whom the Russians believe have committed crimes in Russia. would be willing to reciprocate with those in the U.S. Putin said Mueller could send questions for the 12 indicted Russian military intelligence officers and potentially attend interviews if the U.S. He offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with respect to the 12 people,” Trump said. officials to work with Russian investigators to question those whom special counsel Robert Mueller indicted.
“So I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today, Trump told Lemire. I think it’s a disgrace that we can’t get Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 e-mails,” he said. I think in Russia they wouldn’t be gone so easily. “Thirty-three thousand emails gone - just gone. He also asked what happened to the emails from Clinton’s home-brewed email server that she said were personal and could not be recovered. “What happened to the servers of the Pakistani gentleman that worked on the DNC? Where are those servers? They’re missing. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s former IT aide, Imran Awan, who went missing. Trump also said he wanted to see the House Democratic Caucus server handled by former DNC chairwoman Rep. Crowdstrike attributed the hacking to two Russian groups, Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear. The DNC refused to turn over its server to authorities, and, instead, had a private company, Crowdstrike, examine it for forensic evidence. But I really do want to see the server,” he said. “I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be. Trump said he had confidence in both parties but added he would like to see the DNC hand over its server. intelligence agencies that say Russia interfered in the election or Putin’s assertion that Russia did not and if he would denounce that interference and tell Putin to never do it again. cybersecurity firm.ĬrowdStrike helped the DNC investigate an intrusion of its systems that the firm eventually blamed on two Russian hacking groups, but there are no missing servers despite Trump’s allegation that one somehow ended up in Ukraine, a theory popular among conservative conspiracy theorists.Īccording to a transcript of the July call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, which was released by the White House on Wednesday, Trump asked Zelenskiy to “find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine” as it relates to CrowdStrike and the purported missing server.Associated Press reporter Jonathan Lemire asked Trump if he believed U.S. In the complaint, released publicly on Thursday following a prolonged struggle between the White House and Democrats in Congress, the whistleblower said he or she did not understand Trump’s request that Ukraine locate and turn over a server used by the DNC during the 2016 presidential election and subsequently examined by CrowdStrike, a U.S. election wrote in a complaint that he or she was unsure why Trump also asked the foreign leader to turn over a hacked computer server belonging to the Democratic National Committee. The whistleblower accusing President Donald Trump of pressuring the president of Ukraine to influence the 2020 U.S.