Saturday, March 23, 2019
穆勒報告出籠，川普競選團隊勾結俄羅斯間諜被捉姦在床！
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下面是我在推特上就通俄門事件的部分評論。
國會要求川普的一些競選助手遞交電子郵件，班農和伊萬卡頓時嚇尿了。班農遞交了幾千頁的相關文件。班農是否將「法制基金」的文件也上交給國會去調查了？
The Mueller report is out — here's everyone who has been charged and convicted in the Russia probe so far
https://www.businessinsider.com/who-has-been-charged-in-russia-investigation-mueller-trump-2017-12
Mueller has submitted his final report — here are all the known contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian government-linked people or entities
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-russia-government-contact-timeline-2018-7
穆勒的報告應該很快就會遞交給司法部長。
且不說穆勒報告的內容，單隻看穆勒調查過程中已經起訴的人：
Paul Manafort馬納福特，川普競選委員會主席
Rick Gates，馬納福特的副手，川普競選委員會副主席
科恩：擔任川普私人律師12年
George Papadopoulos川普競選顧問
Roger Stone 羅傑·斯通， 川普的競選顧問
Michael Flynn川普的首任國家安全顧問，是基辛格在尼克松曾經擔任的角色。
上面的這些人都是川普競選團隊的核心成員，除了斯通正在等待審判外，其他人都已經承認有罪甚至已經判刑。
另外，包括川普的大兒子小川普，女婿庫什納等人都有確鑿證據在川普競選期間以各種方式同俄羅斯間諜有各種聯繫。
川普團隊的前十為核心成員，至少有八人同俄羅斯間諜私下勾結。
這些人如果是沒有大老闆的同意甚至授意，會私自同俄羅斯間諜勾結嗎？如果有一或二人私下勾結外國間諜，或許有可能。
但是，川普競選團隊的核心成員幾乎有八成同俄羅斯間諜暗地裡勾結，狼狽為奸，沒有大老闆的授意和統一指揮，幾乎就是不可能發生的事件。
上述被起訴的或判刑的人，幾乎都有一條罪狀是撒謊，他們都拚命掩蓋他們同俄羅斯間諜的各種聯繫。
他們為什麼要拚命掩蓋同俄羅斯人的聯繫？這必定是有見不得人的勾當，而且必定是曾經有攻守同盟，要統一口徑地掩蓋同俄羅斯人的聯繫和各種交易，他們都明知道這是叛國罪。
這些人冒著叛國罪的風險，去同俄羅斯間諜秘密勾結，而得到的結果就是為了幫助川普成功當上總統，所承擔的風險則是被判刑入獄。有哪個人會愚蠢到這種程度去干這種蠢事嗎？除非是受到川普的指使並且得到川普的某種承諾才會去干這種有巨大風險的賣國勾當。
川粉支持川普的理由之一是川普高智商，會作生意。可一張照片就能證明川普的智商歸零了！
前天，3月21日，川普舉著這張照片，向記者反覆說，上面的紅點標的是恐怖組織ISIS在敘利亞的佔領區域。下面的圖形表示ISIS被統統消滅。
川普將剿滅ISIS完全歸功於自己。
可是，剿滅ISIS同川普有一毛錢關係嗎？
剿滅ISIS的美軍都是奧巴馬總統就任期間派去的，川普唯一做的就是反覆不斷地指責奧巴馬總統派遣這些美軍，以及下令撤回這些美軍。
川普的這種伎倆，就如同將世界上所有死亡的人都歸功於他川普一樣地弱智，將希特勒、薩達姆、卡扎菲的死亡都說成是他川普派美軍予以消滅的同樣地顛倒是非、貪天功為己有！真是滑天下之大稽！
3月20日，川普在白宮有又一次攻擊特別檢察官穆勒，聲稱他川普獲得了很多選票，而穆勒不曾獲得一張選票，一個沒獲得過選票的人居然來調查活動上千萬選票的人。
川普還不如乾脆說，所有的足球、籃球裁判都不曾進過一個球，有什麼權力對場上球員給紅牌，將參賽隊員罰下場啊？
穆勒調查川普團隊通俄門的報告終於完成了。可是，尚未看到穆勒報告之前，一些川粉就開始歡呼勝利了，說川普又贏了。
陸東自稱是當今世界最最超前的預言家、陰謀家，居然就閉著眼睛宣布川普勝利了。陸東能將自己混成一個鐵桿郭粉加鐵桿川粉，那就是雙倍的鐵桿腦殘嘛。
現在人們爭論的焦點是通俄門事件究竟是否存在。
穆勒報告中已經匯總了7名川普競選團隊重要成員被起訴、被判刑，分別是上面列出的科恩、馬納福特、菲林、斯通、Gates、Papadopoulos等人，這些人都被坐實秘密勾結俄羅斯間諜來干涉美國大選，幫助川普成功競選總統。他們還都有一條罪名：撒謊！
他們為什麼撒謊？撒了哪些謊？
他們首先是否認同俄羅斯間諜有聯繫，這是被證明撒謊。
其實，他們最最主要的撒謊是拒不講出受誰指使去勾結俄羅斯間諜。
另外，川普的兒子、女婿庫什納都在川普大廈同俄羅斯間諜有秘密會晤。科恩在國會作證時已經交待了川普兒子同川普低聲耳語：一切都安排好了。
川普當時就對他兒子說：隨時向我彙報。
川普競選團隊中除了被起訴的七人外，其他的重要成員就是川普、彭斯、班農、康維、庫什納、小川普、伊萬卡。在這14人中，只有彭斯和康維不曾同俄羅斯間諜勾結，能夠坐實同俄羅斯間諜有勾結的有9人，占川普團隊核心成員的6成。
另外，穆勒已經起訴的俄羅斯方面同川普團隊聯絡的間諜或滲透美國大選的俄羅斯黑客有25人，俄羅斯公司三家。
捉賊捉雙。穆勒調查的通俄門事件，已經抓捕的川普團隊成員7人，俄羅斯方面多達30人，這豈止是捉賊捉雙，簡直就是捉姦在床了嘛！
就僅僅根據穆勒已經起訴的37人和公司，說川普團隊串通俄羅斯間諜干預美國大選，這是板上釘釘，任何人都無法否認的了。
現在的問題就是：
1. 那些俄羅斯間諜是受誰指使？普廷是否直接給這些間諜下令？
