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Post by Admin on Jul 6, 2018 17:51:38 GMT
Last week, ABC News’s Matthew Mosk and John Santucci reported that several wealthy Russians were “granted unusual access” to Trump inauguration parties back in January 2017 — and that Mueller was seeking to find out why. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard of Mueller’s interest in the inauguration. Back in April, CNN reported that the special counsel was investigating “whether wealthy Russians illegally funneled cash donations directly or indirectly into Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and inauguration” — and had even questioned some oligarchs directly. These reports have broken in the months since former Trump aide Rick Gates agreed to a plea deal with Mueller’s team in exchange for his cooperation. That may not be a coincidence — Gates was heavily involved in planning the inauguration, with a Yahoo News report in 2016 calling him the “shadow chair” of the event. Yet beyond just Russia, there have long been serious questions about the money behind Trump’s inauguration — and where, exactly, it went. Trump’s inaugural committee raised a truly astonishing $106.7 million, double the previous record set by Barack Obama’s 2009 inaugural. But what they did with it isn’t so clear.
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Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2018 18:08:16 GMT
Mueller states in the indictment that the infamous DNC hacker known as Guccifer 2.0 was an online persona created by the Russian officers to disperse documents stolen in the hack. Guccifer 2.0, who had been in contact with The Hill ahead of the 2016 election and released internal DNC documents, had claimed to be a Romanian hacker with no political ties. However, tools used in Guccifer 2.0’s breach had matched those used by Russian intelligence agencies. The indictment also alleged that the Russians created the site DCLeaks, which also posted stolen documents.
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Post by Admin on Jul 19, 2018 18:07:24 GMT
“Both were created and controlled by the Russian GRU,” Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said in announcing the charges. The indictment also includes the bombshell claim that an unnamed “candidate for the U.S. Congress” had contacted Guccifer 2.0 and requested information on their opponent that was stolen from the DNC. "The conspirators responded using the Guccifer 2.0 persona and sent the candidate stolen documents related to the candidate's opponent," the document reads.
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Post by Admin on Jul 20, 2018 18:08:24 GMT
"I should have said 'wouldn't'" - President @realdonaldtrump appears to backtrack on his claim that he "didn't see any reason" why Russia would be involved in US election meddling #TrumpPutinSummit My cartoon Wednesday @thetimes. American Gothic in every sense.....arse-licking at the #Helsinki presser. #TrumpPutinSummit
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Post by Admin on Jul 22, 2018 18:09:16 GMT
Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page on Sunday called allegations that he was a Russian agent “spin,” a “ridiculous smear campaign” and “literally a complete joke” — but admitted that he had worked as an informal adviser to the Russian government.
Page appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” following the release Saturday of new documents tied to his wiretapping, including the government’s application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and subsequent renewals. He found himself sparring with an increasingly exasperated Jake Tapper, the host.
The FBI wrote in the documents that it believed Russia was trying to recruit Page, a foreign policy aide on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign who now sits at the eye of the storm in ongoing investigations into Russian electoral interference and possible Trump campaign collusion. Page called himself an “informal adviser” to Russia in a 2013 letter.
“I’ve never been an agent of foreign power by any stretch of the imagination,” Page said Sunday.
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