11/02/2017

By: John MacKenzie, Staff Reporter

Hillary Clinton, failed Democratic presidential candidate, on Wednesday night defended paying for a fake dossier that tried to tie President Donald Trump to Russia during the 2016 election.

In a late-night interview on “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” Mrs. Clinton said there was legal pretense for her campaign to pay for opposition research.

“I think most serious people understand that,” Clinton said. “This was research started by a Republican donor during the Republican primary, and when Trump got the nomination for the Republican Party, the people doing it came to my campaign lawyer.”

Mrs. Clinton went on to say, “I mean, he (Trump) has to know — we’ll find out what he knew and how involved he was — but he had to know that people were making outreach to Russians, to the highest level of the Kremlin, in order to help him, to hurt me, but more importantly to sow this divisiveness.”

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Photo and Video: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah