Trump brings up ‘Pak mystery man’ to counter lawsuit

: President Donald Trump on Friday introduced a “Pakistani mystery man” who he claimed had unspecified “documents” that would help him counter the Democrat’s lawsuit against his campaign, WikiLeaks and Russia for alleged manipulation of the 2016 presidential election.

“Just heard the Campaign was sued by the Obstructionist Democrats. This can be good news in that we will now counter for the DNC Server that they refused to give to the FBI, the Debbie Wasserman Schultz Servers and Documents held by the Pakistani mystery man and Clinton Emails,” Trump tweeted on Friday soon after the DNC, or Democratic National Committee, announced it had filed a lawsuit in a Manhattan court.

The ‘Pakistani Mystery Man’ mentioned in Trump’s tweet is a nod to aggressive reporting in conservative media on Imran Awan, a Pakistani American computer technician.

Imran Awan, along with some family members, had done IT jobs for US lawmakers for several years. Imran, his brothers Abid Awan and Jamal Awan, as well as his wife Hina Alvi and friend Rao Abbas, were subject of a federal investigation.

The investigators of the Inspector General’s Office had been quietly tracking the five IT workers’ digital footprints for months, according to a Washington Post report on the issue last year. HTC

WASHINGTON