I guess you have one of your wealthy people. According to a reconstructed transcript of the call released by the White House, which is not a verbatim account, he said:“I would like to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say CrowdStrike. One key figure in this supposed conspiracy: CrowdStrike, a security firm hired by the DNC that detected and analyzed the hack five months before the 2016 election.Kent said Wednesday that he hadn’t even heard of the theory until a whistleblower alerted the public to a July 25 call between Trump and the Ukrainian president.Here’s how the call brought the debunked theory back into currency.During that July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Trump made a brief and cryptic reference to CrowdStrike. The DNC was first alerted to the hack by the FBI in September 2015.In broad outline, the theory contends, without evidence, that the 2016 hacking of the Democratic National Committee was a setup somehow perpetrated with Ukrainian complicity in which computer records were fabricated to cast blame on Russia. The DNC contacted CrowdStrike to respond to a suspected cyber attack impacting its network. Trump asked Zelensky for the favor of looking into the whole situation with Ukraine in essence asking him to help investigate the origins of Mueller’s.
Those who believe Trump should be impeached say there is ample evidence the aid was frozen in order to pressure Zelenskiy to investigate political rival Joe Biden’s son’s business activities in Ukraine.“The look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation,” Mulvaney said.“Did he also mention to me in the past the corruption that related to the DNC server? Absolutely, no question about that,” he added. And some political actors see a benefit to encouraging them.“Who can know the truth in these conditions? No one,” said Donovan, who directs the Kennedy School’s technology and social change research project.CrowdStrike said in a statement that it “provided all forensic evidence and analysis to the FBI.” It added: “We stand by our findings and conclusions that have been fully supported by the US Intelligence community.”In October, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said the Trump administration’s decision to hold up military aid to Ukraine was linked to his demand that Kyiv investigate the DNC and the 2016 campaign. It’s incredible.”The reference raises questions about Trump’s ability — or, perhaps, willingness — to sort between fact and fiction, analysts say.“If we take Trump’s words at face value, then it appears that the president of the United States is intellectually unable to distinguish between utterly outlandish conspiracy theories and solid intelligence assessments based on facts,” said Thomas Rid, a Johns Hopkins security studies professor.Joan Donovan of Harvard University said conspiracy theories generally have two principal attributes: They simplify matters and lack attribution. Why didn’t they allow the FBI in to investigate the server? I mean, there is so many things that nobody writes about. But they brought in another company to investigate the server.
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