Exclusive: DNC oppo researcher looking into Manafort had her personal email hacked by Russians https://t.co/1u4CP0TOk6 via @Yahoo
— John Weaver (@JWGOP) July 25, 2016
From the article:
Just weeks after she started preparing opposition research files on Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort last spring, Democratic National Committee consultant Alexandra Chalupa got an alarming message when she logged into her personal Yahoo email account.
“Important action required,” read a pop-up box from a Yahoo security team that is informally known as “the Paranoids.” “We strongly suspect that your account has been the target of state-sponsored actors.”
Chalupa — who had been drafting memos and writing emails about Manafort’s connection to pro-Russian political leaders in Ukraine — quickly alerted top DNC officials. “Since I started digging into Manafort, these messages have been a daily occurrence on my Yahoo account despite changing my password often,” she wrote in a May 3 email to Luis Miranda, the DNC’s communications director, which included an attached screengrab of the image of the Yahoo security warning.
“I was freaked out,” Chalupa, who serves as director of “ethnic engagement” for the DNC, told Yahoo News in an interview, noting that she had been in close touch with sources in Kiev, Ukraine, including a number of investigative journalists, who had been providing her with information about Manafort’s political and business dealings in that country and Russia…
cc @franklinfoer: I asked Tom Cotton about Trump-Putin. He said relations will cool once Trump gets classified intel https://t.co/YecUIW1iUT
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) July 23, 2016
Republican party’s first semi-official 2020 presidential candidate ‘Freedom Coalition’ leader asked about credible reports that Trump is being spoon-fed disinformation by Putin, says, ‘Yeah, but wait’ll he finds out what a nasty fella Vlad really is.’
Let the insanity of this sink in https://t.co/sEu8RCNam9
— Greg Pinelo (@gregpinelo) July 24, 2016
Can you imagine the non-stop BREAKING chyrons if anyone who had so much as taken a selfie with Hillary Clinton said something like this to a reporter?
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