Newly declassified documents reveal Hillary Clinton approved a plan during her 2016 campaign to link Donald Trump to Russia, aiming to distract from her email scandal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The strategy, proposed by advisor Julianne Smith, involved \u201craising the theme of \u2018Putin\u2019s support for Trump\u2019\u201d and equating it with election interference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One memo states, \u201cClinton approved a plan\u2026 to smear Donald Trump by magnifying the scandal tied to the intrusion by the Russian special services.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sen. Chuck Grassley said, \u201cThe Obama FBI failed to adequately review\u2026 the Clinton campaign may have been ginning up the fake Trump-Russia narrative.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Other declassified files showed U.S. intelligence told President Obama in 2016 that \u201cRussian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Reporter Paul Sperry wrote, \u201cThere are texts\/emails indicating Hillary Clinton campaign aides directly coordinated with the Obama White House\u2026 to dig up dirt tying Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Clinton Approved Plan to Smear Trump with Russia Ties, Declassified Docs Show Newly declassified documents reveal Hillary Clinton approved a plan during her 2016 campaign to link Donald Trump to Russia, aiming to distract from her email scandal. The strategy, proposed by advisor Julianne Smith, involved \u201craising the theme of \u2018Putin\u2019s support for Trump\u2019\u201d and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2904,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions\/2904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}