And the timing was perfect: To Stranahan, a Democratic operative hunting for oppo in Ukraine was just one thread hinting at a vast counter-narrative to the mainstream story of the day: that Russian intelligence forces orchestrated the hacking and leak of DNC and Clinton campaign emails that may have tipped the scales of the election. Most immediately, it provided fodder for the theory that Russia might have been set up, and that Trump was the victim of an even more sinister, globe-spanning conspiracy to delegitimize his presidency. The hypnotic notion that Ukraine, not Russia, was the true villain of the 2016 election story proved irresistible for several reasons. “I could just see this was a big deal,” Stranahan told me, recalling how he dove deeper and deeper into the story-or, as some people might call it, a rabbit hole. Back in 2017, in the days before Donald Trump stormed the White House, Breitbart reporter Lee Stranahan digested what he believed to be an explosive, game-changing story: As Russian operatives were busy trying to secure the 2016 election for Trump, certain Ukrainian officials had been conspiring on the other side to boost Hillary Clinton, including by helping a Ukrainian-American DNC consultant dig up dirt on Paul Manafort.
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