A new report found Ukraine was trying to influence the US election in favor of Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton met with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in September. (AFP)
The report by Politico found that Ukraine was trying to sabotage Trump and help Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump wasn’t the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country.
Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.
A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.
Let’s see if this gets any press.
Via Varney and Co.:
Conservative activist Mike Cernovich reported on this weeks ago.
Remember when I talked about Ukraine? Months ahead of fake news! https://t.co/OXFB6ZnRec
— Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸 (@Cernovich) January 11, 2017