2. 川普團隊的那些被起訴、被判刑的人，究竟是受誰指使去勾結俄羅斯間諜？
3. 他們為何要撒謊？要掩蓋的真相是什麼？
4. 川普團隊同俄羅斯間諜勾結的目的是什麼？最後使誰受益？
5. 今後是否要起訴川普的兒子小川普以及女婿庫什納？
6. 以何種方式追究川普和普京的責任？
7. 川普是否是服務於俄羅斯的利益？
8. 今後如何防範外國間諜干涉美國大選？
這些問題都是不言自明的。
劉剛
2019年3月23日
川普競選委員會主席馬納福特
U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives for a hearing at U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S., November 2, 2017.
馬納福特（Paul Manafort），川普競選委員會主席。2016年4月，馬納福特同俄羅斯及烏克蘭雙料間諜康斯坦丁·基里姆尼克（Konstantin Kilimnik）多次共享俄羅斯的間諜信息和數據。
April 2016: Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort shares polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian-Ukrainian political operative.
Konstantin Kilimnk, a political operative and former member of Russian intelligence, had been a long-time associate of Manafort, who worked for several years in Ukraine and Eastern Europe as a political consultant and financier.
According to a court filing submitted by Manafort's lawyers, Manafort shared campaign polling data with Kilimnik. The New York Times reported the data was then passed onto Ukrainian oligarchs Serhiy Lyovochkin and Rinat Akhmetov, who reportedly owed Manafort money.
Source:New York Times
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April 2016: Manafort and Kilimnik discuss briefing Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska on the campaign's operations
Manafort inquired if Russian billionaire oligarch Oleg Deripaska knew about Manafort joining the campaign, to which Kilimnik replied, "absolutely." Manafort then asked, "How do we use to get to whole?"
The emails between Manafort and Kilimnik suggest that Manafort sought to take advantage of the influence he had from his role on Trump's campaign, which was unpaid, to make up for a significant financial debt he owed to Deripaska.
Deripaska gave Manafort almost $19 million dollars in 2008 for use of the purchase of a Ukrainian company, but the investment fell through and their relationship went south. It was later revealed in June 2018 that Manafort owed Deripaska another $10 million on top of the previously known $19 million.
Sources:Business Insider,The Atlantic,
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July 7, 2016: Manafort offers "private briefings" on the campaign to the Kremlin-linked oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
The Washington Post reported in September 2017 that Paul Manafort had, over a period of months, corresponded with Kilmnik on the subject of giving "private briefings" on the Trump campaign to Deripaska, the oligarch to whom Manafort owed tens of millions of dollars.
