John Solomon of Hill.com spoke of this the other day in a TV interview -- transcript not up yet. And he has written about it in As Russia collusion fades, Ukrainian plot to help Clinton emerges. Excerpt:
Ukraine’s top prosecutor divulged in an interview aired Wednesday on Hill.TV that he has opened an investigation into whether his country’s law enforcement apparatus intentionally leaked financial records during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign about then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in an effort to sway the election in favor of Hillary Clinton.
The leak of the so-called black ledger files to U.S. media prompted Manafort’s resignation from the Trump campaign and gave rise to one of the key allegations in the Russia collusion probe that has dogged Trump for the last two and a half years.
Ukraine Prosecutor General Yurii Lutsenko’s probe was prompted by a Ukrainian parliamentarian's release of a tape recording purporting to quote a top law enforcement official as saying his agency leaked the Manafort financial records to help Clinton's campaign.
The parliamentarian also secured a court ruling that the leak amounted to “an illegal intrusion into the American election campaign,” Lutsenko told me. Lutsenko said the tape recording is a serious enough allegation to warrant opening a probe, and one of his concerns is that the Ukrainian law enforcement agency involved had frequent contact with the Obama administration’s U.S. Embassy in Kiev at the time.
Democrats were so open to any suggestion of Trump impropriety that they were willing to believe anything, no matter how preposterous. So to set an example, conservatives would do well to wait for the facts. But it doesn't seem like too far a stretch to believe that the Clinton campaign would have been happy to accept Ukrainian help.
Now that Robert Mueller, the most famous investigator since Sherlock Holmes, has wrapped up the investigation of Trump, he should hone his skills on the issues surrounding Clinton.
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1:51 PM 4/1/2019
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