The US Democratic National Committee (DNC) has sued President Donald Trump’s campaign, the Russian government and the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks over an alleged conspiracy to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan on Friday, alleges that the campaign “gleefully accepted Russia’s help” to defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.
The defendants conspired before the election to hack into the DNC’s computer network and disclose the stolen information to increase Trump’s chances of winning the election, it adds.
Among the key defendants in the suit are the Russian Federation, Russia’s military intelligence agency as well as WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange.
Although it does not name Trump as a defendant, the suit has the names of individuals either presently or previously in his inner circle, including Donald Trump Jr., his son-in-law, White House adviser Jared Kushner,…