The emails, which were subsequently turned over to both Special Counsel Mueller's office and to congressional investigators, don't show proof that Deripaska was made aware of the offer or that any private meetings or briefings actually occurred.
Manafort was sentenced to a total of seven and a half years in federal prison earlier this month after facing two multi-count federal indictments charging him with numerous crimes related to fraud and obstruction of justice.
Neither set of charges were explicitly related to the Trump's campaign's communications with Russia, and revolve mostly around Manafort's decades of working on behalf of Eastern European governments.
Manafort went to trial and was convicted on 8 charges of tax and bank fraud in the Eastern District of Virginia in August 2018. He entered into a plea agreement with Mueller ahead of his second trial - but the deal fell apart when Mueller accused Manafort of lying in his conversations with investigators.
Source:Business Insider, Washington Post,Business Insider
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August 2016: Manafort and Kilimnik have more meetings.
Manafort and Kilimnik agreed to meet in New York twice, and they reportedly did so in early August. The meeting became a subject of interest to investigators, but Kilimnik maintained it was to discuss private matters and had nothing to do with politics or the campaign.
On August 14th, The New York Times published a story revealing Manafort had been secretly paid millions of dollars off the books by Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovych's party.
Soon after, the Associated Press reported that Manafort's political consulting firm had carried out lobbying on behalf of Yanukovych's party in the US, but hadn't registered as a foreign agent with the State Department.
Manafort formally resigned from the Trump campaign on August 19th. His close aide and deputy Rick Gates remained on staff.
Sources: Associated Press, New York Times,Washington Post
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Michael Flynn川普的首任國家安全顧問，是基辛格在尼克松曾經擔任的角色。
December 22, 2016: Gen. Michael Flynn, a national security advisor on Trump's campaign, reached out to Kislyak regarding a vote at the UN.
An indictment filed by Mueller's office in December 2017 revealed that Flynn contacted Kislyak requesting that Russia "vote against or delay" against a UN resolution regarding Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory.
Flynn struck a plea deal with Mueller to plead guilty on one count of making false statements to the FBI (regarding his communications with Russia) in exchange for cooperation with the special counsel investigation.
Flynn has cooperated with the Mueller probe since December 2017, and has not yet been sentenced. In a December 2018 sentencing memo, Mueller's team recommended a shorter sentence for Flynn, saying he had met with the special counsel's office 19 times and provided early — and invaluable — assistance.
The memo said Flynn "provided firsthand information about the content and interactions between [Trump's] transition team and Russian government officials."
Sources: Washington Post,Business Insider
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December 29, 2016: Flynn and Kislyak continue to communicate on the subject of US sanctions on Russia.
Flynn and Kislyak called eachother multiple times on December 29th, the day President Obama announced sanctions against Russia and the expulsion of Russian intelligence operatives from the US in response to Russian hacking and interference in the 2016 election.
The calls "occurred between the time the Russian embassy was told about U.S. sanctions and the announcement by Russian President Vladimir Putin that he had decided against reprisals," according to Reuters.
The charges filed against Flynn by the special counsel's office say that Kislyak contacted Flynn on December 31st to inform him that the Kremlin had decided not to impose retaliatory sanctions against the US "at the Trump team's request."
Sources: The Washington Post,Reuters, The New York Times
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科恩：擔任川普私人律師12年
November 2015: Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen reaches out to Russian weight-lifter Dmitry Klokov in an attempt to secure a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
Ivanka Trump, daughter of President Donald Trump, reportedly first put Cohen and Klokov in contact, according to emails Buzzfeed News reviewed.
In one email, Klokov claimed "he could arrange a meeting between Donald Trump and Putin to help pave the way for the tower."
Cohen then refused the offer, telling Klokov there was an existing agreement to build a Trump Tower between Russia and the Trump Organization.
The nature of Klokov's relationship to Putin is unclear, but he and Cohen exchanged several emails in the fall of 2015.
In December 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty in the special counsel probe for lying about the timing during which the Trump Organization pursued the Trump Tower deal to the House Intelligence Committee in his 2017 congressional testimony.
Mueller's sentencing memo said that "in or around November 2015, Cohen received the contact information for, and spoke with, a Russian national who claimed to be a "trusted person" in the Russian Federation who could offer the campaign "political synergy" and "synergy on a government level," with the Russian national believed to be Klokov.
