{"id":599,"date":"2019-05-03T00:38:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T00:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/?p=599"},"modified":"2019-05-03T00:38:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T00:38:46","slug":"ukrainian-embassy-confirms-dnc-contractor-solicited-trump-dirt-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/2019\/05\/03\/ukrainian-embassy-confirms-dnc-contractor-solicited-trump-dirt-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian embassy confirms DNC contractor solicited Trump dirt in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The boomerang from the Democratic Party\u2019s failed attempt to connect Donald Trump to Russia\u2019s 2016 election meddling is picking up speed, and its flight path crosses right through Moscow\u2019s pesky neighbor, Ukraine. That is where there is growing evidence a foreign power was asked, and in some cases tried, to help Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>In its most detailed account yet, Ukraine\u2019s embassy in Washington says a Democratic National Committee insider during the 2016 election solicited dirt on Donald Trump\u2019s campaign chairman and even tried to enlist the country&#8217;s president to help.<\/p>\n<p>In written answers to questions, Ambassador Valeriy Chaly&#8217;s office says DNC contractor Alexandra Chalupa sought information from the Ukrainian government on Paul Manafort\u2019s dealings inside the country, in hopes of forcing the issue before Congress.-<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/441892-ukrainian-embassy-confirms-dnc-contractor-solicited-trump-dirt-in-2016\">TheHill<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-text=\"Ukrainian embassy confirms DNC contractor solicited Trump dirt in 2016\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/441892-ukrainian-embassy-confirms-dnc-contractor-solicited-trump-dirt-in-2016\" data-hashtags=\"DNCcollusion\" data-show-count=\"false\">Tweet<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boomerang from the Democratic Party\u2019s failed attempt to connect Donald Trump to Russia\u2019s 2016 election meddling is picking up speed, and its flight path crosses right through Moscow\u2019s pesky neighbor, Ukraine. That is where there is growing evidence a foreign power was asked, and in some cases tried, to help Hillary Clinton. In its<a href=\"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/2019\/05\/03\/ukrainian-embassy-confirms-dnc-contractor-solicited-trump-dirt-in-2016\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}