Jeremy Bash: No Way the Trump Camp Can Claim ‘They Were Passive Beneficiaries’ of Russian Hacking

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BASH: "We saw the indictments two weeks ago of 13 Russians and the Russian organizations with regards to propaganda. But there’s a lot of propaganda during the campaign. The Trump team could claim, 'Well, this had no impact. I don’t necessarily agree with that.' And by the way, some political activities, some are legal, some are illegal. Hacking is a totally different story. There’s no way the Trump campaign can claim they were passive beneficiaries. Why do I say that? Because George Papadopoulos knew that the Russians had dirt on Hillary. The Trump Tower meeting was set up purposefully to discuss, quote, 'Dirt on Hillary,' and every day during the fall campaign candidate Trump talked about Wikileaks, talked about those e-mails. So they at least had the knowledge of what the Russians were doing and perhaps they had more involvement and Bob Mueller will look directly at that."