Source: BuzzFeed, Business Insider
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January 2016: Cohen reaches out to Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov asking about the Trump Tower deal.
The Kremlin has since confirmed that they received Cohen's email, but did not reply. Cohen then called Peskov's assistant on or around Jan. 20, describing to her his position at the Trump Organization and how the Kremlin could help arrange the Trump Tower deal.
Cohen "requested assistance in moving the project forward, both in securing land to build the proposed tower and financing the construction," prosecutors say.
The Trump Tower deal is coming under renewed scrutiny in light of a recent bombshell Buzzfeed News report claiming that Trump personally directed Cohen to lie about the deal in his September 2017 testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Sources: Washington Post,US Department of Justice,Buzzfeed News
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January 9, 2017: Michael Cohen met with a Russian oligarch in Trump Tower.
Cohen and Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian billionaire with ties to the Kremlin, talked about "a mutual desire to strengthen Russia's relations with the United States under President Trump," according to the New York Times.
Andrew Intrater, an American business associate of Vekselberg's who attended the meeting, gave Cohen a $1 million contract for his consulting services shortly after the inauguration.
Source:New York Times
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瑞克·蓋茨（Rick Gates），川普競選委員會副主席
September 2016: Trump campaign aide Rick Gates makes contact with an unidentified person with ties to Russian intelligence.
A court filing released in March 2018 from special counsel Mueller's office revealed that Rick Gates — Manafort's former deputy — had contacts with an unidentified person connected to Russian intelligence while Gates worked on the Trump campaign.
Those contacts took place during September and October of 2016, according to the special counsel's office.
Gates, along with Manafort, was indicted by a grand jury on 12 counts of conspiracy, money laundering, making false statements to investigators, and failing to register as a foreign agent in October 2017.
In February 2018, Gates made an agreement to plead guilty to one count of making false statements and one count of conspiracy against the United States in exchange for cooperating with Mueller's investigation.
Sources:CNN,Business Insider
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帕帕多普洛斯（George Papadopoulos）, 川普競選顧問。在2016年3月24日，帕帕多普洛斯和米夫蘇德在倫敦同俄羅斯女諜見面商討安排川普競選團隊同俄羅斯人見面開會的相關事宜。2016年4月18日，通過米夫蘇德的引薦，帕帕多普洛斯同俄羅斯外事委員會主席Ivan Timofeev私下見面，此後，雙方多次通過電子郵件和網路視頻商討如何安排川普競選團隊同俄羅斯政府機構建立聯繫。
2016年4月26日，在倫敦見面時，米夫蘇德告知帕帕多普洛斯，俄羅斯間諜機構已經盜取了關於希拉里的醜聞，聲稱掌握了數千關於希拉里的電子郵件。這比維基解密泄漏希拉里團隊的電子郵件要早整整三個月！
Papadopoulos, 29, joined the Trump campaign as an unpaid adviser in March 2016.
But from his low-level position, Papadopoulos took on an outsize role in trying to facilitate communications and set up meetings between the Trump campaign and Russia.
One of his main contacts was Joseph Mifsud, the director of the London Academy of Diplomacy, a for-profit college program that was later shut down. Mifsud boasted of having "substantial connections to Russian officials," according to court documents.
Despite having scant credentials or expertise on Russia, Mifsud became active in elite Russian political circles after one of his interns, a 24-year-old Russian woman, introduced him to several high-level diplomats and scholars, The New York Times reported.
Mifsud even gained admission into the prestigious Valdai Discussion Club, a group of foreign policy scholars who host an annual meeting with Putin.
Sources: The New York Times, Lawfare, Washington Post
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April 18, 2016: Mifsud introduced Papadopoulos over email to Ivan Timofeev, a Director at the Kremlin-linked Russian International Affairs Council who claimed to have ties to Russia's foreign ministry.
Papadopoulos and Timofeev exchanged several emails during that period and had at least two Skype conversations, discussing the logistics of setting up a meeting between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
Sources: The New York Times, US District Court for the District of Columbia
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April 26, 2016: During a meeting in London, Mifsud told Papadopoulos that the Russians had "dirt" on Hillary Clinton.
In the meeting, Mifsud reportedly claimed the "dirt" on Clinton came in the form of "thousands of emails."
The April meeting took place three months before Wikileaks released approximately 20,000 emails hacked from the server of the Democratic National Committee, which revealed how DNC staffers sought to secure the nomination of Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders.
