Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager testified that the campaign didn't instruct or authorize a lawyer to go to the FBI with claims of a potential data link between Trump and a Russian bank owned by Putin's allies
The manager of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid, Robby Mook, testified Friday that the campaign did not instruct or authorize a lawyer to go to the FBI with claims of a potential data link between then-candidate Donald Trump and a Russian bank owned by allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“We did not trust them,” the Clinton campaign manager said of the nation’s premier law enforcement agency. “Two or three of probably the most damaging days of the campaign were caused by James Comey, not by Donald Trump. ... We just did not want to have anything to do with the organization at that time.”
“I discussed it with Hillary as well,” Mook said. “She agreed to that. ... She thought we made the right decision.” However, Mook said the idea of a secret communications channel between Trump and Russia was disturbing, if true. “Opposition research on Donald Trump was really complicated,” the former campaign chief said. “He was incredibly litigious, so there was a lot of work to be done around different lawsuits that he filed or had been filed against him. ... Understanding what was a very opaque web of businesses internationally was incredibly complex. And so that piece of the work was assigned to Perkins Coie.”
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