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New declassified information claims the Clinton campaign put together a plan to link Donald Trump to Russia
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The new documents are an annex to a report from several years ago by special counsel John Durham
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Those documents show conversations between high level Democrats and Democratic donors. The documents show memos that refer to plans from the Clinton campaign to link Trump to Russian organized crime and discredit the presidential nominee
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The new documents also allege a plan to link Trump to Russia was to help distract from Clinton's email scandal
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Directions to do that allegedly came from former President Barack Obama himself
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That plan included using all administrative levers to mitigate negative effects on Clinton from the scandal
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In a statement, CIA Director John Ratcliffe said, quote, Today, CIA and the Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi are taking a bold step forward in declassifying the underlying intelligence in the Durham appendix, showing the false Trump-Russia collusion narrative for what it was, a coordinated plan to prevent and destroy Donald Trump's presidency
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Neither Clinton nor Obama have commented on the new documents. For Straight Arrow News, I'm Lauren Keenan
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