Former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort passed internal campaign information to a Russian intelligence officer during the 2016 election, a new bipartisan Senate report concludes.
The committee found that Russian President Vladimir Putin was personally behind the hack and leak operation that published stolen Democratic Party emails, and that WikiLeaks — the website that published them — played a key role and"very likely knew it was assisting a Russian intelligence influence effort."
This took place at critical moments of the 2016 campaign, the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded.would be publishing a copy of the now-infamoustape, word got to Trump confidant Roger Stone — who tried to get a message to WikiLeaks through an intermediary so that it would publish hacked Democratic Party emails immediately.story was put online.
But it also said that the DNC did not take these warnings seriously enough, and that there was poor communication on both sides.
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