Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence
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Trump aides were in constant touch with senior Russian officials during campaign
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/14/politics/donald-trump-aides-russians-campaign/index.html
Both Obama and Trump were briefed In January before Trump took office.
5 times Donald Trump’s team denied contact with Russia
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Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials.
The intercepted calls are different from the wiretapped conversations last year between Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, and Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States. During those calls, which led to Mr. Flynn’s resignation on Monday night, the two men discussed sanctions that the Obama administration imposed on Russia in December.
But the cases are part of the routine electronic surveillance of communications of foreign officials by American intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
Two days after the election in November, Sergei A. Ryabkov, the deputy Russian foreign minister, said that “there were contacts” during the campaign between Russian officials and Mr. Trump’s team.
“Obviously, we know most of the people from his entourage,” Mr. Ryabkov said in an interview with the Russian Interfax news agency.
Trump aides were in constant touch with senior Russian officials during campaign
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/14/politics/donald-trump-aides-russians-campaign/index.html
Both Obama and Trump were briefed In January before Trump took office.
President-elect Trump and then-President Barack Obama were both briefed on details of the extensive communications between suspected Russian operatives and people associated with the Trump campaign and the Trump business, according to US officials familiar with the matter.
5 times Donald Trump’s team denied contact with Russia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...onald-trumps-team-denied-contact-with-russia/
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