What Trump said about “Russian interference”: answers to two main questions

The American media have become aware of US President Donald Trump’s answers to the main questions of the “Russian investigation” of special counsel Robert Mueller.

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The president commented on the meeting of members of his election headquarters with Russian lobbyists in 2016, and information about his team’s connections with Wikileaks. These are the key moments of the investigation of Russia's interference in the US presidential election, writes Air force.

Tramp handed Answers to Muller’s questions in writing a week ago. Until now, it was not known what exactly the Special Prosecutor’s team asked the president and what Trump answered them. The president merely stated that he wrote the answers himself, and that this was very easy for him.

Muller, 2017, investigates the alleged collusion between the Trump electoral headquarters and the Russian authorities during the presidential election of 2016. Trump categorically denies conspiracy charges, calling the investigation a witch hunt.

The White House has not made any statements regarding the authenticity of the information available to American TV channels.

Question # XXUMX: Did Trump know about the negotiations between his headquarters and Wikileaks?

CNN, NBC and ABC found out that the Muller team, in particular, asked Trump what he knew about the connections of his longtime acquaintance and former adviser Roger Stone with Wikileaks. Trump, according to all three TV channels, replied that Stone did not tell him about his contacts with Wikileaks.

At the same time, Stone talked about his connections with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange during the 2016 presidential race of the year.

It was Wikileaks who published the internal correspondence of the US Democratic Party National Committee in 2016 that hit the rating of Hillary Clinton.

American intelligence agencies suspect Russia of organizing a hacker attack on the party’s servers. Mueller is investigating whether Stone knew in advance that Wikileaks had obtained a trove of emails from Democratic Party servers. Now Stone says that he did not know anything about the hacked mailboxes and did not discuss Wikileaks with Trump - their testimony coincides.

The day before, British Guardian columnist Luke Harding reported that another person involved in the Mueller investigation, Trump’s ex-chief of staff Paul Manafort, met with the Wikileaks founder.

According to the publication's unnamed source, Manafort allegedly met with Assange in London, at the Ecuadorian embassy in March 2016. A few months later, the project published letters from the Democratic Party servers. In response, Wikileaks tweeted that it would bet a million dollars and “the head of the Guardian editor-in-chief” that Assange and Manafort had never met.

Luke Harding project representatives called the serial factory.

Harding in his material referred to an internal document of the Ecuadorian intelligence service Senain, which contains a list of people who visited Assange. Among them allegedly are Manafort and several Russian citizens, but who exactly is unknown.

Question # XXUMX: Did Trump know in advance about the meeting of the members of his staff with the Russians at the Trump Tower?

CNN, NBC and ABC also found out what Trump said about the meeting of Manafort, and also his son Donald Trump Jr. and son-in-law Jared Kushner at Trump Tower with Moscow lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in 2016. Trump allegedly stated that he did not know in advance about this meeting.

From the correspondence between Trump Jr. and the intermediary who organized the meeting, it follows that Veselnitskaya brought “dirt on Hillary” to the meeting as part of Russia’s assistance to Trump.

The meeting was hosted by British promoter Bob Goldstone, who worked with singer Emin Agalarov, the son of billionaire Aras Agalarov. At the hearings on the meeting in the Senate in May 2018, Goldstone said that he organized a meeting between Trump’s son and Veselnitskaya on the initiative of Emin Agalarov. He allegedly insisted on it to pass the dirt on Hillary Clinton.

As a result, the Trump team did not receive any compromising material at the meeting, its members claim. The conversation was mainly about foster children from Russia, and this problem did not appear in the election campaign.

“It was very difficult for me to understand what she was saying and why,” Trump Jr. said at the Senate hearing. However, Trump Jr.’s very agreement to meet with the Russians in order to obtain dirt on his father’s rival may be evidence that the Trump team was ready to accept Russian help.

Trump's answers to Muller’s questions coincide with what the president said earlier. The White House did not comment on the publication of Trump's responses, and Special Prosecutor Muller’s office also refrained from commenting.

How the “Russian investigation” began

In 2016, the US intelligence services found out that during the US presidential elections, Russia used multilevel hacking of computer systems, theft of documents and fake publications to influence the voting results so that Trump won.

Russia categorically denies all allegations of interference. President Vladimir Putin called them invented to delegitimize President Trump.

The council, which is chaired by Muller, is trying to determine who was involved in the proposed Russian campaign. Müller and his team found that people from Trump's inner circle had meetings with Russian officials and that information about some of the meetings was hidden.

Charges have already been brought against some of Trump's entourage: Paul Manafor, ex-advisers Rick Gates and George Papadopoulos, former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

In July of this year, the office of Special Prosecutor Robert Muller launched new accusations in the investigation of Russian interference in the American elections against 12 officers of two divisions of the GRU. Russians are accused of hacking computer systems, stealing documents and personal data.

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