CHINA/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An FBI official said Wednesday [8-29-18] the bureau has not found any evidence to back up a claim made by a conservative news organization and spread by President Donald Trump that Hillary Clinton’s private email server was hacked by a Chinese-owned company. ‘The FBI has not found any evidence the servers were compromised,” the official told CNN and other media outlets Wednesday. The Daily Caller reported late Tuesday [8-28-18] that an unnamed Chinese firm operating in the Washington, DC, area hacked Clinton’s private server and obtained ‘nearly all her emails.’ Trump quickly seized on the report to call on federal law enforcement to investigate the matter. The report that Trump was using cited two anonymous sources briefed on the matter, though Trump himself said hours later on Twitter that stories based on anonymous sources are ‘fiction.’ In one tweet, the President also made light of Russia’s attacks on the 2016 US election…The FBI’s statement to all media directly disputing Trump’s claim was a rare move that did not go unnoticed by former law enforcement officials.”
–Maegan Vazquez and Laura Jarrett, “FBI official pushes back on Trump-spread claim that Chinese firm hacked Clinton emails,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, August 29, 2018 5:32 pm