by Ray McGovern Posted on
Clinton campaign manager Robbie Mook recently admitted under oath that prior to the 2016 election Mrs. Clinton personally approved feeding the media a bogus story that Donald Trump had a back channel to Alfa Bank in Moscow.
The online magazine Slate obliged on Oct. 31, 2016, a week before the election, with the desired story. As soon as the story appeared, Clinton tweeted about it, and posted a news release that said, “This secret hotline may be the key to unlocking the mystery of Trump’s ties to Russia.” (For more detail, see CNN’s: Hillary Clinton personally approved plan to share Trump-Russia allegation with the press in 2016, campaign manager says.)
As the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal put it after Mook spilled the beans in federal court:
The Russia-Trump collusion narrative of 2016 and beyond was a dirty trick for the ages, and now we know it came from the top – candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. … while this news is hardly a surprise, it’s still bracing to find her fingerprints on the political weapon.
I hope that those not satisfied with the generally sparse corporate coverage accorded the blatant “October Surprise” of Alfa Bank/Trump will be helped by what follows:
Lawyer David Sussmann, who was a key player in concocting the Alfa Bank-Trump legend, was on trial last week. He had been indicted for telling the FBI – orally and in writing — he was not working for any client while he peddled the Alfa Bank fable.
But Sussmann had been billing the Clinton campaign for his work on this. As for the FBI, it seems virtually certain that the Bureau was no more “shocked” at Sussmann’s lie than Casablanca’s Capt. Renault was at learning of “the gambling going on in here.” Despite these curiosities and the preponderance of evidence, a Washington, D.C., jury returned an innocent verdict (an outcome hardly unexpected, given the jury pool in Washington, where Clinton got 90 percent of the vote).
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