Hillary Clinton approved of an effort in the months before the 2016 election to provide the press with research purporting to show a computer link between the company of her GOP rival, Donald Trump, and a Russian bank, her presidential campaign manager Robby Mook testified on Friday. The testimony came in the criminal trial of lawyer Michael Sussmann, who is charged with lying to the FBI about his motives for providing that research to the bureau in September 2016.

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