<p><meta name="uuid" content="uuidaRYSpnCNlvXO" /><meta charset="utf-8" />Former US president Donald Trump wanted to trademark the phrase 'Rigged Election!' days after he lost the 2020 election, according to Jared Kushner's testimony to the House select committee which released a damning report earlier this month.&nbsp;The committee released a transcript of Kushner's interview where White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino wrote an email to Trump's son-in-law and former adviser, forwarding the then president's request.&nbsp;</p>

<p>“Hey Jared! POTUS wants to trademark/own rights to below, I don’t know who to see – or ask…I don’t know who to take to,” read the email by Scavino with “Save America PAC!” and “Rigged Election!” written in bold.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Kushner read the mail and forwarded the request to a mail chain which had Eric Trump, Sean Dollman, CFO of Trump's 2020 campaign, Alex Cannon and Justin Clark, both being Trump's campaign lawyer.&nbsp;</p>

<p>“Guys - can we do ASAP please?” wrote Kushner, to which Eric Trump replied,&nbsp;“Both web URLs are already registered. Save America PAC was registered October 23 of this year. Was that done by the campaign?”</p>

<p>“‘Save America PAC’ is already taken/registered, just confirming that. But we can still file for ‘Save America’,” Dollman added to the mail chain.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Kushner’s response, according to the transcript, was “Go.”</p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/trumps-committe-buys-158000-worth-of-kushners-new-book-makes-it-a-bestseller-526054"><strong>Read more:&nbsp;Did Trump's political committee artificially inflate sales of Kushner's 'bestseller' book?</strong></a></p>

<p>The committee in its report held Trump&nbsp;responsible for the January 6 Capitol Hill riots.&nbsp;The 800-page report was published after conducting 1,000-plus interviews and examination of a large number of documents, phone records, texts and more.</p>

<p>The committee has called for Trump to never be allowed to hold office again.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/videos/us-house-panel-releases-trumps-tax-records-of-past-six-years-548188"><strong>WATCH |&nbsp;US house panel releases Trump's tax records of past six years</strong></a></p>

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<p>After the release of the report,&nbsp;an angry Trump took to Truth Social to vent out his frustration.&nbsp;</p>

<p>"The unselect committee [sic] did not produce a single shred of evidence that I in any way intended or wanted violence at our Capitol," said Trump.&nbsp;</p>

<p>"The evidence does not exist because the claim is baseless and a monstrous lie."</p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/the-evidence-does-not-exist-donald-trump-lashes-out-after-the-release-of-jan-6-panel-report-546241" target="_blank"><strong>Read more: ‘Not a shred of evidence against me’: Donald Trump lashes out at Jan 6 panel over its report</strong></a></p>

<p>Notably, the committee which published the report has called for Trump to never be allowed to hold office again. To substantiate the claims, the report cites at least 200 acts where Trump and his allies attempted to overturn the presidential election.&nbsp;</p>

<p><em>(With inputs from agencies)</em></p>

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Former US president Donald Trump wanted to trademark the phrase 'Rigged Election!' days after he lost the 2020 election, according to Jared Kushner's testimony to the House select committee which released a damning report earlier this month.

Former US president Donald Trump wanted to trademark the phrase 'Rigged Election!' days after he lost the 2020 election, according to Jared Kushner's testimony to the House select committee which released a damning report earlier this month. The committee released a transcript of Kushner's interview where White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino wrote an email to Trump's son-in-law and former adviser, forwarding the then president's request. “Hey Jared! POTUS wants to trademark/own rights to below, I don’t know who to see – or ask…I don’t know who to take to,” read the email by Scavino with “Save America PAC!” and “Rigged Election!” written in bold. Kushner read the mail and forwarded the request to a mail chain which had Eric Trump, Sean Dollman, CFO of Trump's 2020 campaign, Alex Cannon and Justin Clark, both being Trump's campaign lawyer. “Guys - can we do ASAP please?” wrote Kushner, to which Eric Trump replied, “Both web URLs are already registered. Save America PAC was registered October 23 of this year. Was that done by the campaign?” “‘Save America PAC’ is already taken/registered, just confirming that. But we can still file for ‘Save America’,” Dollman added to the mail chain. Kushner’s response, according to the transcript, was “Go.” Read more: Did Trump's political committee artificially inflate sales of Kushner's 'bestseller' book? The committee in its report held Trump responsible for the January 6 Capitol Hill riots. The 800-page report was published after conducting 1,000-plus interviews and examination of a large number of documents, phone records, texts and more. The committee has called for Trump to never be allowed to hold office again. WATCH | US house panel releases Trump's tax records of past six years × After the release of the report, an angry Trump took to Truth Social to vent out his frustration. "The unselect committee [sic] did not produce a single shred of evidence that I in any way intended or wanted violence at our Capitol," said Trump. "The evidence does not exist because the claim is baseless and a monstrous lie." Read more: ‘Not a shred of evidence against me’: Donald Trump lashes out at Jan 6 panel over its report Notably, the committee which published the report has called for Trump to never be allowed to hold office again. To substantiate the claims, the report cites at least 200 acts where Trump and his allies attempted to overturn the presidential election. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE:

After poll defeat, Donald Trump wanted to trademark the phrase ‘Rigged Election!’: House panel

Incumbent US President DonaldTrump tweets in his latest tweet that, Election were rigged, even after the election was declared safe and secure by both state and federal government.