The next month, Papadopoulos told Australian intelligence official Alexander Downer about the Clinton emails over drinks at a swanky London bar. Downer then tipped off US authorities to the conversation, sparking the initial FBI investigation into the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia.
In December 2017, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI about his conversations with Mifsud. He served 14 days in prison in November 2018.
Source: The New York Times
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Ten days after Papadopoulos and Mifsud first made contact in Italy, the two met again — this time with a Russian woman who Papadopoulos described as "Putin's niece" in an email to Trump campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis.
The woman, later identified as Olga Polonskaya, has no relation to Putin.
In April, Papadopoulos and Polonskaya exchanged several emails discussing the possibility of the Trump campaign making a foreign policy trip to Russia.
"We are all very excited by the possibility of a good relationship with Mr. Trump. The Russian Federation would love to welcome him once his candidature would be officially announced," Polonskaya wrote in one email.
In October 2017, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI regarding his contacts with Russian-linked people, and became a cooperating witness in the Mueller probe.
Sources: The New York Times, US District Court for the District of Columbia
April 29-30, 2016: George Papadopoulos continues to communicate with Mifsud and Polonskaya.
On the 29th, he emailed Polonskaya again about a potential trip to Russia. On the 30th, he reached out to Mifsud to thank him "for his 'critical help' in arranging a meeting between the Campaign and the Russian government."
Source:US Department of Justice
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Timofeev emailed Papadopoulos again on May 8th to inquire about putting him in contact with the US desk at the MFA.
In the following weeks, Timofeev and Papadopoulos had at least one Skype call where Timofeev reported a "good reaction" to the idea of a visit from his colleagues in the foreign affairs ministry.
In a May 13th email to Papadopoulos, Mifsud wrote, "we will continue to liaise through you with the Russian counterparts in terms of what is needed for a high level meeting of Mr. Trump with the Russian federation."
Sources:US Department of Justice
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May 4, 2016: Timofeev emails Papadopoulos claiming his colleagues in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) were "open to cooperation."
Timofeev emailed Papadopoulos again on May 8th to inquire about putting him in contact with the US desk at the MFA.
In the following weeks, Timofeev and Papadopoulos had at least one Skype call where Timofeev reported a "good reaction" to the idea of a visit from his colleagues in the foreign affairs ministry.
In a May 13th email to Papadopoulos, Mifsud wrote, "we will continue to liaise through you with the Russian counterparts in terms of what is needed for a high level meeting of Mr. Trump with the Russian federation."
Sources:US Department of Justice
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斯通同俄羅斯及維基解密的勾結
羅傑·斯通（Roger Stone）
Early May 2016: Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone meets with a Russian offering him dirt on Hillary Clinton in exchange for $2 million. He declines.
The 2016 meeting between Stone and the Russian, Henry Greenberg, was not disclosed to congressional investigators and unknown until the Washington Post reported on it in June of 2018.
Stone reportedly told Greenberg that Trump "doesn't pay for anything."
In text messages between Stone and Trump campaign communications official Michael Caputo, Stone said Greenberg "wants big &$ for the info--waste of time."
Greenberg, who has also used the last name Oknyansky, has previously worked as an FBI informant but was not doing so at the time of the meeting.
Sources: Washington Post
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August 14, 2016: Roger Stone direct messages Guccifer 2.0, a persona created by Russian intelligence who claimed responsibility for the hack of the DNC's emails, on Twitter.
"Glad to see you are re-instated," Stone wrote to Guccifer after a previous suspension of his Twitter account had been lifted.
After the Washington Post reported that the DNC was hacked by Russian operatives, Stone responded by writing in Breitbart in July 2016 claiming that Guccifer, "a lone hacker," and not the Russian government carried out the hacking.
Over the following weeks, Stone and Guccifer exchanged several messages on Twitter in which Guccifer expressed admiration for Stone and offered to assist the Trump campaign.
"please tell me if i can help u anyhow," Guccifer wrote in one message.
US intelligence officials had long suspected that Guccifer was either a real person linked to Russian intelligence or a fake persona they had created. In March of 2018, that suspicion was confirmed when Guccifer accidentally revealed himself to be Russian security officer.
In July 2018, the Russian intelligence officers who had created the Guccifer profile were charged by the Special Counsel for conspiracy against the United States, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering in relation to the hacks of the DNC, DCCC, and Clinton campaign.
