Hillary Clinton gave her most extensive and candid remarks to date Wednesday concerning how she believes the Russians tilted the 2016 elections in favor of Donald Trump.
The Russians, she explained, have been hacking and stealing digital information for decades and using that intelligence for internal purposes. The difference in 2016 was that they figured out how to "weaponize" that information in the context of an American election.
“I think it is fair to ask," Clinton said at the Recode Conference in Southern California, "how did they know what messages to deliver? Who told them?"
The Russians had to have input into how to make the information they stole matter in the course of a U.S. election, she argued.
The Russians, in my opinion—and based on the Intel and counter Intel, people I've talked to—could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided.
Clinton then offered a fascinating case in point, noting that the initial round of the now infamous Podesta emails were first posted to WikiLeaks "within one hour" of when news first broke about Donald Trump's "Grab 'em by the pussy" Access Hollywood tapes.
They had to be ready for that and they had to have a plan for that and they had to be given the go-ahead—Okay, this could be the end of the Trump campaign, dump it now.
Find a longer excerpt and video clip of Clinton’s remarks below
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