CLAIM: Russia didn't hack DNC servers in 2016—Ukraine did. They did it to help Clinton and the DNC get out of the country digital evidence Clinton's private email server had been hacked.
ORIGIN: 2016.
STATUS: ❌False❌—Russian disinformation.
CLAIM: Former Vice President Joe Biden bribed then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in 2015 into ending a criminal investigation of his son Hunter by withholding aid to Ukraine.
ORIGIN: 2018.
STATUS: ❌False❌—Russian disinformation.
CLAIM: Poroshenko worked with Ukraine's independent anti-corruption bureau—NABU—to forge evidence of domestic Ukrainian crimes by Paul Manafort to hurt Trump's campaign in mid-2016.
Origin: 2016.
STATUS: ❌False❌—Russian disinformation.
CLAIM: In 2016, a DNC opposition researcher worked with the Ukrainian embassy to acquire and disseminate non-public intel on Manafort aimed at harming Trump.
ORIGIN: 2016.
STATUS:❌False❌—Russian disinformation.
NOTE: See next tweet.
NOTE: Whereas there's no evidence for the CROWDSTRIKE, BURISMA, or BLACK LEDGER conspiracy theories, the false UKRAINE-CHALUPA-DNC conspiracy theory is built on a tiny stock of accurate information. So Trump will focus on this theory.