Election to obstruction: many tentacles

Gregory Korte , USA TODAY
Published 12:04 p.m. ET June 17, 2017 | Updated 4 hours ago

... Clinton's emails were hacked .. and released on .. Wikileaks ... In October, as the Clinton campaign was weathering near-daily disclosures of internal emails, 17 U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that the Russian government was behind the hacking of the emails ... In December, incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn talked to Russian Ambassador .. Kislyak about relaxing sanctions ... During the transition, Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Russian officials at Trump Tower in an apparent attempt to create a “back channel” between the White House and the Kremlin ... Sessions .. volunteered, "I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I didn't have — did not have communications with the Russians." That turned out not to be true ... Trump abruptly fired FBI Director James Comey — the man responsible for the various Russia investigations — on May 9 ... Trump later told NBC's Lester Holt he was thinking about "the Russian thing" when he made the decision ... The day after firing Comey ... Trump divulged classified information to the Russian diplomats ...

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