New York – The Democratic National Committee on Friday sued President Donald Trump’s campaign, Trump’s son, his son-in-law, the Russian Federation and Wikileaks, saying they conspired to help Trump win the 2016 presidential election by breaking into DNC computers and stealing tens of thousands of emails and documents.
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The lawsuit in Manhattan federal court sought unspecified damages and an order to prevent further interference with DNC computer systems.
“During the 2016 presidential campaign, Russia launched an all-out assault on our democracy, and it found a willing and active partner in Donald Trump’s campaign,” DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement. He called it an “act of unprecedented treachery.”
The lawsuit said Trump and his associates had existing relationships with Russia and Russian oligarchs that enabled creation of a Trump-Russia conspiracy.
Trump has said repeatedly that there was no collusion between his campaign and Russia.
The lawsuit alleges the “brazen attack on American democracy” began with a cyberattack on DNC computers and phone systems, allowing the extraction of tens of thousands of documents and emails. It said the assault enabled Russia to advance its own interests and support Trump.
The lawsuit accuses Donald Trump Jr. of secretly communicating with WikiLeaks, saying the president’s son was offered a password to an anti-Trump lawsuit in one exchange. The lawsuit blames the president too, saying he praised the illegal dissemination of DNC documents throughout fall 2016, making it a central theme of his speeches and rallies.
The lawsuit said Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was part of the conspiracy as a senior adviser and key decision-makers in the campaign. It said he began in June 2016 to control all campaign data-driven efforts, beginning with establishment of a 100-person “data hub” in San Antonio, Texas, and by hiring Cambridge Analytica, the social media and analytics firm.
The lawsuit said the conspiracy “inflicted profound damage upon the DNC,” costing it donations and preventing it from communicating the party’s values and vision to voters and sowing discord inside the Democratic party.
“The conspiracy constituted an act of previously unimaginable treachery: the campaign of the presidential nominee of a major party in league with a hostile foreign power to bolster its own chance to win the presidency,” the lawsuit said. “And, in carrying out this effort, defendants’ conspiracy to disseminate documents stolen from the DNC in violation of the laws of the United States as well as the laws of the state of Virginia and the District of Columbia. Under the laws of this nation, Russia and its co-conspirators must answer for these actions.”
Hillary please tell us if you will concede the elections if you lose? Or will you say it was rigged?
Hey you DemocRATS – Liberals – GET OVER IT – YOU LOST BIG TIME – with all these stupid moves against the fairly ELECTED PRESIDENT of the NEW UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – you’re gonna lose more seats in Congress
Deranged
DNC must be desperate for money if they have that kind of suit. Why don’t they sue the United States Citizens for voting for Trump instead of her who also helped her lose. They can’t figure out, it may have just been the candidate, period.
Watergate = Office break in = Nixon resigned = No Jail term
Trumpgate= Computer break in + collusion with a foreign power in the election….
+Stormygate + Personal Lawyer raided.
still no prove that the DNC servers were hacked let alone by the russians as no US intelligence or law enforcement agency has seen those servers
can we sue the dnc and the machashjefa in their collusion with the russians in the making of the dossier
Wow the dems are becoming unhinged! Now that they’re sure Mueller has absolutely nothing on the president, they’re trying a new direction for their witch hunt! Lol! Beautiful!!!!
indeed this is proof positive that Mueller’s investigation has turned up nothing about Trump, nor will it,,.,otherwise why wouldn’t the dems just wait for the investigation to conclude before pulling this new pathetic stunt? Dishonest beyond belief. Anyone who,could back these liars and phonies is just as lacking in integrity as they are!
Smart tactic. It will get interesting if the law suit survives the expected motions to dismiss, as I personally predict it will…and the plaintiffs get discovery.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. The Democrats are failing, so they are tilting at windmills for their very existence.
A year and a half later and they are still blaming the Russians. Time to move on and accept our president.
Oh that’s right I almost forgot it was the Dems that colluded, remember Fusion GPS? remember when Comey was ordered by Obama to exonerate Clinton? remember the Lynch meeting at the airport? I seem to remember these events. Funny, the DNC doesn’t seem to remember them.
I wish all their documents be subject to discovery. We will see who paid for the Steele dossier and who colluded with Russia and how the Clintons sold USA rights for money donations to their false Foundation for world Piece, a piece of the world to the Clintons.
Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders should be suing the Democrats since there is proof, publicly available, that they cheated him in many ways to prevent him from possibly getting the nomination.