US: Trump cites that election were rigged on twitter

<p>Social Media giant Facebook has placed an informational disclaimer on a post from US president Donald Trump on Tuesday. The post by Trump claims mail-in voting would lead to a "corrupt" election.</p>

<p>This disclaimer comes as follow-through on Facebook's pledge to fight misinformation including from world leaders and shifting slightly from its hands-off policy on political speech.</p>

<p>Trump wrote on Facebook claiming that mail-in voting, unless changed by the courts, "will lead to the most CORRUPT ELECTION in our Nation's History!" and added the hashtag #RIGGEDELECTION.</p>

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<p>The social media site added a tag on it saying: Get official voting info on how to vote in the 2020 US Election" with a link to the government-sponsored USA.gov page on how to cast ballots.</p>

<p>Facebook has always held firm on its policy not to fact check political leaders but has vowed to take down any post which could instigate violence and mislead people about the voting process.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Recently, it promised to add labels to posts which would normally be removed for violating platform rules, but which are left online as "newsworthy," following the example of Twitter.</p>


Social Media giant Facebook has placed an informational disclaimer on a post from US president Donald Trump on Tuesday. The post by Trump claims mail-in voting would lead to a "corrupt" election.

Social Media giant Facebook has placed an informational disclaimer on a post from US president Donald Trump on Tuesday. The post by Trump claims mail-in voting would lead to a "corrupt" election. This disclaimer comes as follow-through on Facebook's pledge to fight misinformation including from world leaders and shifting slightly from its hands-off policy on political speech. Trump wrote on Facebook claiming that mail-in voting, unless changed by the courts, "will lead to the most CORRUPT ELECTION in our Nation's History!" and added the hashtag #RIGGEDELECTION. RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES! Posted by Donald J. Trump on Monday, June 22, 2020 × The social media site added a tag on it saying: Get official voting info on how to vote in the 2020 US Election" with a link to the government-sponsored USA.gov page on how to cast ballots. Facebook has always held firm on its policy not to fact check political leaders but has vowed to take down any post which could instigate violence and mislead people about the voting process. Recently, it promised to add labels to posts which would normally be removed for violating platform rules, but which are left online as "newsworthy," following the example of Twitter.

Facebook tags disclaimer on Donald Trump's post on 'mail- in voting'

<p>US President Donald Trump admitted that Russia may have interfered in the 2016 US election of which he was proclaimed the winner, but said that other countries may also have been involved, AFP reports.&nbsp;</p>

<p>&quot;I&#39;ve said it very simply. I think it could very well have been Russia. I think it could well have been other countries. I won&#39;t be specific. But I think a lot of people interfere,&quot; Trump said while in Warsaw.</p>

<p>On January 10, 2017, Trump&nbsp;told reporters, &quot;as far as hacking, I think it was Russia,&quot; reports the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/us/politics/trumps-press-conference-highlights-russia.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a>, marking the first time he agreed with multiple&nbsp;US intelligence agencies which&nbsp;conclude&nbsp;that Russia interfered in the election&nbsp;to help him, Trump, win.</p>

<p>But then moments later Trump&nbsp;compared US intelligence agencies to Nazis&nbsp;and dodged questions about whether he or anyone on his team had contact with Russia during the election. &quot;They said it totally never happened,&quot; Trump said of Russia denying their involvement in the hack.&nbsp;&quot;I respected the fact that he said that,&quot; Trump said of Russia&#39;s denial,&nbsp;adding, &quot;it could have been others also&quot;.&nbsp;</p>

<p>About the fact that there was an&nbsp;election breach, Trump has shown little outrage, then or since.</p>

<p>Another major NATO&nbsp;power&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wionews.com/world/angela-merkel-warns-of-possible-russian-interference-in-german-elections-8547" target="_blank">Germany</a>&nbsp;has since said they fear Russian interference in their election. Emmanuel Macron&#39;s campaign team has also blamed Russia for a &quot;<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/05/macron-campaign-blasts-massive-hacking-attack-ahead-french-presidential/" target="_blank">massive hacking attack</a>&quot; days before the French election, that he eventually won.&nbsp;</p>

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<p><b>Election fraud or voter suppression?</b></p>

<p>Trump has launched an investigation into alleged voter fraud, in what he called without evidence a &quot;rigged&quot; election, in order to prove that Clinton, who won the popular vote by about 3 million votes, did not really&nbsp;win the popular vote.</p>

<p>Donald Trump lost the popular vote by more than any US president in American history.</p>

<p>President Trump&#39;s&nbsp;commission has sought to obtain the personal data of voters, including the &quot;name, address, date of birth, party affiliation, last four Social Security number digits and voting history back to 2006 of potentially every voter in the state&quot;, reports the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/06/30/voting-hypocrisy-on-the-right-rebellion-from-the-states/?utm_term=.7b2da12e367b" target="_blank">Washington Post.</a></p>

<p>So far 44 states have refused. Virginia&#39;s judge issued a blunt denial, along with the reasoning behind it:</p>

<p>&quot;I have no intention of honouring this request. Virginia conducts fair, honest, and democratic elections, and there is no evidence of significant voter fraud in Virginia.</p>

<p>&quot;This entire commission is based on the specious and false notion that there was widespread voter fraud last November. At best this commission was set up as a pretext to validate Donald Trump&#39;s alternative election facts, and at worse is a tool to commit large-scale voter suppression.&quot;</p>

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In January Trump had conceded 'as far as hacking, I think it was Russia', but then compared US intelligence agencies who agreed to Nazis

