{"id":7008,"date":"2018-04-20T11:27:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T18:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=7008"},"modified":"2018-04-20T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T18:27:09","slug":"dnc-sues-trumps-2016-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=7008","title":{"rendered":"DNC sues Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-elm-loc=\"1\">The Democratic National Committee filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit Friday against the Russian government, the Trump campaign and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/a-german-hacker-offers-a-rare-look-inside-the-secretive-world-of-julian-assange-and-wikileaks\/2018\/01\/17\/e6211180-f311-11e7-b390-a36dc3fa2842_story.html?utm_term=.2055b1d859f8\">WikiLeaks organization\u00a0<\/a>alleging a far-reaching conspiracy to disrupt the 2016 campaign and tilt the election to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"2\">The complaint, filed in federal district court in Manhattan, alleges that top Trump campaign officials conspired with the Russian government and its military spy agency to hurt Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and help Trump by hacking the computer networks of the Democratic Party and disseminating stolen material found there.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"3\">\u201cDuring the 2016 presidential campaign, Russia launched an all-out assault on our democracy, and it found a willing and active partner in Donald Trump\u2019s campaign,\u201d DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"4\">\u201cThis 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"5\">The case asserts that the Russian hacking campaign \u2014 combined with Trump associates\u2019 contacts with Russia and the campaign\u2019s public cheerleading of the hacks \u2014 amounted to an illegal conspiracy to interfere in the election that caused serious damage to the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic National Committee filed a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7009,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008\/revisions\/7009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}