presidential election to benefit himself and hurt a political “ opponent.” The Democratic primaries will begin early next year, and Biden may or may not become the party’s nominee. Mulvaney’s invocation of Ukraine as the current location of the server echoed that which was made by President Trump in a Jphone call with Zelenskiy which Democrats interpreted to have signaled Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to launch, or reinvigorate, an investigation into current Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s dealings in the country involving his son, Hunter, who was given a prestigious position on the board of directors of a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma Holdings, at $50,000 a month.ĭemocrats have claimed Trump improperly attempted to involve a foreign country in a U.S. We got relevant forensic information from a private party, a high class entity, that had done the work but we didn’t get direct access.” Many Democrats believe that the release of the damaging emails cost Clinton the election.Īccording to then-FBI Director James Comey in January 2017, “The FBI requested direct access to the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) hacked computer servers but was denied.” On June 8, 2017, a month after he was fired, Comey said, “We did not have access to the devices themselves. 2016 presidential election.įollowing the alleged breach, thousands of emails from DNC officials and then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, were published by WikiLeaks in batches between July 2016 and Election Day. aid to Ukraine was “temporarily” delayed this summer as a result of the administration’s belief that the nation, whether or not known to its current president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is home to the oft-referenced computer server belonging to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and said to have been breached by Russians before the U.S. 17, 2019) - On Thursday afternoon, Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney gave a press conference in which he told reporters that he was “part of that process” by which U.S.
AS WITH OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE, MEDIA ASKS NO QUESTIONS, INVOKES “CONSPIRACY THEORY”īy Sharon Rondeau The White House, Thursday, October 17, 2019, Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney