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THREAD: Aiding and Abetting: What the Trump Campaign Knew About Russia’s Attack (1/13) themoscowproject.org/explainers/aid…
Anonymous Senate staffers are apparently saying their investigation hasn’t found “direct evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.” If that’s true, they’re ignoring lots of evidence that’s already public. (2/13) nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Last month, when Rudy Giuliani was the one trying to move the goalposts, we laid out five clear examples of collusion for him: (3/13) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/five-…
There was the June 9 meeting, when Donald Trump Jr. enthusiastically accepted an offer of dirt on Hillary Clinton that he was told was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.” (4/13) themoscowproject.org/explainers/col…
There was Roger Stone’s alleged backchannel to WikiLeaks—which, according to Mueller’s most recent indictment, was established at the explicit direction of top Trump campaign officials. (5/13) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/the-s…
There was George Papadopoulos, who learned well in advance that Russia had stolen and would be releasing emails through WikiLeaks that the Trump campaign could then weaponize. (6/13) themoscowproject.org/explainers/a-c…
There was Carter Page, the aide U.S. intelligence has repeatedly concluded may be a Russian gent, and who traveled to Moscow during the campaign to meet with high-ranking members of the Russian government. (7/13) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/nunes…
And there was Paul Manafort, who gave private polling data to a man he knew was connected to Russian intel and asked he pass it along to oligarchs with a history of doing the Kremlin’s bidding. (8/13) nytimes.com/2019/01/08/us/…
Lest anybody think Trump somehow kept his nose clean, there are also plenty of articles on how Trump ran the Trump campaign, exerting unusual influence over even its smallest decisions. (9/13) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/trump…
But most of all, there were more than 100 contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia, which continued well after the Trump campaign learned Russia was attacking American democracy. (10/13) themoscowproject.org/explainers/tru…
Not only that, they continued after *the U.S. intelligence community* revealed, both in public and to Trump himself, that Russia was attacking American democracy. (11/13) themoscowproject.org/explainers/aid…
Our new timeline shows how, instead of alerting law enforcement, U.S. intelligence, or the public, Trump took every chance he could to sow doubt about Russian interference, then continued its secret contacts and meetings. (12/13) themoscowproject.org/explainers/aid…
The Trump campaign knew Russia was attacking the 2016 election and chose to aid and abet rather than report that effort. There is only one explanation: collusion. (13/13) themoscowproject.org/explainers/aid…
