Democratic Party sues Russia and Trump

The National Democratic Party Committee (DNC) on Friday filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the Russian government, Trump's election headquarters and WikiLeaks, accusing them of conspiring with far-reaching plans to disrupt the 2016 election campaign of the year and change the election process in favor of Donald Trump, writes The Washington Post.

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A lawsuit filed with the Manhattan Federal District Court alleges that Trump’s campaign staff representatives colluded with the Russian authorities and Russian military intelligence to discredit Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and assist Trump by hacking the Democratic party’s computer networks and the distribution of the stolen materials found there.

“During the 2016 presidential campaign of the year, Russia launched a full-scale offensive against our democracy, and it found an interested, voluntary and active partner in the election headquarters of Donald Trump,” said DNC Chairman Tom Perez.

“It was an act of unprecedented betrayal: the electoral headquarters of a candidate for the presidency of the United States acted in collusion with a hostile foreign power to increase its chances of winning the presidential election,” he said.

The lawsuit alleges that the Russian hacker campaign — combined with the contacts of Trump’s entourage with Russia and the public support of the hacker attacks headquarters — amounted to illegal conspiracy to interfere in the elections, which caused serious damage to the Democratic Party.

Investigators of the Senate and members of the group of special prosecutor Robert Muller continue to investigate, trying to find out whether Trump's assistants coordinated their actions with the actions of the Russians.

The President has repeatedly denied engaging in any kind of conspiracy or the commissioning by members of his campaign headquarters of inappropriate and unlawful actions. This week, he again mentioned on Twitter “a bogus investigation of Russian intervention, during which, by the way, no collusion was found (except for the Democratic agreement).”

Trump later wrote another tweet, recalling Hillary Clinton's acclaimed letters.

“This may be good news in the sense that we can now respond to DNC servers that they refused to transmit to the FBI, Debbie Wasserman-Schulz servers, documents that were kept by a mysterious man from Pakistan, and Clinton emails,” he is on twitter.

The petition of the DNC states that Russia does not have the right to protection and sovereign immunity, since hacking is a violation of the borders of the party’s private property, an encroachment on its private property.

This lawsuit is reminiscent of a similar legal maneuver that the Democratic Party used during the Watergate scandal. In 1972, the DNC filed a lawsuit against the re-election committee of then-President Richard Nixon, demanding one million dollars in compensation for the illegal entry into the Democratic headquarters located in the Watergate Hotel.

The civil lawsuit filed by the then DNC Chairman Lawrence O'Brien was ultimately satisfied, with the result that Nixon headquarters paid 750 thousand dollars as a result of the agreement reached on August 9 1974 of the year - when Nixon left office.

The lawsuit, filed on Friday, claimed to pay millions of dollars in damages, which, as follows from the text of the document, the party suffered as a result of hacker hacks. The DNC claims that the cyber attack negatively affected his ability to communicate with voters, collect donations and work effectively, as his employees were subjected to personal harassment and in some cases - threats of physical violence.

The lawsuit also contains a requirement that the defendants must confirm that they have conspired to infiltrate the Democrats' computer system, steal information and distribute it in order to influence the elections.

Russia participated in the “brazen attack on the territory of the United States,” say the Democrats, a campaign that began with a cyber attack on computer networks DNC in 2015 and 2016. Members of the election headquarters of Trump have repeatedly received information, assistance and support from Russia, the lawsuit says.

“Instead of reporting these numerous messages and correspondence through which Russia intended to intervene in the elections in the United States, Trump’s election headquarters and representatives of his interests gladly welcomed Russia's help,” the democrats say.

As a result, people from Trump's entourage concluded an agreement with representatives of Russia “to promote Donald Trump’s candidacy by illegal means,” the plaintiffs conclude.

In the lawsuit, Trump is not named as a defendant. He is accused by Trump's various assistants who met with people allegedly associated with Russia during the election campaign, including President Donald Trump Jr., his son-in-law Jared Kushner, chairman of his campaign headquarters Paul Manafort, and Manafort’s deputy Rick Gates.

Last year, in a case filed by a team of a special prosecutor, Manafort and Gates were charged with money laundering, fraud, and tax evasion. In February, Gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy and giving false testimony to FBI investigators, and he is now cooperating with the investigation. Manafort pleaded not guilty.

In the DNC lawsuit, the GRU, Russian military intelligence, which the US government accuses of organizing hacker attacks, and WikiLeakswho published the stolen e-mail of the DNC, as well as the founder of this organization, Julian Assange.

The lawsuit was also filed against Roger Stone, Trump's longtime trustee, who during the election campaign claimed to be in contact with Assange.

Trump's advisers and people from his entourage deny that they have helped Russia in the hacker campaign it is pursuing. Stone denies communicating with Assange and knowingly knew about the merging of documents by the organization WikiLeaks. He stated that his statements about Assange were jokes or exaggeration.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Democratic Party by the law firm of Cohen Milstein.

The lawsuit contains previously undisclosed information, including the specific date - July 27 2015, when the Russians hacked the DNC computer system.

Analysis has shown that the system was hacked repeatedly on April 18 of the year. Hackers began to pump documents and information from the DNC 2016 systems in April. The lawsuit notes that four days later, Trump's foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos received information from London professor Joseph Mifsud that the Russians have thousands of emails that could compromise Hillary Clinton.

Papadopoulos and Mifsud, as well as father and son Aras and Emin Agalarov, rich Russians, who organized the Miss Universe contest in Moscow in 2013. The event was attended by Trump, who had exclusive rights to hold this competition.

Agalarovs also played a role in organizing a meeting for a Russian lawyer at the Trump Tower in New York in 2016, during which Donald Trump, Jr. hoped to get compromising information about Hillary Clinton.

The lawsuit alleges that Trump's personal and business ties to Russia contributed to the conspiracy.

DNC lawyers wrote that "long-standing personal, business and financial ties with Russia and numerous individuals associated with the Russian authorities created fertile ground for a conspiracy between the defendants, whose goal was to intervene in the 2016 election of the year."

The lawsuit describes how in the 1980s the then Soviet Union paid Trump a trip to Moscow.

The document also shows detailed information about Manafort and Gates, who, before joining the Trump election headquarters, worked in Ukraine, advising the leaders of pro-Russian parties. According to prosecutors, in 2016, Manafort and Gates contacted Konstantin Kilimnik, a former military translator who served in the Russian army, who, according to the FBI, was associated with Russian intelligence.

Translation: Inosmi.ru

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