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In the course of witness interviews, reviews of document productions, and investigative efforts...
Finding #27: The Republican national security establishment's opposition to candidate Trump created opportunities for two less-experienced individuals with pro-Russia views to serve as campaign advisors: George Papadopoulos and Carter Page.
campaign to fill the vacuum left by more experienced national security specialists who were unwilling to adivise candidate Trump.
Republican Party platform regarding Ukraine resulted in a stronger position against Russia, not a weaker one, and there is no evidence that Paul Manafort was involved.
Donald Trump Jr.: During the course of-the Committee's interview with Trump Jr., a news report from CNN appeared online claiming he was given a pre-release notification of a Wikileaks release of Podesta emails.
concluded at 5:51 p.m
Kavcdadze, and Akhmetshin met for lunch before the Trump Tower meeting. During lunch, there was a discussion regarding the Trump Tower meeting. Veselnitskaya shared an approximately 10-page document in Russian to provide the lunch attendees...
Finding #35: Possible Russian efforts to set up a "back channel" with Trump associates after the election suggest the absence of collusion during the campaign, since the communication associated with collusion would have rendered such a "back channel" unnecessary.
Using a series of intermediaries, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary for America (Clinton campaign) paid a research firm to conduct opposition research on candidate Trump and his ties with Russia.
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As described below, Fusion was hired in spring 2016 by -redacted-who represented the DNC and the Clinton campaign.
Finding #36: Prior to conducting opposition research targeting candidate Trump's business dealings, Fusion GPS conducted research benefitting Russian interests.