White House aides say the president was repeatedly told the right-wing theory was groundless. He ignored them
doesn’t have a shred of merit. “It’s not only a conspiracy theory,” Bossert said. “It is completely debunked.”
The theory on the right is that Ukraine is responsible for the DNC hack, and that Kiev subsequently framed Russia for the whole ordeal, perhaps with the help of Democrats themselves. As theSunday, Bossert and other United States officials repeatedly told Trump that there was nothing to it, including in conversations just before his inauguration and shortly thereafter.
One former aide blamed Giuliani’s firm belief in the theory for the mess in which Trump now finds himself. The lawyer, the aide told the, would “feed Trump all kinds of garbage” that created “a real problem for all of us.” In an interview on Sunday, former Ukranian head prosecutorcase. “I told him I could not start an investigation just for the interests of an American official,” Lutsenko said of his dealings with Giuliani.
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