Sources: Business Insider,JustSecurity, Business Insider ,ABC
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September 9, 2016: Guccifer 2.0 contacts Stone again with data obtained through hacking.
Guccifer 2.0 direct messaged Stone a link to Florida political operative's blog, which published Florida voter turnout data obtained by Guccifer in a hack of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
Stone replied, deeming the information "pretty standard."
Source:Wall Street Journal, Business Insider
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October 13, 2016: Stone directly messages WikiLeaks over Twitter. They had previously communicated only through an intermediary.
Stone messaged WikiLeaks confronting them with his "defense of Assange and the organization" on Twitter after WikiLeaks put out a statement claiming to have never spoken with Stone.
Stone previously testified under oath before Congress in September 2016 that he had communicated with WikiLeaks through intermediaries, later revealed to be radio host Randy Credico and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi.
After asking Stone not to publicly affiliate himself with Wikileaks, Stone told them to "remember who their friends were."
Stone, who has worked as a political consultant for Trump since the 1980s, was arrested and charged with one count of obstruction of justice, five counts of false statements, and one count of witness tampering, in January. He plans to plead not guilty.
The indictment charging Stone alleges that Stone made "multiple false statements to [the House Intelligence Committee] about his interactions regarding Organization 1, and falsely denied possessing records that contained evidence of these interactions" in 2017 testimony. Organization 1 is believed to be WikiLeaks.
Not only is making false statements to Congress a crime, but the indictment said that Stone's misleading testimony deliberated obstructed ongoing investigations by the FBI, House Intelligence Committee, and Senate Intelligence Committee.
Source: The Washington Post, The Atlantic
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川普團隊其他成員同俄羅斯的秘密勾結：
賽辛斯（川普競選顧問、後來擔任司法部長）同俄羅斯的秘密勾結
April 27, 2016: Then-campaign advisors Jeff Sessions and Jared Kushner met with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak at a reception before Trump gave a speech on foreign policy at the Mayflower Hotel.
In the speech, which was edited by Papalodopous, Trump vowed to improve relations with Russia by collaborating on "shared interests."
Ambassador Kislyak said he and Sessions discussed policy matters related to Russia, which Sessions denied. US intelligence officials later described them as having had a "substantive conversation."
After the event, Papadopoulos emailed then-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski saying "Putin wants to host the Trump team when the time is right."
Source: Washington Post
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July 18-20, 2016: Jeff Sessions, J.D. Gordon, and Carter Page all spoke to Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
Trump campaign foreign policy advisors J.D. Gordon and Carter Page told congressional investigators they met Kislyak at an RNC event attended by other diplomats.
Gordon said his interaction with Kislyak wasn't lengthy, but Page told congressional investigators that when he spoke to Kislyak, the subject of American sanctions on Russia "may have briefly come up in some context."
Sessions, who spoke with Kislyak after speaking at a private luncheon, originally did not disclose the meeting to congressional investigators.
Just a day after Trump became the Republican nominee for President, Wikileaks released over 20,000 emails obtained through the hacking of the Democratic National Committee by Russia.
Source:Washington Post,Business Insider
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September 8, 2016: Sessions met with Ambassador Kislyak in his Washington, DC Senate office.
Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the US. Cliff Owen/AP
Sessions said the meeting, which was not originally disclosed during his January 2017 confirmation hearing, was also attended by two or three of his staffers. The Washington Post broke the story two months after the hearing.
In March of 2017, Sessions said they "listened to the ambassador and what his concerns might be," and discussed issues such as terrorism, travel to Russia, and Ukraine in the September 2016 meeting.
"I don't recall any specific political discussions," Sessions remarked.
When Sessions' previously undisclosed contacts with Russians were revealed, several top democrats called on him to resign, accusing him of perjury. Sessions later recused himself altogether from presiding over the Russia investigation, much to Trump's chagrin.
Source:Business Insider,Washington Post
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川普兒子小川普同俄羅斯的秘密勾結
Donald Trump Jr. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Alexander Torshin, a former Russian senator from Putin's party and a former senior official at Russia's central bank told Bloomberg he had dinner with Donald Trump Jr., the president's son, at the annual convention for the National Rifle Association.
The White House confirmed they had met, but denied that they dined together. Torshin also reportedly tried to meet with Trump, an offer turned down by Jared Kushner.
Torshin is now accused of directing an effort to infiltrate American conservative organizations including the National Rifle Association and the National Prayer Breakfast to promote Russian interests, traveling everywhere from Alaska to Tennessee in his efforts.
