The Report, Episode III: The Campaign and the Leaks
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While Trump campaign officials engaged with the Russian social media manipulation operation as unwitting dupes, the story of the Trump campaign\\u2019s involvement with the GRU email hacking operation is more complicated.
Episode three is entitled "The Campaign and the Leaks." It covers the Trump campaign involvement in the distribution of hacked materials.\\xa0No American took part in the actual Russian hacking of Democratic emails, but when it came to actually releasing the stolen emails, the story is more complicated. First, the Trump campaign and associates had a number of direct and indirect interactions with Wikileaks about releases of stolen materials. And second, in what may be the most bizarre escapade of the entire Mueller report, the Trump campaign, including Trump himself, set out on a wild goose chase to get probably-fake Clinton emails from probably fake Russian hackers\\u2014even as real Russian hackers were busily releasing real Clinton campaign emails.
In this episode we also tackle a section of Mueller\\u2019s report that is largely redacted in order o prevent harm to the ongoing prosecution of Roger Stone. As listeners will see, a great deal of what is behind those redactions can be gleaned from court filings in the Stone case, as well as from the special counsel\\u2019s draft plea agreement which Jerome Corsi declined to agree to and instead publicly leaked.\\xa0
This episode features\\xa0Shane Harris, Julia Ioffe, Quinta Jurecic, Mark Mazetti\\xa0and Matt Tait.
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