Harry Reid: Trump Campaign Was 'In On' Wikileaks Efforts To Damage Clinton

[deminks]

In an exit interview with the Huffington Post, Senate Minority Harry Reid (D-NV) said that he believes that the Trump campaign was "in on" efforts to damage Hillary Clinton's campaign by using WikiLeaks.

“Someone in the Trump campaign organization was in on the deal. I have no doubt. Now, whether they told (Trump) or not, I don’t know. I assume they did. But there is no question about that,” Reid told the Huffington Post in an interview. “So there is collusion there, clearly.”

Reid's charge comes days after a secret CIA assessment concluded that Russia purposefully tampered with the presidential election in an effort to help Trump. Reid offered no new evidence to support his claims of collusion.

“Don’t put blindfolds on,” Reid told the Huffington Post. “Here is the deal: We have a situation where during the campaign, especially the last few months of the campaign, WikiLeaks was heavily involved in trying to hurt Hillary Clinton and it helped Trump. And you have Trump who said he likes Putin better than he likes Obama.”

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[uponit7771]

1. Hmmmm, this is kinda like the email issue; the more Benedict Donald talks about it the...

... more it stains his orange ass.

[boston bean]

2. Didn't Rudy Giuliani admit to this or Roger Stone did....

[Kolesar]

3. Giuliani said that he had advance knowledge that Comey was going to attack Clinton in October

that is what I recall.

[boston bean]

4. ah yeah, that may be it!

[boston bean]

5. It was Roger Stone who intimated about Podesta's email and wikileaks as in having known about it.

I have to go find the tweet.

Here is an article referencing it:

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2016/10/12/trump-ally-roger-stone-admits-back-channel-tie-to-wikileaks/

[Kolesar]

6. The Clinton campaign even made a statement about it

good catch

[Maru Kitteh]

7. Campaign man. & Putin associate Paul Manafort never left the Trump campaign

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/30/torture-lobbyist-paul-manafort-still-advising-donald-trump-on-cabinet-picks.html

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According to two sources with knowledge of the Trump presidential transition process, Manafort—whose formal association with the president-elect ended in August—is heavily involved with the staffing of the nascent administration.

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Amid a stream of investigative journalism scrutinizing his political work in Ukraine, of particular interest given Trump’s praise of autocratic Russian President Vladimir Putin, Manafort was axed and replaced by a combination of Steve Bannon, the president of Breitbart News, and Kellyanne Conway, a Republican pollster, who served as the campaign CEO and manager, respectively.
How far he faded into the margins of Trump’s orbit is unclear.

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“I think he’s weighing in on everything,” the former official said, “I think he still talks to Trump every day. I mean, Pence? That was all Manafort. Pence is on the phone with Manafort regularly.”

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