He has since been sanctioned from the US Treasury Department, meaning he can no longer travel to the US.
Source: The Washington Post,NPR
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June 3-7, 2016: The son of a prominent Russian real estate developer reaches out to Donald Trump Jr. promising incriminating information about Hillary Clinton.
Russian real estate developer Aras Agalarov (L) talks with his son, singer Emin Agalarov, during a news conference following the 2013 Miss USA pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada June 16, 2013. Thomson Reuters
Goldstone contacted Donald Jr. on behalf of one of this clients, musician Emin Agalarov, whose father is a real estate developer with close ties to Putin.
In an email, Goldstone said Agalarov could provide "very high level and sensitive information" that would "incriminate Hillary" and was a part in "Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump."
Donald Jr. quickly replied: "If it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer." Donald Jr. and Agalarov then spoke on the phone at least twice between June 6th and 7th.
On June 7th, Donald Trump promised "a major speech about Hillary Clinton's crimes."
Sources: Donald Trump Jr.,YouTube, The Washington Post
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September 20, 2016: Wikileaks and Donald Trump Jr. begin a month-long series of communications over Twitter.
Wikileaks reached out to Trump Jr. to send him the username and password for a website belonging to a "PAC run anti-Trump site."
The US intelligence community now believes "with high confidence" that the Russian government enlisted the help of Wikileaks in disseminating hacked emails from the DNC, according to a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
They published and distributed thousands of emails hacked from the DNC on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, and later released hacked emails from the email account of Clinton staffer John Podesta the day after the release of the Access Hollywood tape in which Trump bragged about groping women.
Trump Jr. responded the following day, thanking Wikileaks for the information, and telling them he would "ask around" about it. He then forwarded the tweet to several senior campaign officials.
A few weeks later, Wikileaks asked Trump Jr. to "comment/push" an article about Hillary Clinton, which he did. Trump Jr. then inquired about a unpublished leak referenced in one of of Stone's tweets.
On October 12th, Wikileaks requested that Trump Jr. tell his father to tweet out links to Wikileaks stories, which he did.
The messages between Trump Jr. and Wikileaks were turned over to congressional investigators.
Source:The Atlantic, The Office of the Director of National Intelligence
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JD 高丹
September-October 2016: Trump national security advisor JD Gordon communicates with Maria Butina, an accused Russian spy.
Maria Butina, 29, was charged in July 2018 with espionage on behalf of Russia. AP Photo
The Trump campaign's then-national security director JD Gordon had some social interactions with gun rights activist Maria Butina, who was indicted on charges of being a Russian spy in July 2018.
Gordon, a former Pentagon spokesman, met Butina at multiple Republican party events and communicated with her over email before Trump's election in September and October 2016, according to emails reviewed by the Washington Post.
The emails involved discussions of US-Russia relations and some social invitations, in which Gordon invited Butina to a Styx concert, and then to his birthday party.
Prosecutors in Washington, DC are alleging that Butina, 29, infiltrated American right-wing circles and organizations such as the National Rifle Association, to advance Russian government interests without registering as a foreign agent, as is required by US law.
In a statement to the Post, Gordon called the Butina story "sensationalized clickbait," and denied any wrongdoing, arguing that Butina was eager to network and discuss US-Russian relations with a number of Republican officials.
In December, Butina plead guilty to one count of conspiring to act as unregistered foreign agent on behalf of Russian interests.
Sources: Washington Post, Business Insider,New York Times
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November 10, 2016: Emin Agalarov contacts Trump Jr. again.
Emin Agalarov, Donald Trump, and Aras Agalarov at Miss America 2013 Victor Boyoko/Getty Images
Emin Agalarov sent Trump Jr. a text message shortly after the election which read,
"Don!!! Amazing run and a glorious victory!!!!! Congratulations to you and your dad, we are proud and happy for you !!!!!! Always at your disposal here in Russia [] Emin and Aras Agalarov@."
The close relationship between the Agalarov and Trump families is a subject of interest by both the Mueller probe and congressional investigations, which are both looking into the extent to which Aras and Emin Agalarov served as go-betweens for the Trump campaign and Putin.
In June 2018, Emin released a music video for a song titled "You Got Me Good," in which actors playing Trump, Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen, Hillary Clinton, Ivanka and Jared Kushner, and even Kim Jong-un reenact some of Trump's biggest scandals.