US President Donald Trump admitted that Russia may have interfered in the 2016 US election of which he was proclaimed the winner, but said that other countries may also have been involved, AFP reports. "I've said it very simply. I think it could very well have been Russia. I think it could well have been other countries. I won't be specific. But I think a lot of people interfere," Trump said while in Warsaw. On January 10, 2017, Trump told reporters, "as far as hacking, I think it was Russia," reports the New York Times, marking the first time he agreed with multiple US intelligence agencies which conclude that Russia interfered in the election to help him, Trump, win. But then moments later Trump compared US intelligence agencies to Nazis and dodged questions about whether he or anyone on his team had contact with Russia during the election. "They said it totally never happened," Trump said of Russia denying their involvement in the hack. "I respected the fact that he said that," Trump said of Russia's denial, adding, "it could have been others also". About the fact that there was an election breach, Trump has shown little outrage, then or since. Another major NATO power Germany has since said they fear Russian interference in their election. Emmanuel Macron's campaign team has also blamed Russia for a "massive hacking attack" days before the French election, that he eventually won. Election fraud or voter suppression? Trump has launched an investigation into alleged voter fraud, in what he called without evidence a "rigged" election, in order to prove that Clinton, who won the popular vote by about 3 million votes, did not really win the popular vote. Donald Trump lost the popular vote by more than any US president in American history. President Trump's commission has sought to obtain the personal data of voters, including the "name, address, date of birth, party affiliation, last four Social Security number digits and voting history back to 2006 of potentially every voter in the state", reports the Washington Post. So far 44 states have refused. Virginia's judge issued a blunt denial, along with the reasoning behind it: "I have no intention of honouring this request. Virginia conducts fair, honest, and democratic elections, and there is no evidence of significant voter fraud in Virginia. "This entire commission is based on the specious and false notion that there was widespread voter fraud last November. At best this commission was set up as a pretext to validate Donald Trump's alternative election facts, and at worse is a tool to commit large-scale voter suppression."

Russia 'could have' interfered with 2016 US election, says US President Trump

<p>Electoral College electors will not receive any intelligence briefing concerning Russian interference in the 2016 US election, says the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on Friday, CNN reports.</p>

<p>The intelligence community said it will not discuss the Russian hacks until a review ordered by Obama is completed in January, <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coming-soon-real-presidential-election-n696556">NBC </a>reports.&nbsp;</p>

<p>US intelligence agencies said as far back as October 7 they were &quot;confident&quot; Russia was involved in efforts to hack information related to the election, and Obama himself suggested&nbsp;Friday, in his last press conference of the year, that Putin&nbsp;was responsible for meddling in the US election. &quot;Not much happens in Russia without Vladimir Putin...this happened at the highest levels of the Russian government,&quot; he said.</p>

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<p>In the US election, citizens actually vote for the Electoral College voters, who then usually select the presidential candidate their state favoured. But with Trump winning the election despite&nbsp;losing the popular vote by millions, this year presents controversy.</p>

<p>Earlier this month, a group of electors for Clinton called for a briefing ahead of the vote in an open letter to Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, CNN reports.</p>

<p>They sought information on &quot;whether there are ongoing investigations into ties between Donald Trump, his campaign or associates, and Russian government interference in the election, the scope of these investigations, how far those investigations may have reached, and who was involved in those investigations,&quot; CNN reports.</p>

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<p>On Monday, CNN reported&nbsp;that Clinton&#39;s campaign manager, John Podesta, backed the electors seeking to be briefed on the question of foreign interventions, the closst Podesta and anyone from the Clinton camp came to calling into question the legitimacy of Trump&#39;s presidency.</p>

<p>Podesta said in a statement: &quot;We believe that the administration owes it to the American people to explain what it knows regarding the extent and manner of Russia&#39;s interference and this be done as soon as possible.</p>

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<p><strong>Will the Electoral College&nbsp;<em>not</em>&nbsp;vote Trump?</strong></p>

<p>While a total of 29 US states have laws that require the electors to cast their votes for whichever candidate won that state&#39;s popular vote,&nbsp;the penalties for not doing so are weak.</p>

<p>Christopher Suprun, a paramedic from Texas, said he will vote against Trump despite the result of&nbsp;his&nbsp;state&#39;s election. &quot;Donald Trump lacks the foreign policy experience and demeanor needed to be a commander in chief,&quot; he wrote in a New York Times op-ed, <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coming-soon-real-presidential-election-n696556">NBC reports.</a></p>

<p>Also from Texas is elector&nbsp;Art Sisneros, who resigned in November, saying a vote for Trump &quot;would bring dishonour to God,&#39;&quot; NBC quotes him as saying,</p>

<p>However, Republicans say that party lawyers have contacted 306 Republican electors, and they believe only a few may vote for someone other than Trump, NBC reports. An Associated Press survey, which interviewed 330 of the 538 electors, found &quot;widespread Democratic aggravation with the electoral process but little expectation that the hustle of anti-Trump maneuvering can derail him&quot;.</p>

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On Monday the Electoral College will almost certainly vote to make Trump president, ignorant about his Russian connections

Electoral College electors will not receive any intelligence briefing concerning Russian interference in the 2016 US election, says the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on Friday, CNN reports. The intelligence community said it will not discuss the Russian hacks until a review ordered by Obama is completed in January, NBC reports. US intelligence agencies said as far back as October 7 they were "confident" Russia was involved in efforts to hack information related to the election, and Obama himself suggested Friday, in his last press conference of the year, that Putin was responsible for meddling in the US election. "Not much happens in Russia without Vladimir Putin...this happened at the highest levels of the Russian government," he said. In the US election, citizens actually vote for the Electoral College voters, who then usually select the presidential candidate their state favoured. But with Trump winning the election despite losing the popular vote by millions, this year presents controversy. Earlier this month, a group of electors for Clinton called for a briefing ahead of the vote in an open letter to Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, CNN reports. They sought information on "whether there are ongoing investigations into ties between Donald Trump, his campaign or associates, and Russian government interference in the election, the scope of these investigations, how far those investigations may have reached, and who was involved in those investigations," CNN reports. On Monday, CNN reported that Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta, backed the electors seeking to be briefed on the question of foreign interventions, the closst Podesta and anyone from the Clinton camp came to calling into question the legitimacy of Trump's presidency. Podesta said in a statement: "We believe that the administration owes it to the American people to explain what it knows regarding the extent and manner of Russia's interference and this be done as soon as possible. Will the Electoral College not vote Trump? While a total of 29 US states have laws that require the electors to cast their votes for whichever candidate won that state's popular vote, the penalties for not doing so are weak. Christopher Suprun, a paramedic from Texas, said he will vote against Trump despite the result of his state's election. "Donald Trump lacks the foreign policy experience and demeanor needed to be a commander in chief," he wrote in a New York Times op-ed, NBC reports. Also from Texas is elector Art Sisneros, who resigned in November, saying a vote for Trump "would bring dishonour to God,'" NBC quotes him as saying, However, Republicans say that party lawyers have contacted 306 Republican electors, and they believe only a few may vote for someone other than Trump, NBC reports. An Associated Press survey, which interviewed 330 of the 538 electors, found "widespread Democratic aggravation with the electoral process but little expectation that the hustle of anti-Trump maneuvering can derail him". (WION)

