Trump and his fellow conspiracy theorists on the right believe that the server would contain evidence proving that Russia wasn’t responsible for the hack. In the memo about the call released by the White House, Trump said, “I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say CrowdStrike,” followed by an ellipsis, followed by “The server, they say Ukraine has it.” Trump brought up CrowdStrike and the server in a July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity firm that investigated the 2016 hack into DNC emails and turned its findings over to the FBI. Trump pushed the same line last week in the Oval Office, stating, “For instance, I still ask the FBI, ‘Where is the server?’ How come the FBI never got the server from the DNC? Where is the server? I want to see the server.” “It was taken by somebody, I guess it’s CrowdStrike, that’s what I have heard.” “There was a server, the DNC server, that had never went to the FBI - the FBI didn’t take it,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News. If it does lead to President Trump’s impeachment, it will be because he believed it. It’s the conspiracy theory that could bring down a presidency: the idea that an old Democratic National Committee email server is hidden somewhere in Ukraine and could rewrite the history of the 2016 election.
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