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Trump's associates in Moscow
https://nucleardiner.wordpress.com/2016/07/24/trump-and-russia/<snip>
This post looks into people working with Trump on the campaign. I hope to follow with posts on other issues that Josh raises. If you think I’ve missed something, please let me know!
Trump has openly declared admiration for Putin and supports some of his policies. There have been a number of articles detailing some of the connections. But the journalistic convention of telling a story can obscure an evaluation of the numbers and types of contacts. I thought it would be useful to try to pull the latter out of the former.
A number of Donald Trump’s advisors have connections to Russian-connected organizations: Paul Manafort, Carter Page, Michael Flynn, and Richard Burt.
....more at link