'Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did,' Hill testified before the House impeachment inquiry panel. The president repeated his claim one day after Fiona Hill, a former Russia adviser on the White House National Security Council, admonished Republicans for pushing unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 presidential election. citizen who immigrated as a child and graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology. In fact, company co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch is a Russian-born U.S. One version of the debunked theory holds that CrowdStrike is owned by a wealthy Ukrainian. They investigated the DNC hack in June 2016 and traced it to two groups of hackers connected to a Russian intelligence service - not Ukraine. Trump's claim on Ukraine being behind the 2016 election interference has been discredited by intelligence agencies.Д¬rowdStrike is an internet security firm based in California. 'They gave the server to CrowdStrike, which is a company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian,' Trump said. He repeated his assertion that Ukrainians might have hacked the Democratic National Committee's network in 2016 and framed Russia for the crime. Trump's July 25 call with Ukraine's PresidentВ VolodymyrВ Zelensky is at the centre of the House impeachment probe, which is looking into Trump's pressure on Ukraine to investigate political rivals as he held back nearly $400 million. Trump called in to Fox & Friends and said he was trying to root out corruption in the Eastern European nation when he withheld aid over the summer. President Donald Trump on Friday promoted a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election, a day after a former White House adviser called it a 'fictional narrative' and said it played into Russia's hands.

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