Electoral College voters won't receive intel briefings about Russian election interference before vote

<p>The Clinton campaign has issued cease-and-desist warnings to any TV or radio station, demanding that they refrain from airing ads from pro-Trump groups stating that his democratic rival is &quot;under investigation by the FBI&quot;, <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/media/304854-clinton-campaign-to-media-stop-airing-ads-saying-clinton-is-under">The Hill reports.</a></p>

<p>CNN reported that the letters were sent on Sunday, the same day that FBI Director James Comey anounced that the newly discovered emails would not change the FBI&#39;s original conclusion from July 5, that Clinton was innocent of any criminal wrongdoing.&nbsp;</p>

<p>&quot;These ads falsely claim Secretary Clinton is under investigation by the FBI,&quot; wrote Marc Elias, the general counsel for the Clinton campaign. He also writes that &quot;at no point&quot; did the FBI &quot;reopen&quot; an investiation into Clinton&#39;s emails. &quot;The claim in these ads is provably false.&quot;</p>

<p>The prospect of misinformation affecting&nbsp;the 2016 US election, and possibly tainting its result,&nbsp;is considerable. There are <a href="http://www.wionews.com/world/us-election-fears-of-voter-intimidation-suppression-run-high-8541">already early reports </a>from advanced voting related to&nbsp;voter intimidation and voter suppression.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Jon Favreau, President Obama&#39;s chief speech writer from 2005-2013, pointed out that&nbsp;today&#39;s <a href="https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/moscows-news-media-helps-russians-report-vote-fraud-to-the-trump-campaign-56051">Moscow Times</a>&nbsp;reports that&nbsp;Russian news media is sending Russians living in Russia the number to a&nbsp;hotline where they&nbsp;can report so-called vote fraud to Donald Trump. While the hotline&nbsp;is primarily for Russians living in the US, there is an option to &quot;Press 1&quot; for callers located within&nbsp;Russia.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">One last push from a foreign government intervening in our election on behalf of Trump! <a href="https://t.co/0HEouhNPE6">https://t.co/0HEouhNPE6</a></p>
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<p>This frantic atmopshere of misinformation poses a two-fold threat: that the election result itself&nbsp;<em>is&nbsp;</em>tainted, and that the result is&nbsp;<em>perceived&nbsp;</em>to be tainted. Democracy can&#39;t be strong if its very foundations, a free voting process, is questioned.&nbsp;</p>

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Trump supporters were airing commercials claiming the Democratic nominee for President is 'under FBI investigation', which is not true

The Clinton campaign has issued cease-and-desist warnings to any TV or radio station, demanding that they refrain from airing ads from pro-Trump groups stating that his democratic rival is "under investigation by the FBI", The Hill reports. CNN reported that the letters were sent on Sunday, the same day that FBI Director James Comey anounced that the newly discovered emails would not change the FBI's original conclusion from July 5, that Clinton was innocent of any criminal wrongdoing. "These ads falsely claim Secretary Clinton is under investigation by the FBI," wrote Marc Elias, the general counsel for the Clinton campaign. He also writes that "at no point" did the FBI "reopen" an investiation into Clinton's emails. "The claim in these ads is provably false." The prospect of misinformation affecting the 2016 US election, and possibly tainting its result, is considerable. There are already early reports from advanced voting related to voter intimidation and voter suppression. Jon Favreau, President Obama's chief speech writer from 2005-2013, pointed out that today's Moscow Times reports that Russian news media is sending Russians living in Russia the number to a hotline where they can report so-called vote fraud to Donald Trump. While the hotline is primarily for Russians living in the US, there is an option to "Press 1" for callers located within Russia. One last push from a foreign government intervening in our election on behalf of Trump! https://t.co/0HEouhNPE6 — Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) November 8, 2016 × This frantic atmopshere of misinformation poses a two-fold threat: that the election result itself is tainted, and that the result is perceived to be tainted. Democracy can't be strong if its very foundations, a free voting process, is questioned. (WION)

Clinton lawyers end ads with 'provably false' claims before election

<p>When Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey announced 11 days before the election&nbsp;that the agency would be reviewing a new batch of Democractic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton&#39;s emails,&nbsp;many thought&nbsp;the race&#39;s momentum had swung towards Trump for good.</p>

<p>For days, the headlines had been about&nbsp;Trump&#39;s comments on&nbsp;grabbing women &quot;by the p*ssy&quot;, and now they were about&nbsp;Clinton&#39;s emails again.</p>

<p>But Comey has written a new letter today, saying unequivocally that the FBI&nbsp;have reviewed &quot;all of the&nbsp;communications&nbsp;that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State&quot;, and that based on this, they have not changed their conclusion from July, which stated&nbsp;that nothing was&nbsp;illegal.&nbsp;</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">As expected, the review of the additional emails has not changed the FBI&#39;s original conclusion. <a href="https://t.co/iVMTWRLv4h">pic.twitter.com/iVMTWRLv4h</a></p>
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<p>Comey was criticised for contravening the Department of Justice&#39;s standard policy by commenting on an investigation, seemingly all on his own,&nbsp;so close to the election.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Trump surrogate and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said, then denied, that he had advanced knowledge that&nbsp;the FBI was reviewing&nbsp;new&nbsp;Clinton emails, which suggested that the FBI was leaking&nbsp;information to him and the Trump campaign.</p>

