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James Clapper: “It was a high confidence assessment that the preference here was, one, to damage Hillary Clinton, and two, to advantage…”

On the recordJune 20, 2019
It was a high confidence assessment that the preference here was, one, to damage Hillary Clinton, and two, to advantage Donald Trump.
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James Clapper
District of Columbia

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Clapper confirms the intelligence community's assessment regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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