Manafort Spread Ukraine Conspiracy Theory
"fbi and trump" - Google News: Manafort Spread Ukraine Conspiracy Theory Months Before 2016 Election - The New York Times FBI from mikenova (19 sites) 7h // keep unread // hide INSIGHTS Add note WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, spread a conspiracy theory now at the center of the impeachment investigation — that Ukraine, not Russia, hacked the Democratic National Committee — as early as five months before the 2016 election, according to newly released documents from the special counsel’s investigation. Mr. Manafort told his deputy on the campaign about the theory shortly after emails stolen from the Democrats were published in June 2016, and questions arose about whether Russia hacked the emails to help the Trump campaign, according to the documents. The documents have no information about when Mr. Trump embraced the conspiracy theory, which he later asked Ukraine’s
