12/3/2023 0 Comments Russian dossier fbi text message![]() ![]() ![]() On Friday, Page, Paul Manafort, and Roger Stone volunteered to be interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee as part of its investigation into Russia's election-related meddling. Scandal: For 18 months, the FBI has been fixated on determining whether President Trump worked with Russia to influence the 2016 election. Recent revelations about Manafort's ties to Russia placed him at the center of a media firestorm last Wednesday, when the AP reported that he was paid $10 million in the mid-2000's to lobby on behalf of Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska in a way that would "greatly benefit" Russian President Vladimir Putin.Īt least five other Trump associates - Jeff Sessions, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, Carter Page, and JD Gordon - are now reported to have met with Russia's ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, in the latter half of 2016 as Russia was allegedly attempting to sway the outcome of the election in Trump's favor. They have been asked to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, and preserve any relevant documents, about contact they may have made with Russians during the election.įlynn, Page, and Kislyak were named in the dossier as being complicit in the alleged collusion. In July 2016, the FBI began investigating the Russian government’s attempt to influence the 2016 presidential election, including whether President Donald Trump’s campaign associates. It also alleges that Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, managed the communication between Russia and the campaign. The dossier gets passed around Washington (John McCain gives a copy to the FBI) and fuels speculation in the media that Trump is part of a Russian conspiracy. The document includes details about an alleged quid-pro-quo in which Russia agreed to leak the hacked Democratic National Committee emails to WikiLeaks in exchange for the Trump campaign sidelining Russian aggression in Ukraine as a campaign issue. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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