Who served as the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013.A conservative Republican,appointed by President George W. After Trump's attorney plead guilty to lying before congress, Trump on aknowledged 'he did in fact have business deals in Russia with Putin' (Cohen 32page transcript )Ībout: Robert Swan Mueller III (born August 7, 1944) is an American attorney The Russian GRU intelligence also used Facebook, Twitter and a number of Social Media platforms to advance Trump's campaign while pushing the hacked data through the "Internet Research Agency" as Russian troll farm. Trump denied throughout the 2016 campaign through 2018 of "having any Russian business" or acknowleding knowing about the Russian attempts to influence the U.S. Russia, in return used hackers and Russian intelligence to hack into the DNC, steal data and strategicallyĭisperse the hacked data through Wikileaks.
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Trump's campaign after the Trump Tower meeting with eight High level Russian officials would go on to make favorable overtures to Russia praising Putin publicly in campaigns and subsequently removing the RNC's platform against Russian agression in Ukraine by watering down the RNC's position on Ukraine to a pro Russian one. show that the Russians asked Trump to remove the Magnitsky Act) B] The Trump Organization according to the Trump's lawyer -Michael Cohen stated the Trump organization, "planned to give Russian President Vladimir Putin a $50 million penthouse in Trump Tower Moscow with the development of the new Moscow Trump Hotel. I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Russia.” While denying any relationship with Putin.a campaigningTrump aides were in talks with the Putin to fund and approve the $3B Trump Moscow Tower (according to his lawyer -Attorney Michael Cohen now convicted of lying to Congress ) Further emails from Felix Sater and testamony by then former campaign advisor Paul Manafort now also a convicted felon) buttress Trump's quid pro quo with the Kremlin by A] effecting a meeting at Trump Tower NY to "accept assistance from the Kremlin" (Details of the June 2016 meeting per the President's son Don Jr. Far more than our president has been a leader.” Trump added: “I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Putin. “Now, it’s a very different system and I don’t happen to like the system, but certainly in that system, he’s been a leader. “The man has very strong control over a country,” he said. Donald Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and said that he was doing a better job than President Obama. Almost mmediately, Trump begins to leverage his presidential canidacy to the Russian Government. Trump, after years of proposing " Trump Moscow Tower" a $3B project decides to run for office of the U.S. Obama administration announces measures to punish Russia for 2016 election interference This is the executive order released by the White House. To punish Russia for meddling in the U.S. The Obama administration announced a set of measures on Thursday Obama administration imposing sanctions against Russia. US intelligence community concluded was a Russian government-backed cyber-attack directed to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.īarack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and closed two Russian compounds in response.