Inside Trump's years-long campaign to stymie the Russia investigation

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For more than two years, Trump tried to pressure law enforcement officials, back-channel to witnesses and deter inquiries into his murky relationship with Russia.

In the summer of 2016, not long after WikiLeaks began releasing damaging material hacked by the Russian government from the servers of the Democratic National Committee, candidate Donald Trump was traveling to an airport with campaign aide Rick Gates. Trump got off a phone call and told Gates more material would be coming.

By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. Three months later, in October, WikiLeaks released emails hacked from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta. Days before Trump’s inauguration, news leaked of Flynn’s calls with the Russian ambassador, and Flynn, the incoming national security adviser, instructed his deputy, K.T. McFarland, to deny the story to the Washington Post, which she did, even though she knew her denial was false.

Then, in mid-February, as the FBI investigated whether Flynn had lied to its agents, Trump fired his national security advisor. At the lunch, Trump repeatedly implored Christie to reach out to Comey and tell the FBI director that Trump really likes him. “Tell him he’s part of the team,” Trump said. Christie ignored the request.

 

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Nothing like being upset by a lie

Oh ffs. Stop. It’s over.

*The investigation into Trump’s alleged treasonous collusion with Russia that prosecutors already knew didn’t happen but were sitting around for 18 months hoping to catch him in a process crime. I’m glad the media’s credibility is burning to the ground. You all deserve it.

Obstruction!

Spin job

Is there really a charge for Obstruction of the Miscarriage of Justice? DelusionalDems

The one that found THERE WAS NO CRIME which of course HE KNEW? NoCollusionNoObstruction

People need to remember the Mueller did not add the Intelligence & Counterintelligence information that Mueller found So there is a whole other report that Mueller's team prepared for Congress All of this information is going 2B give by the Justice department they cant stop it

A fish rots from the head. Trump is the head of the GOP. End of story.

FAKENEWS

stymie- OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

Your propaganda is so comical

...he never stymied anything. fakenews again.

Move on folks...

Regardless of the interpretations of the redacted report, or the biased interpretations of those in power (both sides) these are not the actions nor the words of an innocent man.

This is why we call you bullshitico.

He looks like a kid, looking out through his bedroom door, listening to mom and dad discuss how to tell him about his dead dog.

Lord, give it a rest already!

Proven to be a hoax

The GLOBALIST shills in the so-called Mainstream Media are doubling down on there disinformation campaign & REAL conspiracy theories. This is not going to end well for you, Politico.

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