It’s been nearly two years since Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel to lead an investigation into Russian collusion in the 2016 election. Now, Washington and the world await his report, which is expected to be filed this week.
Even if special counsel Robert S. Mueller III discloses no new bombshells in his report to the Justice Department, he has already produced an extraordinary public record. appears close to turning in his final report after a historic investigation that initially sought to determine if President Trump or his advisors had illegal dealings with Russia during the 2016 campaign, but ultimately expanded far beyond that.
They include Michael Flynn, his former national security advisor; Paul Manafort, his former campaign chairman; Richard Gates, his deputy campaign chairman; and Michael Cohen, his former personal lawyer and a senior executive in the Trump Organization. The Russian group"spread distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general" by discouraging African Americans from voting, by motivating conservatives wary of Trump, and other tactics.
At one point, supervisors criticized an employee for running a Facebook group called Secured Borders that had a “low number of posts dedicated to criticizing Hillary Clinton” and ordered him to “intensify” such critiques, the indictment alleged.Russian operatives even staged political rallies while posing as Americans. For one, they paid a U.S.
The GRU soon began posting the stolen data on a website it created, DCLeaks, and through a fake Romanian hacker known as Guccifer 2.0. That June, the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy group reached out to Guccifer 2.0. Stone was charged in January 2019 with several crimes including lying about his conversations involving WikiLeaks. He has pleaded not guilty.All that year, Trump’s aides and associates met or communicated with Russian diplomats, officials and operatives, and expressed eagerness for their assistance.During a visit to Italy in March 2016, the low-level aide met Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor.
Separately, Cohen, Trump’s personal lawyer, reached out to one of Putin’s top aides in an effort to secure a hugely lucrative business deal, a Trump Tower in Moscow. The effort continued until June 2016, after Trump had effectively locked up the Republican nomination, court records show.
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