26/50 A Russian military intelligence officer bragged in May 2016 that his organization would take revenge on Hillary Clinton on behalf of Mr. Putin (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 227).
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35/50 Throughout 2016, Russian journalists were instructed to portray Mr. Trump positively and Hillary Clinton negatively (
#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 218).Show this thread
36/50 In June 2016 the leaders of the Trump campaign, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump, Jr., and Paul Manafort met with Russians in Trump Tower as part of, as the broker of the meeting called it, "the Russian government's support for Trump" (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 261).
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37/50 Mr. Trump's campaign manager Paul Manafort resigned in August 2016 after news broke that he had received $12.7 million in cash from a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician. Mr. Manafort was later convicted of crimes (
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38/50 When Mr. Trump seemed to be in trouble when a tape of his advocacy of sexual assault was published on 7 October 2016, emails stolen by Russia were released to change the subject (
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39/50 Mr. Trump personally encouraged his followers to explore the emails that Russia had stolen in tweets of 31 October and 4 November 2016 (
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40/50 In the months between Mr. Trump's nomination as the Republican candidate and the election, anonymous limited liability ("offshore") companies furiously purchased his properties (
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41/50 After Mr. Trump was accorded the victory in the presidential election in November 2016, he was given a standing ovation in the Russian parliament (
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42/50 After Trump was accorded the victory in the presidential election, he called Mr. Putin to be congratulated (
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43/50 In December 2016, before the inauguration, Michael Flynn illegally met with Russian officials to discuss Russia-friendly policy. One of his aides explained: "Russia has just thrown the U.S.A. elections to" Mr. Trump (
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44/50 After Mr. Trump's victory, the leading man of the Russian media, Dmitry Kiselev, celebrated the end of human rights and democracy as US policy (
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45/50 In May 2017, Mr. Trump fired James Comey for taking part in an investigation of Russia's cyberwar against the United States, and then bragged about doing so to Russian officials in the Oval Office (
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46/50 In June 2017, Mr. Putin essentially admitted that Russia had intervened in the election, saying that he had never denied that "Russian volunteers" had carried out a cyberwar on behalf of Mr. Trump (
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47/50 In June 2017, Mr. Trump ordered the firing of Robert Mueller, who had been tasked to carry out an investigation of Russian interference. The White House Counsel refused to carry out the order. Russia then began a campaign to slander Mr. Mueller (
#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 246).Show this thread
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