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DNC sues Russia, Trump campaign and WikiLeaks for conspiracy

The Democratic National Committee on Friday filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Russia, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks that alleges a massive conspiracy to swing the 2016 election in favor of the president.

The complaint, filed in federal court in Manhattan, alleges that top Trump campaign officials conspired with the Kremlin to damage Hillary Clinton and help Trump by hacking the DNC’s computers and publishing stolen emails on WikiLeaks.

“No one is above the law,” reads the beginning of the DNC’s complaint, which was obtained by The Post.

“In the run-up to the 2016 election, Russia mounted a brazen attack on American Democracy. The opening salvo was a cyber attack on the DNC, carried out on American soil,” said the lawsuit, filed by lawyer Michael Eisenkraft.





“During the 2016 presidential campaign, Russia launched an all-out assault on our democracy, and it found a willing and active partner in Donald Trump’s campaign,” DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement.

“This constituted an act of unprecedented treachery: the campaign of a nominee for President of the United States in league with a hostile foreign power to bolster its own chance to win the presidency,” he said.

The suit charges that the Russian hacking campaign along with Team Trump’s contacts with Russia and gleeful praise of the hacks added up to a conspiracy to interfere in the election and hurt Democrats.

Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether Trump associates coordinated with the Kremlin’s meddling.

From the day he was inaugurated, the president has dismissed the allegations of Russian meddling and the subsequent investigation as a hoax, witch hunt and fake news.





But several members of his campaign team have either been indicted or have already pleaded guilty to various charges as a result of Mueller’s probe.

Defendants also include WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, lobbyist Richard Gates, and Russian oligarchs Aras Agalarov and Emin Agalarov, close pals of the president and his son Donald Trump Jr. The suit does not name the president as a defendant.

Also named is George Papadopoulos, a former member of the foreign policy advisory panel to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and Trump adviser Roger Stone.

The suit filed Friday seeks millions of dollars in compensation to offset damage the party suffered from the hacks.





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