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Trump Campaign Is Sued Over Leaked Emails Linked to Russians
WASHINGTON — Two Democratic Party donors and a former party staff member have filed an invasion of privacy lawsuit
against President Trump’s campaign and a longtime informal adviser,
Roger J. Stone Jr., accusing them of conspiring in the release of hacked
Democratic emails and files that exposed their personal information to
the public.
The
case was organized by Protect Democracy, a government watchdog group
run by former Obama administration lawyers. It filed the claim just
short of a deadline under a one-year statute of limitations for privacy
invasion lawsuits: WikiLeaks published the first archives of stolen Democratic National Committee emails,
which intelligence agencies say Russia hacked to harm Hillary Clinton’s
presidential campaign and help Mr. Trump, last July 22.
Mr.
Trump and his political advisers, including Mr. Stone, have repeatedly
denied colluding with Russia, and the 44-page complaint, filed on
Wednesday in the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia,
does not contain any hard evidence that his campaign did. But it is
seeking to depose witnesses and obtain campaign emails and other
documents during the discovery process that is a standard part of
lawsuits.
If
a judge permits the case to reach that stage, the lawsuit would become a
new and independent fact-finding investigation into the Trump-Russia
issue — one that is overseen by a judge rather than by congressional
Republicans, like the oversight inquiries conducted by the House and
Senate Intelligence Committees, or by the Trump administration, like the
criminal inquiry led by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.
“These
plaintiffs are using the law and the American civil justice system the
way it was intended: to vindicate important rights and values, such as
the right to privacy and the right to participate in the political
process; and to deter others who might consider colluding with a foreign
government for political gain,” said Ian Bassin, the executive director
of Protect Democracy. “They want to ensure that what they have gone
through does not become something we accept as part of our democracy.”
A
spokesman for Mr. Trump’s outside legal team did not respond to a
request for comment, but Mr. Stone called the lawsuit meritless and said
he expected it to be “quickly dismissed.”
He
also said “there is no evidence whatsoever” that he had advance
knowledge of the hacking or that the Trump campaign was involved in it
“if they were even hacked.”
Among
the plaintiffs is Scott Comer, who was the chief of staff in the
finance department of the Democratic National Committee, and whose
hacked emails revealed to his grandparents that he is gay, which
strained family relations, the lawsuit said.
Mr.
Comer also received harassing and threatening phone calls, and was
marginalized at work because of comments he had made about co-workers,
and eventually left his job, it said.
The
plaintiffs also include two Democratic Party donors, Roy Cockrum and
Eric Schoenberg, whose Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home
addresses and other personal details became public when WikiLeaks
published the files.
The
lawsuit said the disclosures resulted in attempts by strangers to steal
the plaintiffs’ identities and obtain credit in their names, which
caused “significant distress and anxiety and will require lifelong
vigilance and expense.”
The
complaint noted that the goal of the hacking “was to harm the
Democratic Party’s candidate for president of the United States and
improve the Trump campaign’s likelihood of success.” But, it said, “the
direct victims included Mr. Cockrum, Mr. Schoenberg and Mr. Comer.”
The
complaint largely consists of a catalog of publicly known facts that it
presents as circumstantial evidence that the defendants had the motive,
desire and opportunity to conspire with Russia. It noted public
statements by the defendants and revelations about meetings and contacts
with Russians that various associates of Mr. Trump concealed when
applying for security clearances.
Those
facts include the Trump campaign’s efforts to soften language in the
Republican Party platform condemning Russia’s intervention in Ukraine,
and the disclosure in recent days
that in June 2016, Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, eldest son and
son-in-law attended a meeting with a Russian lawyer whom they believed
would give them dirt on Mrs. Clinton as part of Moscow’s support for Mr.
Trump.
In
addition to the invasion of privacy claim, the lawsuit contains two
counts of other harms it said were a foreseeable consequence of the
disclosure of the stolen emails: intentional infliction of emotional
distress, and the violation of a statute that forbids conspiracies to
intimidate classes of lawful voters from participating in the democratic
process, or to injure them for having done so. The latter charge was
brought under a federal statute
that dates from a Reconstruction Era law to help combat the Ku Klux
Klan. The lawsuit seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
It
does not name as defendants Russia, which has sovereign immunity, or
WikiLeaks, whose founder Julian Assange, an Australian citizen, is
living in the embassy of Ecuador in London.
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