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tRump associates' links with Russia: what we know so far - The Guardian (with pretty pictures)
Jeff Sessions met Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak twice last year - encounters that the attorney general did not disclose when asked under oath at his Senate confirmation hearing in January about possible contacts between tRump’s presidential campaign and Moscow.
The former senator from Alabama was one of tRump’s early and most vocal surrogates on the campaign trail. Asked point-blank at his confirmation hearing “Have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after election day?”, Sessions responded: “No.”
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Flynn, who resigned on 13 February after barely three weeks as national security adviser...
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Paul Manafort, a former chairman of the tRump campaign, is the only named individual among an unspecified number of tRump associates alleged to have been in regular contact with Russian intelligence officials in 2016.
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Compromising material... The key instances alleged in the dossier were a pair of meetings held with Russian officials in July 2016 by the businessman Carter Page, who tRump formerly described as a foreign policy adviser.
Rex Tillerson...tRump’s pick for secretary of state forged close ties with Russia during more than 40 years working for ExxonMobil.
- The Guardian
The former senator from Alabama was one of tRump’s early and most vocal surrogates on the campaign trail. Asked point-blank at his confirmation hearing “Have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after election day?”, Sessions responded: “No.”
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Flynn, who resigned on 13 February after barely three weeks as national security adviser...
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Paul Manafort, a former chairman of the tRump campaign, is the only named individual among an unspecified number of tRump associates alleged to have been in regular contact with Russian intelligence officials in 2016.
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Compromising material... The key instances alleged in the dossier were a pair of meetings held with Russian officials in July 2016 by the businessman Carter Page, who tRump formerly described as a foreign policy adviser.
Rex Tillerson...tRump’s pick for secretary of state forged close ties with Russia during more than 40 years working for ExxonMobil.
- The Guardian
One after the other, they all tie back to two things: tRump and an adversary to the United States of America.
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