In June 2017, the president tweeted his doubts about the investigation of the DNC breach. In one way or another, this falsehood has been pushed by Trump and his allies for the past few years. (Again, Crowdstrike was involved in the DNC hacking case, which is altogether different from the Clinton emails.) But we found no evidence that Crowdstrike ever worked on issues around Clinton’s private email server. And the reason why has to do with a conspiracy theory that claims the firm hid a server of Clinton’s emails from the intelligence community’s investigation. Think of that," Trump said.Īround the same time, Crowdstrike started trending on Twitter. "I think that one of the great crimes committed is Hillary Clinton deleting 33,000 emails after Congress sends her a subpoena. 25, Trump addressed his Crowdstrike reference head-on.Īfter a reporter asked him if he believes that "the emails from Hillary Clinton" are in Ukraine, Trump said, "I think they could be." And therein lies the fodder for the Crowdstrike conspiracy theory.ĭuring a press conference with Zelensky on Sept. Still, Trump has repeatedly questioned the intelligence community’s findings, even going so far as to suggest that there’s a missing DNC server that the FBI did not analyze. That conclusion was reached partially with the help of Crowdstrike’s audit of the DNC servers. In October 2016, the intelligence community released a statement saying it was confident that Russia was behind the DNC hack. "As we’ve stated before, we stand by our findings and conclusions that have been fully supported by the U.S. "With regards to our investigation of the DNC hack in 2016, we provided all forensic evidence and analysis to the FBI," said Ilina Cashiola, director of public relations at Crowdstrike, in a statement sent to PolitiFact. (We should note that Clinton’s email server and the DNC servers were two entirely different sets of computers.)
That controversy served as the fuel for Trump’s belief that, despite Crowdstrike and the FBI’s investigation of the DNC hack, Clinton’s campaign was hiding something. (The FBI found no evidence that the emails were deleted deliberately to avoid the subpoena, but more on this later.) The cyberattack and related leaks added to the nationwide firestorm over Clinton’s use of email.Ĭlinton had previously drawn criticism for conducting State Department business on a private email server as secretary of state, and about 33,000 emails were deleted after she received a subpoena for Benghazi-related communications in March 2015. RELATED STORY: The Russia investigation and Donald Trump: a timeline from on-the-record sources (updated) WikiLeaks also claimed it had emails from Clinton, with Guccifer being its source.
Then, a Romanian hacker named Guccifer 2.0 claimed credit for the cyberattack and leaked DNC emails to the American press.
Crowdstrike then kicked the hackers off the servers. The firm found that two groups of Russian hackers had infiltrated DNC servers for about a year, giving them access to emails and opposition research about Trump. In May 2016, the Democratic National Committee hired Crowdstrike after it began to suspect that its servers had been breached. In essence, Trump is rehashing a conspiracy theory about the 2016 election and has suggested that former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s missing emails have somehow wound up in Ukraine.Ĭrowdstrike is an American cybersecurity firm that aims to safeguard its clients from cyberattacks. PolitiFact went back into our fact-checking files to provide context about Crowdstrike. A whistleblower’s complaint has said those events represent Trump’s attempts to use foreign countries to influence the 2020 election.īut what is Trump’s reference to Crowdstrike all about - and what are the facts? 25, Trump asked Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his family’s dealings in Ukraine. That call is now driving a congressional impeachment inquiry of Trump.Īccording to a readout of the call published by the White House on Sept. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation." "I guess you have one of your wealthy people. "I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike," Trump said during his July 25 call with Volodymyr Zelensky. Right after President Donald Trump asked the president of Ukraine "do us a favor," Trump made an unexplained reference to a computer server.
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