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highplainsdem

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Thu Dec 15, 2016, 11:56 PM Dec 2016

Remember That Time New Trump Hire Monica Crowley Called On Putin to Hack State Dept. Emails?

Source: Mediaite

Earlier today, it was announced that Fox News analyst and conservative radio host Monica Crowley had been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be part of his national security council, joining up with another former Fox News alum, KT McFarland. Fox News terminated Crowley’s contract earlier in the day.

Well, considering all of the discussion about Russian hacking and its influence in the election, one of Crowley’s old tweets might come back to bite her in her new position.

I guess Putin is going to have to do it. RT "State Dept Won’t Release Clinton Fdn Emails for 27 Months https://t.co/mnECDBYdX0

— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) June 30, 2016


This tweet sounds pretty similar to comments Trump made at his last press conference in late July, where he invited Russia to search for Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails, telling them that they’d be rewarded by the press.

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Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/online/remember-that-time-new-trump-hire-monica-crowley-called-on-putin-to-hack-state-dept-emails/
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