CNN: Trump Briefed On Claims Russian Actors Have Compromising Info On Him
By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published JANUARY 10, 2017, 5:47 PM EDT
The country’s senior intelligence officials last week provided Donald Trump and President Barack Obama with a document containing allegations that Russian operatives have “compromising personal and financial information” about the President-elect, CNN reported Tuesday.
The report cited multiple anonymous U.S. officials with “direct knowledge” of the briefings given to Trump and Obama about the intelligence community’s report on Russian interference in the U.S. election, which concluded the intent of those Russian actors was to help Trump win the White House.
The new allegations were contained in a “two-page” annex that was not included in the full intelligence community report released to the public in declassified form last week. By CNN's description, the document was primarily a synopsis of memos “compiled by a former British intelligence officer whose past work U.S. intelligence officials consider credible.”
CNN reported that the addendum also contained allegations that there was a “continuing exchange of information during the campaign from Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government.”
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