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Trump Campaign Calls DNC's Russia Hacking Suit Sour Grapes

  • Kushner and Stone also asked to have the suit tossed out
  • DNC says the men engaged in a massive conspiracy with Moscow
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump walk on the South Lawn of the White House to board Marine One on June 1, 2018.

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump walk on the South Lawn of the White House to board Marine One on June 1, 2018.

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President Donald Trump’s campaign organization told a judge that the Democratic National Committee made a specious attempt to "explain away" Hillary Clinton’s 2016 defeat by claiming in a lawsuit that there was a vast conspiracy with Russia and WikiLeaks to hack the DNC’s emails and tilt the election.

The racketeering suit against dozens of individuals and entities, including Trump campaign officials and Russian intelligence, also risks colliding with investigations by congressional committees and Special Counsel Robert Mueller, raising the possibility that the case would need to be put on hold, the campaign said Friday in a court filing seeking dismissal of the suit.