<p>Whether&nbsp;<em>this&nbsp;</em>Comey letter gets as much prominence&nbsp;in US media is yet to be determined. Also to be determined is whether or not Comey&#39;s&nbsp;new letter will undo the damage his old one did to&nbsp;the Clinton campaign.</p>

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FBI?chief wrote they have reviewed all communication?'to or from Hillary Clinton while she was secretary', nothing illegal was found

When Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey announced 11 days before the election that the agency would be reviewing a new batch of Democractic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's emails, many thought the race's momentum had swung towards Trump for good. For days, the headlines had been about Trump's comments on grabbing women "by the p*ssy", and now they were about Clinton's emails again. But Comey has written a new letter today, saying unequivocally that the FBI have reviewed "all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State", and that based on this, they have not changed their conclusion from July, which stated that nothing was illegal. As expected, the review of the additional emails has not changed the FBI's original conclusion. pic.twitter.com/iVMTWRLv4h — Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) November 6, 2016 × Comey was criticised for contravening the Department of Justice's standard policy by commenting on an investigation, seemingly all on his own, so close to the election. Trump surrogate and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said, then denied, that he had advanced knowledge that the FBI was reviewing new Clinton emails, which suggested that the FBI was leaking information to him and the Trump campaign. Whether this Comey letter gets as much prominence in US media is yet to be determined. Also to be determined is whether or not Comey's new letter will undo the damage his old one did to the Clinton campaign. (WION)

New Comey letter clears Clinton, a second time

<p>Advanced voting among African Americans in North Carolina&nbsp;is down by 8.7 per cent from last year, according to Michael McDonald, an Associate Professor at the University of Florida who specialises in American elections.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Something went very wrong for African-Americans&#39; voting in North Carolina <a href="https://t.co/ZpwjyEavmd">pic.twitter.com/ZpwjyEavmd</a></p>
&mdash; Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) <a href="https://twitter.com/ElectProject/status/795378059570544645">November 6, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p>This comes as US District Judge Loretta Biggs slammed a still-continuing North Carolinan voter purge during a hearing Wednesday, telling county attorneys that she was &quot;horrified&quot; by the &quot;insane&quot; process by which residents&nbsp;could be removed from the registered list of voters&nbsp;without their knowledge, <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/11/03/federal_judge_slams_north_carolina_voter_purge.html">Slate </a>reports.&nbsp;&quot;This sounds like something that was put together in 1901&quot;, she said, which&nbsp;as Slate reminds us&nbsp;was when the state used Jim Crow laws to prevent black citizens from&nbsp;voting.</p>

<p>CBS reports that the comments came during an emergency hearing over allegations raised by the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) that at least three counties in the&nbsp;state are being purged unfairly in a process that targets African Americans.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Lawyers for North Carolina countered that state data shows that in the last two years fewer than 7,000 statewide out of a total of 6.8 million registered voters have been purged.</p>

<p>Meanwhile, McDonald says that the lower numbers in one state are not represenative of&nbsp;African American eagerness to vote&nbsp;overall. In Georgia, the same number has gone up by a considerable margin.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Again Afr-Am enthusiasm should not be judged by NC alone: Georgia Afr-Am <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/earlyovte?src=hash">#earlyovte</a> up +23,859 from 2012, but NC down -65,650 votes</p>
&mdash; Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) <a href="https://twitter.com/ElectProject/status/795305361435660288">November 6, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p>But North Carolina wasn&#39;t the only crucial state&nbsp;to experience longer than normal waits for minorities. Also affected was Cincinnati, Ohio,&nbsp;who are expected to vote Democrat.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">4,000 people are waiting in line to vote in Cincinnati right now. This is how long the line is. <a href="https://t.co/bilpnGsrzl">pic.twitter.com/bilpnGsrzl</a></p>
&mdash; Saahil Desai (@Saahil_Desai) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saahil_Desai/status/795342933364973570">November 6, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Approximately 2500 people in line to vote early in Cincinnati! <a href="https://t.co/Rqfsi7zSoN">pic.twitter.com/Rqfsi7zSoN</a></p>
&mdash; Allan B (@albhere) <a href="https://twitter.com/albhere/status/795353794980810752">November 6, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p>This fits a trend. As the New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/opinion/long-lines-at-minority-polling-places.html">reported</a>&nbsp;in a 2014 piece on the same topic, &quot;Some of the longest lines on Election Day occur at polling places in black and&nbsp;Hispanic neighbourhoods.&quot;</p>

<p>A conclusion&nbsp;reached after examining a study by the Brennan Center for Justice&nbsp;was decisive:&nbsp;&quot;There was a clear relationship in those states between the racial makeup of a precinct and the number of voting machines it received from the state.&quot;</p>

<p>This week, the&nbsp;New York Times even published on their website&nbsp;an interactive game called &quot;The Voter Suppression Trail&quot;, allowing users to try to overcome various obstacles in order to cast a vote, while playing as an&nbsp;African American or&nbsp;Latino character.</p>

<p>This controversy surrounding voter suppression&nbsp;comes as Republican presidential candidate&nbsp;Donald Trump has warned -- without foundation, but repeatedly&nbsp;-- that the 2016 US election is &quot;rigged&quot; to favour Hillary Clinton.&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;(WION)</p>


African American advanced voting is way down in North Carolina, with a 8.7% drop, and lineups in other states are hours-long

