The Report Part III: The Campaign & The Leaks
Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath
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🗓️ 2 August 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
It’s July 27, 2016. Donald Trump has just given a press conference during which he suggests that Russia hack Hillary Clinton and release the 30,000 allegedly missing emails from her private email server. The Russians, unbeknownst to people in the United States, appear to take the request seriously and hour later begin cyber-attacking Clinton’s private office for the first time.
Privately, Trump has instructions for his top aides: He repeatedly asks individuals affiliated with his Campaign to find the deleted Clinton emails too. His national security adviser, Michael Flynn, says Trump made this request repeatedly. And so Flynn acts on it, teaming up with a shadowy Republican political operative in an ill-fated attempt to track down a trove of Clinton emails from Russian hackers
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| 0:00.0 | Previously on the report. |
| 0:04.0 | Military intelligence, GRU, was engaged in hacking, |
| 0:07.0 | on democratic targets. |
| 0:09.0 | The GRU deploys this tactic known as spearfishing. |
| 0:12.0 | WikiLeaks and particularly its founder, Julian Assange, |
| 0:15.0 | privately expressed opposition to candidate Clinton |
| 0:18.0 | well before the release of the first stolen documents. |
| 0:21.0 | Time is of the essence here. |
| 0:23.0 | If you've got this material, we're the ones you want to give it to. |
| 0:26.0 | For the time to campaign winding down this new, |
| 0:28.0 | inappropriate video may hurt the Republican candidates' chances. |
| 0:32.0 | And you want to give it to us quickly. |
| 0:34.0 | And the reason why is a democratic national convention |
| 0:36.0 | where Hillary Clinton's going to be the nominee for president. |
| 0:47.0 | It's July 27, 2016. |
| 0:50.0 | Donald Trump has just given a press conference, |
| 0:53.0 | during which he suggests that Russia hacked Hillary Clinton |
| 0:57.0 | and released the 30,000 allegedly missing emails |
| 1:00.0 | from her private email server. |
| 1:03.0 | The Russians, unbeknownst to people in the United States, |
| 1:06.0 | appear to take the requests seriously. |
| 1:09.0 | An hours later, begins cyber attacking Clinton's private office |
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