{"id":19187,"date":"2017-01-11T06:53:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T06:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=19187"},"modified":"2017-01-11T06:59:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T06:59:14","slug":"clinton-allies-react-to-reports-on-russia-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/politics\/clinton-allies-react-to-reports-on-russia-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"Clinton allies react to reports on Russia, Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"Justify\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Clinton allies react to reports on Russia, Trump<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Clinton allies react to reports on Russia, Trump:-<\/strong> Hillary Clinton\u2019s former campaign team is seizing on news reports that the Russian government has obtained potentially compromising personal and financial information about President-elect Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Brian Fallon and Josh Schwerin, who both served as Clinton spokesmen, underscored a series of memos outlining the information meant the Kremlin could be in a position to blackmail the next U.S. leader. All of them reacted via Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cThis is only credible theory for why Trump refuses to accept intelligence community&#8217;s finding that Russia was behind hacks,\u201d Fallon said. He was referring to Trump\u2019s repeated refusal to publicly accept the findings of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russian President Vladimir Putin is behind the hacking of Clinton\u2019s campaign chairman and the Democratic National Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Trump is scheduled on Wednesday to hold his first formal news conference since July. \u201cNo matter what he tweets in next 24 hours, Trump must be interrogated about Russia more than anything else at his press conference,\u201d said Fallon.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is only credible theory for why Trump refuses to accept intel community&#39;s finding that Russia was behind hacks<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NL3xP9ST77\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/NL3xP9ST77<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianefallon\/status\/818949005006766081\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Schwerin also suggested Russia may seek to blackmail Trump with information it may have obtained. \u201cThere\u2019s a reason all presidential candidates traditionally release tax returns and have full financial transparency. Blackmail should be impossible,\u201d said Schwerin. Jesse Ferguson, also a campaign spokesman, said &#8220;could we really go from our first black male president to our first blackmailed president?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There\u2019s a reason all pres candidates traditionally release tax returns and have full financial transparency. Blackmail should be impossible<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Josh Schwerin (@JoshSchwerin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshSchwerin\/status\/818951600727293952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Others, including Clinton&#8217;s 2008 campaign manager, Neera Tanden, suggested Trump\u2019s Russia ties could be documented in his tax returns, which he still has not released.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkraju\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@mkraju<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJentleson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AJentleson<\/a> All that needs to be said <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x2tE7elL0N\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/x2tE7elL0N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Liesel Burks (@lburks226) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lburks226\/status\/818967983393480709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The role Russia played in influencing the outcome of the 2016 election is a major frustration for the Clinton team, which had long argued that hacked emails obtained by WikiLeaks were traceable to Russia and being deliberately distributed to hurt Clinton\u2019s campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Former Harry Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson also took to Twitter on Tuesday to say that the former Senate Democratic leader had seen the documents before writing an October letter to FBI Director James Comey about Trump\u2019s ties to Russia. The letter asserted that Comey was in possession of \u201cexplosive information\u201d about close ties and coordination between Trump, his top advisers and the Russian government.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Couldn&#39;t we help figure some of this out if he released his taxes&#8230;. oh yeah, maybe that&#39;s why he never did.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neeratanden\/status\/818989890406928388\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/01\/10\/clinton-allies-react-reports-russia-trump\/96421732\/<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/politics\/clinton-allies-react-to-reports-on-russia-trump.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinton allies react to reports on Russia, Trump Clinton allies react to reports on Russia, Trump:- Hillary Clinton\u2019s former campaign team is seizing on news reports that the Russian government has obtained potentially compromising personal and financial information about President-elect Donald Trump. 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