Advanced voting among African Americans in North Carolina is down by 8.7 per cent from last year, according to Michael McDonald, an Associate Professor at the University of Florida who specialises in American elections. Something went very wrong for African-Americans' voting in North Carolina pic.twitter.com/ZpwjyEavmd — Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) November 6, 2016 × This comes as US District Judge Loretta Biggs slammed a still-continuing North Carolinan voter purge during a hearing Wednesday, telling county attorneys that she was "horrified" by the "insane" process by which residents could be removed from the registered list of voters without their knowledge, Slate reports. "This sounds like something that was put together in 1901", she said, which as Slate reminds us was when the state used Jim Crow laws to prevent black citizens from voting. CBS reports that the comments came during an emergency hearing over allegations raised by the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) that at least three counties in the state are being purged unfairly in a process that targets African Americans. Lawyers for North Carolina countered that state data shows that in the last two years fewer than 7,000 statewide out of a total of 6.8 million registered voters have been purged. Meanwhile, McDonald says that the lower numbers in one state are not represenative of African American eagerness to vote overall. In Georgia, the same number has gone up by a considerable margin. Again Afr-Am enthusiasm should not be judged by NC alone: Georgia Afr-Am #earlyovte up +23,859 from 2012, but NC down -65,650 votes — Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) November 6, 2016 × But North Carolina wasn't the only crucial state to experience longer than normal waits for minorities. Also affected was Cincinnati, Ohio, who are expected to vote Democrat. 4,000 people are waiting in line to vote in Cincinnati right now. This is how long the line is. pic.twitter.com/bilpnGsrzl — Saahil Desai (@Saahil_Desai) November 6, 2016 × Approximately 2500 people in line to vote early in Cincinnati! pic.twitter.com/Rqfsi7zSoN — Allan B (@albhere) November 6, 2016 × This fits a trend. As the New York Times reported in a 2014 piece on the same topic, "Some of the longest lines on Election Day occur at polling places in black and Hispanic neighbourhoods." A conclusion reached after examining a study by the Brennan Center for Justice was decisive: "There was a clear relationship in those states between the racial makeup of a precinct and the number of voting machines it received from the state." This week, the New York Times even published on their website an interactive game called "The Voter Suppression Trail", allowing users to try to overcome various obstacles in order to cast a vote, while playing as an African American or Latino character. This controversy surrounding voter suppression comes as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has warned -- without foundation, but repeatedly -- that the 2016 US election is "rigged" to favour Hillary Clinton. (WION)

Republican efforts to suppress minority votes appear to be working

<p>A US&nbsp;judge in Ohio ordered Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump&#39;s campaign on Friday not to intimidate voters, in a victory for Democrats who sought to prevent Election Day harassment in one of the nation&#39;s most politically competitive states.</p>

<p>The order also deals a blow to a Trump-allied &quot;exit poll&quot; that aims to mobilise supporters to ask voters whether they had cast a ballot for the Republican real-estate mogul or Democrat Hillary Clinton.</p>

<p>On the campaign trail, Trump has said the election will be &quot;rigged&quot;. He has called on supporters to keep an eye on voting activity for possible signs of fraud in large cities.</p>

<p>The ruling does not prevent the state Republican Party from sending trained volunteers into polling places to make sure election laws are being followed. However, it does apply to Trump supporters who may take it on themselves to monitor voting activity independent of the party. It prevents them from verbally harassing voters near polling stations, or taking pictures of them.</p>

<p>Trump&#39;s vague call for&nbsp;supporters to go to &quot;other&quot; polling stations and watch out for funny activity was widely interpreted as a dog whistle encouraging white supporters to intimidate minority voters. Trump has invoked the threat of voter fraud and a &quot;rigged election&quot;. While there isn&#39;t a complete absence of it, the notion that the kind of fraud Trump talks about influences the election even slightly has been repeatedly debunked in numerous studies.&nbsp;</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/01/opinion/voting-suppression-videogame.html?_r=3">As the New York Times</a> writes in their introduction to an interactive video game aimed at showing users what voter suppression looks like for different people, &quot;thanks to laws passed by Republicans to fight&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/06/a-comprehensive-investigation-of-voter-impersonation-finds-31-credible-incidents-out-of-one-billion-ballots-cast/">the nonexistent threat of voter fraud</a>, the perils will be great.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.brennancenter.org/publication/election-day-long-lines-resource-allocation">Long lines</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/some-republicans-acknowledge-leveraging-voter-id-laws-for-political-gain.html">voter ID laws,</a>&nbsp;not to mention&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/18/donald-trump-volunteer-election-observers-voter-intimidation">pro-Trump election observers</a>, will try to keep these voters from the polls&quot;.&nbsp;</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">From chair of Maricopa County (AZ) Democratic Party... <a href="https://t.co/Ri1VLz4zJd">pic.twitter.com/Ri1VLz4zJd</a></p>
&mdash; Andrei Cherny (@AndreiCherny) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndreiCherny/status/794675151849721856">November 4, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p>Democrats have said that could encourage Trump supporters to harass minority voters and have launched a legal blitz in six states to prevent that from happening.</p>

<p>Democrats declared the judge&#39;s decision a victory, saying it would prevent Trump supporters from interfering with voters in one of the most competitive US&nbsp;states during the November&nbsp;8 election.</p>

<p>&quot;We&#39;re pleased that the judge announced he will be issuing an order to prevent any harassment of voters along the lines that have been suggested by the Trump campaign,&quot; Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper said in a prepared statement. The ruling also applies to groups supporting Clinton&#39;s presidential bid.</p>

<p>It also shuts down an exit poll organised by former Trump aide and Republican operative&nbsp;Roger Stone, who said he aims to uncover examples of vote manipulation. Stone told Reuters on Monday that participants are trained not to harass voters. Some 118 people in Ohio have signed up to participate through a web site called Stop the Steal. Stone did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</p>

<p>Stone&#39;s name has been&nbsp;in connection with&nbsp;another important and seemingly&nbsp;related incident. The&nbsp;FBI is&nbsp;reviewing&nbsp;a seven-page electronic document that has been identified as a fake by the Clinton campaign, but&nbsp;carries the logos of Democratic pollster Joel Benenson&rsquo;s firm, the Benenson Strategy Group, and the Clinton Foundation, a person with knowledge of the matter said.</p>

