By the FBI and DNC’s accounts, the Russian collusion story began with Crowdstrike claiming the Russians hacked the DNC servers in June of 2016. That is allegedly when they found out that Russia hacked the DNC.
Mr. Trump has long been focused on the whereabouts of the elusive server that CrowdStrike analysts examined in June 2016 and determined was breached by two Russian hacker groups.
“Why did the DNC REFUSE to turn over its Server to the FBI, and still hasn’t? It’s all a big Dem scam and excuse for losing the election!” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter in June 2017.
Here is the problem. The FBI says they started investigating Russian hacking after George Papadopoulos told Alexander Downer that Russia had hacked emails that could damage Hillary Clinton. But, that meeting took place in May, a month before anyone allegedly knew about the hacking.
During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, made a startling revelation to Australia’s top diplomat in Britain: Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.
It gets worse. George Papadopoulos found out about the emails three weeks before from Professor Joseph Mifsud. That means the Russian hacking story began nearly two months before the DNC was told of the Russian hacking. Does that make sense?
About three weeks earlier, Mr. Papadopoulos had been told that Moscow had thousands of emails that would embarrass Mrs. Clinton, apparently stolen in an effort to try to damage her campaign.
Obviously this timeline raises many more questions than answers. This tends to make one believe that the DNC was hacked by an insider and the weaponized law enforcement agencies under Barack Obama hatched a plan to blame it on the Russians. Who really stole the emails from the DNC? We may never know.
