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U.S. presidential campaign mired in Russia intervention

Posted July. 26, 2016 07:02,   

Updated July. 26, 2016 07:11

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With the Democratic National Convention that will officially nominate Hillary Clinton soon to take off, the Democratic Party is mired in an internal discord on the fairness of the acts of the Democratic National Committee. Claims spread that Russia has intervened in U.S. presidential campaign to support Republican Party candidate Donald Trump, creating a windstorm.

It all started when WikiLeaks released Saturday 19,252 emails from seven leaders of the U.S. Democratic National Committee covering the period from January 2015 through May 25, 2016. Through emails, the party leadership said they will attack Jewish Bernie Sanders over religious issues, among other topics, raising suspicion that the committee sided with Clinton. In response, Sanders supporters are strongly protesting now.

As the situation took for the worse, Sanders told CNN Sunday that this directly shows the Democratic National Committee's prejudice on him, urging Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz step down saying she is disqualified. Shultz said she will step down immediately after the convention.

The Clinton camp said email hacking was done by a Russian group. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook told ABC and CNN that experts said Russian government agents hacked emails and opened them to help the Trump.

The White House also had discussed the issue upon being reported on Thursday that Russia hacked the committee prior to the release of the emails by WikiLeaks. Russian hackers also had in June hacked the committee's documents on Trump and released them.



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