," Chalupa said in a lengthy statement to CNN.
"I was not an opposition researcher for the DNC, and the DNC never asked me to go to the Ukrainian Embassy to collect information."
Chalupa said Friday that because of her Ukrainian-American heritage she was aware of Paul Manafort's political consulting work for Victor Yanukovych, a former Ukrainian President with close ties to Moscow.
Manafort, a longtime Republican operative, was hired by Trump in March 2016.
"When it was announced that the Trump campaign hired Manafort, many Ukrainian-Americans were alarmed and concerned it was an early signal that Putin was trying to influence the US election," Chalupa said.
"At that time, I flagged for the DNC the significance of his hire based on information in the public domain."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/14/politics/ ... index.html