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The SVR also “possessed a campaign email discussing a plan approved by Secretary Clinton to link Putin and Russian hackers to candidate Trump in order to ‘distract the [American] public’ from the Clinton email server scandal.”
Gabbard had given a long remark on previously disclosed papers during a White House press briefing the day before. These documents, she said, proved that former President Barack Obama’s government was orchestrating a “coup” against then-President-elect Donald Trump. Gabbard accused the Obama administration of pushing the idea that Russia and Trump collaborated to influence the 2016 election.