HILLARY Clinton allegedly planned to “stir up a scandal” against Donald Trump in 2016 – connecting him with Vladimir Putin and Russia, according to a new letter.
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe wrote in a letter to Senator Lindsey Graham on Tuesday that Clinton “approved a campaign” to vilify Trump in 2016.
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At the time, Clinton was a candidate for president in the 2016 race.
Per Ratcliffe, Clinton’s alleged plan was to vilify Trump by tying him to Russian President Vladimir Putin “and the Russian’s hacking of the Democratic National Committee.”
The letter also addresses Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein, Mark Warner, and Adam Schiff, as well as Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Devin Nunes.
It further claims that former President Barack Obama was briefed of Clinton’s plan by the Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan.
The letter states that on September 7, 2016, officials forwarded an investigative referral to FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok about Clinton.
It apparently involved the “approval of a plan concerning U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private mail server.”
On Sunday, Graham spoke with Fox News and hinted at the possibility that Russia attempted to hurt Trump during the 2016 election.
“Everything Russia-Trump was looked at,” Graham said. “You had $25 million, 60 agents. You had subpoenas, you had people’s lives turned upside down.
“The question is, ‘Did they look at Russia coming after Trump?'”
Last month, former CIA and National Security Council official Fred Fleitz said he was told that Russia wanted Clinton to win the election.
“When I was briefed on the House Intelligence Committee report on the January 2017 ICA, I was told that John Brennan politicized this assessment by excluding credible intelligence that the Russians wanted Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election and ordered weak intelligence included that Russia wanted Trump to win,” he said.
He added that Brennan disregarded objections from CIA analysts and he fears what happened to them.
“These analysts are true whistleblowers, and they should come to the congressional intelligence committees to tell their stories and set the record straight on the ICA.”
