Here are 7 damning revelations from the new Senate report on Trump and Russia

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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/here-are-7-damning-revelations-from-the-new-senate-report-on-trump-and-russia/


Long after any debate about whether President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia’s 2016 election interference might lead to his impeachment had fizzled out, the Senate Intelligence Committee dropped a bomb of a report on Tuesday including explosive new details of the sordid affair.

While the new report doesn’t completely upend the story of the 2016 campaign as we knew it — much of the outline of the conduct was contained in former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report and previous news articles — it highlights new details and facts that emphasize the duplicity going on behind the scenes. It completely undermines the notion, pushed by the president and attorney general, that there was no basis for the investigation and shows there is ample evidence for what was once widely discussed as “collusion.” And this is particularly significant because the report was developed by a committee led by Republicans — they can’t be painted as enemies of the president, as Mueller’s team was.

Here are seven of the most striking details from the new report:

1. Paul Manafort worked closely with a “Russian intelligence officer.”

Among the most explosive allegations in the Mueller report were the ties between Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager for the summer of 2016, and Russia. In particular, he had a series of contacts and meetings with Konstantin Kilimnik, who was known to have a past with Russian intelligence.

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1. From the article, the other six:

2. Kilimnik and Manafort are even potentially tied to the criminal hacking of Democratic emails.

3. Trump discussed WikiLeaks with Stone during his 2016 campaign.

4. Stone e-mailed draft tweets to Trump attacking Hillary Clinton for her anti-Russia views.

5. Stone wanted WikiLeaks to drop new hacked emails after the Access Hollywood tape went live — and it did.

6. Kilimnik helped push the story that Ukraine intervened in 2016, but the committee found no evidence to support that view.

7. The committee believed that WikiLeaks was actively collaborating with Russia, despite its claims to the contrary.

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2. Fine that it's out, again, and might get a wider audience this time...but it's

frustrating because these connections and activities have been known for a while, to anyone who looked carefully. Certainly DUrs are familiar with a lot of this.

But we do know, now, that goprs have known about this for quite a while and still not only voted to acquit but stayed mostly silent while the WH armbends countries and oligarchs all around the world for personal favors. How many dozens of other instances of foreign entanglement might there be?

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3. republicans knew this

And still refused to convict him. Republicans will pay dearly this election for their being complicit with trump, and all the corruption going on with russia and putin. All the republicans will be exposed who took money, and worse worked for putin protecting trump. trumps lackey's should be scared , and all his advisors .