<p>The fake document&nbsp;claims poll ratings had plunged for Clinton and called for &ldquo;severe strategy changes for November&rdquo; that could include &ldquo;staged civil unrest&rdquo; and &ldquo;radiological attack&rdquo; with dirty bombs to disrupt the vote.</p>

<p>Where the document originated from or how it begun to circulate is not immediately clear, but on October&nbsp;20,&nbsp;Stone&nbsp;linked to a copy of it on Twitter with the tag, &ldquo;If this is real: OMG!!&rdquo;&nbsp;Stone did not respond to emails from Reuters requesting comment.</p>

<p>Ohio Republicans and the Trump campaign also did not immediately respond to requests for comment.</p>

<p>(With inputs from Reuters)</p>


The candidate talking of 'rigged elections' and 'make America Great again' has been close to sketchy, un-American voter suppression efforts

A US judge in Ohio ordered Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign on Friday not to intimidate voters, in a victory for Democrats who sought to prevent Election Day harassment in one of the nation's most politically competitive states. The order also deals a blow to a Trump-allied "exit poll" that aims to mobilise supporters to ask voters whether they had cast a ballot for the Republican real-estate mogul or Democrat Hillary Clinton. On the campaign trail, Trump has said the election will be "rigged". He has called on supporters to keep an eye on voting activity for possible signs of fraud in large cities. The ruling does not prevent the state Republican Party from sending trained volunteers into polling places to make sure election laws are being followed. However, it does apply to Trump supporters who may take it on themselves to monitor voting activity independent of the party. It prevents them from verbally harassing voters near polling stations, or taking pictures of them. Trump's vague call for supporters to go to "other" polling stations and watch out for funny activity was widely interpreted as a dog whistle encouraging white supporters to intimidate minority voters. Trump has invoked the threat of voter fraud and a "rigged election". While there isn't a complete absence of it, the notion that the kind of fraud Trump talks about influences the election even slightly has been repeatedly debunked in numerous studies. As the New York Times writes in their introduction to an interactive video game aimed at showing users what voter suppression looks like for different people, "thanks to laws passed by Republicans to fight the nonexistent threat of voter fraud, the perils will be great. Long lines and voter ID laws, not to mention pro-Trump election observers, will try to keep these voters from the polls". From chair of Maricopa County (AZ) Democratic Party... pic.twitter.com/Ri1VLz4zJd — Andrei Cherny (@AndreiCherny) November 4, 2016 × Democrats have said that could encourage Trump supporters to harass minority voters and have launched a legal blitz in six states to prevent that from happening. Democrats declared the judge's decision a victory, saying it would prevent Trump supporters from interfering with voters in one of the most competitive US states during the November 8 election. "We're pleased that the judge announced he will be issuing an order to prevent any harassment of voters along the lines that have been suggested by the Trump campaign," Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper said in a prepared statement. The ruling also applies to groups supporting Clinton's presidential bid. It also shuts down an exit poll organised by former Trump aide and Republican operative Roger Stone, who said he aims to uncover examples of vote manipulation. Stone told Reuters on Monday that participants are trained not to harass voters. Some 118 people in Ohio have signed up to participate through a web site called Stop the Steal. Stone did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Stone's name has been in connection with another important and seemingly related incident. The FBI is reviewing a seven-page electronic document that has been identified as a fake by the Clinton campaign, but carries the logos of Democratic pollster Joel Benenson’s firm, the Benenson Strategy Group, and the Clinton Foundation, a person with knowledge of the matter said. The fake document claims poll ratings had plunged for Clinton and called for “severe strategy changes for November” that could include “staged civil unrest” and “radiological attack” with dirty bombs to disrupt the vote. Where the document originated from or how it begun to circulate is not immediately clear, but on October 20, Stone linked to a copy of it on Twitter with the tag, “If this is real: OMG!!” Stone did not respond to emails from Reuters requesting comment. Ohio Republicans and the Trump campaign also did not immediately respond to requests for comment. (With inputs from Reuters)

Ohio judge orders Trump campaign to avoid voter intimidation

<p>The FBI and US&nbsp;intelligence agencies are examining faked documents aimed at discrediting the Hillary Clinton campaign as part of a broader investigation into what US&nbsp;officials believe has been an attempt by Russia to disrupt the presidential election, people with knowledge of the matter said.</p>

<p>US&nbsp;Senator Tom Carper, a Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, has referred one of the documents to the FBI for investigation on the grounds that his name and stationery were forged to appear authentic.</p>

<p>In a document forged to appear as though Carper was writing a letter to Clinton, Carper is quoted as saying the Department of Homeland Security had advised him of a risk that a &quot;massive&quot; cyber attack &quot;could change the election results in favour of a specific candidate&quot;. The document dated October 3 was reviewed by Reuters.</p>

<p>It concludes, &quot;Any suspicious incident will be immediately reported to your assistants so that a recount of votes could be timely organised. You will not lose the election because of some compromised electronic voting systems.&quot; The fake Carper letter is one of several documents presented to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US&nbsp;Department of Justice for review in recent weeks, the sources said.</p>

<p>Carper spokeswoman Meghan Pennington confirmed on Friday that the senator had sent a copy of the letter to the FBI and the Senate&rsquo;s chief law enforcement officer.</p>

<p>&quot;Our office became aware of a fake letter on Senator Carper&rsquo;s official letterhead and immediately referred it to federal law enforcement to investigate its genesis,&quot; Pennington said.</p>

<p>As part of an investigation into suspected Russian hacking, FBI investigators have also asked Democratic Party officials to provide copies of other suspected faked documents that have been circulating along with emails and other legitimate documents taken in the hack, people involved in those conversations said.</p>

