Hillary Clinton said she’s “convinced” that Trump campaign associates cooperated with Russia to meddle in the 2016 presidential election, according to a report.

“There certainly was communication and there certainly was an understanding of some sort,” Clinton told USA Today in an interview released late Monday. “Because there’s no doubt in my mind that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin wanted me to lose and wanted Trump to win. And there’s no doubt in my mind that there are a tangle of financial relationships between Trump and his operation with Russian money. And there’s no doubt in my mind that the Trump campaign and other associates have worked really hard to hide their connections with Russians.”

“I’m convinced of it,” she continued in the interview tied to Tuesday’s release of her book “What Happened.” “I happen to believe in the rule of law and believe in evidence, so I’m not going to go off and make all kinds of outrageous claims. But if you look at what we’ve learned since (the election), it’s pretty troubling.”

The former Democratic presidential candidate said she believes more lurks behind Russia’s hacking of the election, WikiLeaks’ release of emails from the Democratic National Committee and from her campaign chairman, John Podesta, and the recent revelations that the Kremlin bought Facebook ads to plant fake news stories.

And then there’s the role Donald Trump played, she said.

“Trump mentioned WikiLeaks 160 times in October,” she said. “Why?​ He’s trying to let people know what he thinks is important and also what he’s done and what he knows about? Which I think is a fair question,​”​ she said.

Trump has called claims he colluded with the Kremlin during the election a “witch hunt” and has said the story was created by Democrats as an excuse for losing the election.

​Clinton also said Moscow was motivated to interfere in the election because of Putin’s “personal vendetta” against her, which can be traced to NATO’s expansion in Eastern Europe during President Bill Clinton’s administration and the part she played when she was secretary of state in encouraging demonstrations against him in 2011.​

​”Yet I never imagined that he would have the audacity to launch a massive covert attack against our own democracy, right under our noses — and that he’d get away with it,” she told the newspaper.