“Nobody looking at the evidence disputes that.” “Of course Russia interfered in our election,” he said. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on “Meet the Press” on Sunday. So what the president’s defenders are doing is waving away the actual matter Trump asked about - CrowdStrike - and stitching together enough random bits to claim Ukraine meddled just enough to make the president’s “concerns” seem legitimate. And, to that end, they dealt a devastating blow to her campaign by hacking the DNC server and pinning it on Russia. According to Trump’s own theory, Ukraine meddled on behalf of Hillary Clinton. The problem is that no one can take this CrowdStrike craziness seriously. It’s his “Achilles’ heel” his former aide Hope Hicks told the FBI in recently released interview notes.
Mueller III, has confirmed Russia’s interference on his behalf because he thinks it robs glory from his victory. He detests the fact that everyone, starting with the CIA and continuing through Robert S. Trump isn’t pushing this canard because it’s Russian propaganda, but because it’s Trumpian propaganda. (It’s not there and there were actually scores of servers.) Before Trump pressed Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden, he first asked him to get to the bottom of CrowdStrike. The president subscribes to a fever swamp illusion that goes by the shorthand “CrowdStike.” This potted conspiracy theory holds that the Ukrainians were really the ones to hack the DNC, and the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike somehow colluded in hiding the server somewhere in Ukraine.
They’re trying to legitimize Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine, but it takes some huge leaps of faith. While the effort is a propaganda gift for Russian President Vladimir Putin, they’re pushing this piffle to show they’ve got the president’s back amid the impeachment drama. To make the case, the Ukraine conspiracy theorists take a handful of anecdotes about individual Ukrainians and insinuate or insist this thin gruel amounts to something as sinister as the Russian effort. He was actually born in Azerbaijan, then a part of the Soviet Union. Also, the story said he was born in Russia. 11, 2019 An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of former chess champion Garry Kasparov.