<p>A spokesman for the FBI confirmed the agency was &ldquo;in receipt of a complaint about an alleged fake letter&rdquo; related to the election but declined further comment. Others with knowledge of the matter said the FBI was also examining other fake documents that recently surfaced.</p>

<p>US&nbsp;intelligence officials have warned privately that a campaign they believe is backed by the Russian government to undermine the credibility of the US&nbsp;presidential election could move beyond the hacking of Democratic Party email systems. That could include posting fictional evidence of voter fraud or other misinformation in the run-up to voting on November&nbsp;8, US&nbsp;officials have said.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Russian officials deny any such effort.&nbsp;</p>

<p>In addition to the Carper letter, the FBI has also reviewed a seven-page electronic document that carries the logos of Democratic pollster Joel Benenson&rsquo;s firm, the Benenson Strategy Group, and the Clinton Foundation, a person with knowledge of the matter said.</p>

<p>The document, identified as a fake by the Clinton campaign, claims poll ratings had plunged for Clinton and called for &ldquo;severe strategy changes for November&rdquo; that could include &ldquo;staged civil unrest&rdquo; and &ldquo;radiological attack&rdquo; with dirty bombs to disrupt the vote.</p>

<p>Like the Carper letter, it was not immediately clear where the fraudulent document had originated or how it had begun to circulate. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>On October&nbsp;20, Roger Stone, a former Trump aide and Republican operative, linked to a copy of the document on Twitter with the tag, &ldquo;If this is real: OMG!!&rdquo;&nbsp;Stone did not respond to emails requesting comment.</p>

<p>Benenson&rsquo;s firm had no immediate comment. Craig Minassian, a spokesman for the Clinton Foundation, said the document was &ldquo;fake.&rdquo; He said he did not know if the FBI had examined it.</p>

<p>A spokesman for the Clinton campaign, Glen Caplin, said the document was a fake and part of a &ldquo;desperate stunt&rdquo; to capitalise on the leak of Democratic emails by Wikileaks. &nbsp;</p>

<p>The developments highlight the unusually prominent role US&nbsp;law enforcement and intelligence agencies have played in a contentious election and an ongoing debate about how public they can or should be about their inquiries.</p>

<p>FBI Director James Comey, a Republican appointed by President Obama, touched off an outcry from Democrats last week when he alerted Congress that agents had found other emails that could be linked to an inquiry into Clinton&rsquo;s use of a private email server when she was Secretary of State, effectively re-opening an investigation he had closed in July.</p>

<p>(Reuters)</p>


Investigators believe it's part of a broader campaign conducted by Russia to disrupt the US election, those with knowledge of the matter say

The FBI and US intelligence agencies are examining faked documents aimed at discrediting the Hillary Clinton campaign as part of a broader investigation into what US officials believe has been an attempt by Russia to disrupt the presidential election, people with knowledge of the matter said. US Senator Tom Carper, a Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, has referred one of the documents to the FBI for investigation on the grounds that his name and stationery were forged to appear authentic. In a document forged to appear as though Carper was writing a letter to Clinton, Carper is quoted as saying the Department of Homeland Security had advised him of a risk that a "massive" cyber attack "could change the election results in favour of a specific candidate". The document dated October 3 was reviewed by Reuters. It concludes, "Any suspicious incident will be immediately reported to your assistants so that a recount of votes could be timely organised. You will not lose the election because of some compromised electronic voting systems." The fake Carper letter is one of several documents presented to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Department of Justice for review in recent weeks, the sources said. Carper spokeswoman Meghan Pennington confirmed on Friday that the senator had sent a copy of the letter to the FBI and the Senate’s chief law enforcement officer. "Our office became aware of a fake letter on Senator Carper’s official letterhead and immediately referred it to federal law enforcement to investigate its genesis," Pennington said. As part of an investigation into suspected Russian hacking, FBI investigators have also asked Democratic Party officials to provide copies of other suspected faked documents that have been circulating along with emails and other legitimate documents taken in the hack, people involved in those conversations said. A spokesman for the FBI confirmed the agency was “in receipt of a complaint about an alleged fake letter” related to the election but declined further comment. Others with knowledge of the matter said the FBI was also examining other fake documents that recently surfaced. US intelligence officials have warned privately that a campaign they believe is backed by the Russian government to undermine the credibility of the US presidential election could move beyond the hacking of Democratic Party email systems. That could include posting fictional evidence of voter fraud or other misinformation in the run-up to voting on November 8, US officials have said. Russian officials deny any such effort. In addition to the Carper letter, the FBI has also reviewed a seven-page electronic document that carries the logos of Democratic pollster Joel Benenson’s firm, the Benenson Strategy Group, and the Clinton Foundation, a person with knowledge of the matter said. The document, identified as a fake by the Clinton campaign, claims poll ratings had plunged for Clinton and called for “severe strategy changes for November” that could include “staged civil unrest” and “radiological attack” with dirty bombs to disrupt the vote. Like the Carper letter, it was not immediately clear where the fraudulent document had originated or how it had begun to circulate. On October 20, Roger Stone, a former Trump aide and Republican operative, linked to a copy of the document on Twitter with the tag, “If this is real: OMG!!” Stone did not respond to emails requesting comment. Benenson’s firm had no immediate comment. Craig Minassian, a spokesman for the Clinton Foundation, said the document was “fake.” He said he did not know if the FBI had examined it. A spokesman for the Clinton campaign, Glen Caplin, said the document was a fake and part of a “desperate stunt” to capitalise on the leak of Democratic emails by Wikileaks. The developments highlight the unusually prominent role US law enforcement and intelligence agencies have played in a contentious election and an ongoing debate about how public they can or should be about their inquiries. FBI Director James Comey, a Republican appointed by President Obama, touched off an outcry from Democrats last week when he alerted Congress that agents had found other emails that could be linked to an inquiry into Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was Secretary of State, effectively re-opening an investigation he had closed in July. (Reuters)

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