The indictment is vague concerning the unnamed congressional campaign, saying only: “On or about August 15, 2016, the [Russian internet hacker] Conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, received a request for stolen documents from a candidate for U.S. Congress. The Conspirators responded using the Guccifer 2.0 persona and sent the candidate stolen documents related to the candidate's opponent.”
At that point in the 2016 election cycle, first-time candidate Mast was embroiled in a six-way GOP primary, which he won Aug. 30 with 38 percent of the vote. He then defeated Democrat Randy Perkins in the general election.
Perry points out the campaign didn’t use some of the more vicious information it had against Perkins, and he said he was unaware of any hacking inquiries made by the campaign. He said he started after the primary and didn’t have contact with Mast’s former political consultant, Anthony Bustamante, who last year told reporters that he used hacked information from Guccifer 2.0.
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“There’s no actual information whatsoever linked to us,” said Stewart, blaming Democrats for spreading the story for political advantage in the district, one of Florida’s few congressional swing seats.
“A: It’s speculation it was [contracted political consultant]Anthony [Bustamonte]; I have no idea if that’s the case,” Stewart said. “And B: if it was him, it was 100 percent not related to our campaign at all.”
So basically, at this point it's speculation, and if it was a Republican campaign, they unknowingly bought information from a Russian hacker (Guccifer 2.0), and didn't even use the worst dirt that they could have. IF.
But the headline implies a more deliberate and malicious conspiracy.
Politico = Washington Post reporters = Trump-hating Democrat ally liberal media
This article glosses over the criminality that was exposed within the DNC at the highest level, and especially Debbi Wasserman-Bitch-Cunt-Schultz. I'm AMAZED this woman has the nerve to remain in politics, and that the human cattle in her district still vote for her, after she rigged the 2016 primary for Hillary and against Sanders. Her being immediately hired after her forced resignation as DNC chair just highlights the shameless corruption and malice at the very heart of the DNC and Clinton campaign. But don't expect the liberal media to ever expose that.
