8 Aug 2017 6:42 pm
Yes, right wingnut sources I'm sure.Termin8tor » 08 Aug 2017 3:54 pm » wrote: ****. You don't have the slightest clue and would like if you did.
I've cited sources showing how the DNC official worked hand in hand with the HRC campaign.
Try reading the story on a site that is not a wingnut blog like gateway pundit or pajamas media.
A Ukrainian American Democratic operative named Alexandra Chalupa began looking into Manafort’s ties to Yanukovych as a part of her volunteer work in 2014, Politico reported.
Chalupa was hired as a consultant to the DNC during the 2016 campaign to help mobilize ethnic communities, including Ukrainian Americans.
She left the DNC in July 2016, the DNC said.
She continued her research into Manafort on her own, and she said she sometimes shared her findings with officials at the DNC and Clinton’s campaign, Politico reported.
Former Clinton campaign officials said they never received information from Chalupa.
The exact role of embassy officials is unclear.
Chalupa told Politico that officials at the Ukrainian Embassy were helpful in providing guidance to her questions, and that the embassy also worked with reporters researching Trump, Manafort and Russia.
A top embassy official denied working with reporters or with Chalupa on issues related to Trump or Manafort, but a former embassy officer said he was instructed to help Chalupa on her research.
DNC officials denied that they coordinated with Chalupa on opposition research.
Chalupa was not a researcher for the DNC, and the DNC did not incorporate her findings about Manafort, Politico reported.
DNC officials told Politico that the Democratic Party had been looking into Trump and his ties to Russia long before Chalupa alerted them.
Chalupa disputed the framing of the Politico story in a Facebook post.
“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.”
What actually ended up hurting the Trump campaign was information released through an anti-corruption investigation by a Ukrainian government agency, which released ledgers that reportedly showed $12.7 million in cash payments from Yanukovych’s party that were earmarked for Manafort.
Serhiy Leshchenko, a Ukrainian lawmaker and former investigative journalist, publicized these ledgers and criticized Manafort.
Ultimately, reports about these payments led to Manafort stepping down from his position as Trump campaign chairman.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fac ... eed680dd41