More Than 100 Contacts With Russians Before the Inauguration

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By KAREN YOURISH and LARRY BUCHANAN JAN. 26, 2019

... Among these contacts are more than 100 in-person meetings, phone calls, text messages, emails and private messages on Twitter. Mr. Trump and his campaign repeatedly denied having such contacts with Russians during the 2016 election ...

Mr. Trump Jr. had various contacts with Russians and a Russian intermediary regarding the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, as well as the possibility of setting up a campaign page on a Russian social media site. He also exchanged private messages with WikiLeaks ...

Mr. Kushner met with Mr. Kislyak during the transition and discussed opening a communications channel with Russian officials. He also attended the Trump Tower meeting ...

Mr. Stone sold himself to the campaign as a conduit of inside information from WikiLeaks. In an indictment unsealed on Jan. 25, the special counsel disclosed evidence that a top campaign official dispatched Mr. Stone to get information from WikiLeaks about the thousands of hacked Democratic emails.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/26/us/politics/trump-contacts-russians-wikileaks.html

[madaboutharry]

1. It was a wide and deep conspiracy.

They all belong in jail.

[struggle4progress]

2. Watching the GOP try to stop sanctions against Russia and pretend nothing's happening here

is a surreal experience

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

3. All the National brow beating and shaming about Patriotism since 911 and before...

was just a bunch of bullshit. The trumps have given away the farm and it was perfectly ok bc...tax cuts, and Supreme Court, and abortion. They have traded everything for those three things. TRILLIONS of defense dollars spent developing weapons and secret agents...jus blown away bc they wanted to appear popular, but also, to profit on the backs of all of us. Appalling. Gen Flynn.....grrrrrr. He set the tone and it was down hill from there.