Donald Trump was furious on Saturday after Hillary Clinton’s former campaign manager admitted in federal court on Friday that the Clinton campaign, authorised by the candidate herself, was responsible for leaking a story to journalists about the possibility of connections between him and a Russian bank.

Ms Clinton’s ex-top deputy, Robby Mook, was testifying in the trial of Michael Sussman, a former lawyer for the Clinton campaign now indicted for lying to the FBI as part of special counsel John Durham’s probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.

Mr Mook’s testimony on Friday concerned the publication of an article in Slate on 31 October 2016, just days before voters headed to the polls and elected Donald Trump. The article reported on pings, or electronic communications, between a server in the Trump Organisation and campagn’s headquarters on Fifth Avenue in New York and two servers registered to Alfa Bank, a Russian financial institution owned by Mikhail Friedman, an oligarch sanctioned by the US amid the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

According to Mr Mook, Hillary Clinton herself authorised information about the server communications to Slate’s Franklin Foer, who wrote up the story and published it just over a week before the election. The story was promoted on Twitter by Ms Clinton as potentially “the key to unlocking the mystery of Trump’s ties to Russia”.

On Saturday, Mr Trump himself responded to Mr Mook’s testimony.

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