China, in his words · First term · № 48

On China

Asserted that China hacked Hillary Clinton's emails

“Hillary Clinton’s Emails, many of which are Classified Information, got hacked by China. Next move better be by the FBI & DOJ or, after all of their other missteps (Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr, FISA, Dirty Dossier etc.), their credibility will be forever gone!”
Said
, Post on Twitter (@realDonaldTrump)
Subject
hacking of Clinton emails
Threat
Military threat
Topic
Foreign policy
Era
First term

What the record showed

Trump had tweeted about the same report about three hours earlier, late on August 28. Later on August 29, an FBI official told NBC News, "The FBI has not found any evidence the (Clinton) servers were compromised." NBC reported that the claim came from a right-wing media story that cited two sources briefed on the matter, and that the FBI official pointed to a June 2018 Justice Department inspector general report on the Clinton email investigation.

Sources

  1. Tweet: 'Hillary Clinton's Emails, many of which are Classified Information, got hacked by China.' Twitter (@realDonaldTrump), Aug 29, 2018
  2. Tweet: 'Report just out: "China hacked Hillary Clinton's private Email Server."' Twitter (@realDonaldTrump), Aug 28, 2018
  3. FBI rebuts Trump tweet about China hacking Hillary Clinton's email NBC News, Aug 29, 2018