The latest in the president’s adversarial relationship with reality
The debunked Ukrainian election-interference theory is a belief among some on the far-right that because the Democratic National Committee and Crowdstrike, a firm hired by the DNC to investigate Russia’s attack on its servers during the lead-up to the 2016 election, didn’t provide the FBI with said servers, it signaled some sort of Deep State coverup aimed at pinning election interference on Russia.
“I would like you to do us a favor, though, because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it,” Trump told Zelensky, according to the readout of the call. “I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine. They say Crowdstrike … I guess you have one of your wealthy people … the server, they say Ukraine has it.”
The “they” to whom Trump is referring are Rudy Giuliani and other private advisers, not the intelligence community, which long ago concluded that Russia was behind the attack. Bossert wasn’t the only one who tried and failed to impress this upon the president. His story was backed up by former Trump aides who spoke to
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