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The special counsel did not find any of the contacts between Trump associates and Russians constituted a crime. Mueller said his “investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.” There were, Mueller wrote, “numerous links” between individuals tied to the Russian government and people associated with Trump. The special counsel said the communications consisted of business contacts, offers to assist the campaign, invitations for Trump and Putin to meet and for campaign aides to meet with Russian government officials, and policy proposals to improve U.S.-Russia relations.
But investigators laid out intriguing new details about those incidents — and also identified moments of interaction previously unknown publicly. “In some instances, the campaign was receptive to the offer, while in other instances, the campaign officials shied away,” Mueller wrote. Trump’s assistant Rhona Graff declined the invitation but received a follow-up email from Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko in March 2016 renewing the invitation, according to the report — perhaps the only instance during the campaign of a Russian government official directly reaching out to Trump.
Mueller wrote that investigators did not locate evidence that Foresman reached Trump. The banker told prosecutors that he was merely trying to burnish his credentials with the campaign and not establish a Russian back channel to Trump. Campaign contacts The Russians also sought to forge relationships with people involved directly in Trump’s campaign — particularly through aides with their own connections to Russia.
Immediately upon joining the Trump campaign in March 2016, Manafort instructed deputy Rick Gates to send memos announcing his appointment to four “friends” with Russia connections: three Ukrainian business titans and one Russian, the Putin ally Oleg Deripaska, the report said.
They welcomed help. And did not alert the FBI.
Traitor
trump obviously doesn’t want anyone taking notes as he doesn’t want his conversations memorialized. Congress must bring in the interpreter of the trump-Putin Helsinki meeting.
gtconway3d Trump is Putins puppet
Fahrenthold guilty of intriguery. pretty harsh there WaPo. ooooh. aaaaah
Fahrenthold And the Russians say . . .
Fahrenthold Hmm, continuing with the soft touch headlines. Not at all what I expected of the Post.
Fahrenthold Really? Intrigued? TrumpObstructed TrumpColluded TrumpBarrLies lead you to “INTRIGUED?”
Look at this picture the America president is standing on the right
gtconway3d hmm, they were a little more than “intrigued”
gtconway3d If Obama had done what trump has, he would have been dragged out of the whitehouse and prosecuted immediately.
gtconway3d Porky Pig is mighty salty today. Lol!!
But if Putin promised Trump he would pass inspection Donald Trump has lost his soul today.
Was there collusion? 100 per cent guaranteed. Was there enough evidence to convict? Nearly but not quite. So does this mean Trump is 'completely exonerated?' NO 'EFFING WAY!
🤣🍿🤣ROFL!
Hello America and Americans. One of these guys is a Foreign Agent, a money launderer, a female assaulter, a blackmailer and a Corrupt, Criminal Enterprise Purveyor. Hint, not the Russian.
WAPO still lying. Owners shall live to regret their evil lying to the public. Everyone needs to stock up on popcorn and your favorite beverages, because the show is about to begin. Down, Down, DOWN they shall go!
But no collusion ,never mind there’s always journalism to fall back on , if you remember that far back .
Try another headline. You sound like the press secretary.
Dishonest journalism
Just stop. You are clowns at this point.
Bezos paints a portrait of a self indulgent pervert. Who takes naked selfies and then sends them as text messages? Oh yes, Dangerous Anthony Wiener and Jeff Bezos. Hit piece journalism.
Hey WP...President Trump Won Because He Had The Best Platform, He Has Proven Us Right. He Won Legitimately. STOPtheResistance
No Collusion No Obstruction
THE STEELE DOSSIER.....
You have a bad painter then. Still with the bs. The report showed u misled and pushed onto your viewers the collusion hoax, never vetted most stories and out right lie at times & who knows why. Maybe u were duped or u were just so wanting it to be true you manufactured stories.
Rejected br Trump
Wapo be like
The real colluders have always been liberal activist posing as journalist working with their allies the TheDemocrats
If you’re really interested in what obstruction of justice looks like then check out Hillary’s team deleting those thousands of emails and electronically wiping their servers clean.
The real colluders has always been liberal activist posing as the journalist / media working with their allies the TheDemocrats
As opposed to a Washpost OBSESSED with Non Existent Russian Collusion
LOL
Intrigued? Mueller clearly states that the campaign worked with the Russians. Why is WP covering for Trump?
Donald the Russian Bot
Still want to know what Putin has on Trump. Or is it really as simple as Trump's greed?
And impeachable levels of obstruction of justice. Congress must interview both Mueller and Trump under oath before the American people. For the sake of the country, the secrecy & corruption surrounding the report needs to be disinfected with the sunlight of impeachment hearings.
Alternate headline: Mueler Report Shows Washington Post Spread Russian Collusion Lie For Two Years.
The Russians did it again! ZANGIEF!
So what? Obama was President, and knew about it for 8 years, and did nothing.. your outrage is laughable
And one that, despite what we've heard for the past two years, did not collude with Russia. BuriedLede