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US 2016 Presidential Elections: Clinton Claims Russia Hacked Emails to Boost Trump

US 2016 Presidential Elections: Clinton Claims Russia Hacked Emails to Boost Trump
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Scrambling to contain damaging revelations contained in a cache of leaked emails from Democratic Party leaders, presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton is pushing the idea that Russia is behind the cyber-breach.

US 2016 Presidential Elections: Clinton Claims Russia Hacked Emails to Boost Trump

Clinton's campaign said Sunday that the leak, which exposed an insider effort to hobble fellow Democrat Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign, was part of an effort to help Republican candidate Donald Trump win.

"Experts are telling us that Russian state actors broke into the DNC, took all these emails, and now are leaking them out through these websites," campaign manager Robby Mook told ABC.

"It's troubling that some experts are now telling us that this was done by the Russians for the purpose of helping Donald Trump."

Cyber experts determined that documents, released first by a supposed hacker and later by WikiLeaks, passed through Russian computers, The New York Times reported.

The revelations threaten to derail the carefully coordinated roll-out of the Democratic general election campaign, with the party boss abruptly announcing her resignation on the eve of the convention to officially nominate Clinton.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Sunday she would step down at the end of the convention, a move that aimed to put an end to the scandal threatening an uneasy truce within the fractured party.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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