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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRussian deputy minister: we reached out to Trump entourage during the campaign.
Other sources say they reached out to "Senators and other political allies."
Which Senators?
Which political allies?
This piece was from November but it didn't get much coverage at the time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/world/europe/trump-campaign-russia.html
MOSCOW The Russian government maintained contacts with members of Donald J. Trumps immediate entourage during the American presidential campaign, one of Russias top diplomats said Thursday.
There were contacts, Sergei A. Ryabkov, the deputy foreign minister, was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. We continue to do this and have been doing this work during the election campaign, he said.
Mr. Ryabkov said officials in the Russian Foreign Ministry were familiar with many of the people he described as Mr. Trumps entourage. I cannot say that all, but a number of them maintained contacts with Russian representatives, Mr. Ryabkov said.
Later, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said Mr. Ryabkov had been referring to American politicians and supporters of Mr. Trump, not members of his campaign staff. The contacts were carried out through the Russian ambassador in Washington, who reached out to the senators and other political allies to get a better sense of Mr. Trumps positions on various issues involving Russia.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Oh wow.
This just gets curiouser and curiouser.
C_U_L8R
(45,029 posts)A compulsive liar like Trump will always run
into a wall where his deceptions are unsustainable...
especially being in the public eye 24/7.
He's unraveling before he's even taken office.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Response to pnwmom (Original post)
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Jean-Jacques Roussea
(475 posts)It's too dangerous to have a close relationship with any authoritarian ex-KGB that deliberately undermines our elections to place a candidate to his liking in power. We'll be no better than Chechnya soon. Back to Moscow you commie troll.
Jean-Jacques Roussea
(475 posts)All these were information released by the Russian gov, showing the Donny only talks about what they allow him to first
2 days after the election
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/305362-russia-we-talked-with-trumps-team-during-campaign
6 days after the election
http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/russia-ready-to-fix-ties-with-washington/news-story/cf28a0955860aabb90acbd160c8e5bb5
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/world/europe/putin-calls-trump.html