Sources:YouTube,US House of Representatives Select Committee on Intelligence
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川普兒子小川普同俄羅斯的秘密勾結
December 2016: Jared Kushner meets with Ambassador Kislyak to discuss setting up a communications back-channel between the Trump transition team and Russia.
Jared Kushner. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
A month after Trump's election, White House advisor Jared Kushner and Russian ambassador Kislyak met to discuss setting up a "secret and secure communications channel" between the Russian government and Trump's transition team.
According to intelligence briefings reported on by the Washington Post, Kushner suggested using Russian diplomatic equipment and resources to facilitate the communications.
The meeting, which was not disclosed until March of 2017, was also attended by General Michael Flynn.
Kushner also reportedly met with Sergey Gorkov, the President of Russian state-run bank VEB, as part of the transition's efforts to establish a back-channel.
Such a back-channel never materialized, but the meeting became a subject of the Mueller probe and congressional investigations.
Sources:The Washington Post ,CNN
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埃里克·普林斯（Erik Prince）
Erik Prince, 48, is one of America's most prominent defense contractors. Susan Walsh/AP
In January 2017, Erik Prince, the founder of private security firm Blackwater and the brother of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, met with Kirril Dmitriev, a Russian billionaire and the head of an investment firm sanctioned by the US Treasury Department.
Prince maintained that his meeting with Dmitriev was a chance encounter that only happened because they both happened to be at a luxury hotel in the Seychelles at the same time.
But George Nader, an American-Lebanese businessman who attended the meeting and is a cooperating witness in the Mueller probe, said the meeting was not only planned in advance, but was part of an effort to create an unmonitored back channel between the White House and the Kremlin.
In June 2018, Prince confirmed he "cooperated" with the Mueller probe, and allowed the special counsel's office to review communication records from his phone and computer.
Source: ABC News, Washington Post
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Russian real estate developer Aras Agalarov (L) talks with his son, singer Emin Agalarov, during a news conference following the 2013 Miss USA pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada June 16, 2013. Thomson Reuters
Goldstone contacted Donald Jr. on behalf of one of this clients, musician Emin Agalarov, whose father is a real estate developer with close ties to Putin.
In an email, Goldstone said Agalarov could provide "very high level and sensitive information" that would "incriminate Hillary" and was a part in "Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump."
Donald Jr. quickly replied: "If it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer." Donald Jr. and Agalarov then spoke on the phone at least twice between June 6th and 7th.
On June 7th, Donald Trump promised "a major speech about Hillary Clinton's crimes."
Sources: Donald Trump Jr.,YouTube, The Washington Post
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June 9, 2016: Trump campaign officials meet Russian lobbyists in Trump Tower.
Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia on April 22, 2018. AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov
In what is now known as the infamous "Trump Tower meeting," Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort met with Russian attorney and Kremlin affiliate Natalia Veselnitskaya, as well as a four other people affiliated with Russia in Trump Tower in Manhattan.
The Trump campaign attended the meeting under the impression that they would receive the damaging information about Clinton they were promised. But Veselnitskaya came with nothing on Hillary Clinton. Her mission was instead to prove that major Democratic donors were evading taxes, and to lobby against the Magnitsky Act.
The Magnitsky Act, passed in 2012, freezes the assets and real estate and bars entry to the US for high-level Russian officials suspected of committing human rights abuses. In retaliation for the Act, Russia banned US adoptions of Russian children.
Veselnitskaya later said Donald Jr. seemed receptive to re-visiting the Magnitsky Act if his father were elected. Donald claimed Veselnitskaya was there in an unofficial capacity.
Subsequent reporting, however, suggests Veselnitskaya was in fact working on behalf of the Kremlin at the time. A memo she brought with her to the meeting almost identically matched one written by Russia's chief prosecutor.
Sources: The New York Times,Bloomberg, Business Insider
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In this Friday, July 8, 2016, file photo, Carter Page, then adviser to U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaks at the graduation ceremony for the New Economic School in Moscow, Russia. Associated Press/Pavel Golovkin
Trump campaign foreign policy advisor Carter Page went on a trip to Russia to give a speech at the commencement ceremony for the New Economic School in Moscow, Russia.
While there, he met with Andrey Baranov, head of investor relations at Russian state oil company Rosneft, and with Russian deputy prime minister Arkady Dvorkovich.
Page became under investigation by the FBI in September 2016 for pursuing contacts with Russians under sanction by the Magnitsky Act, including the CEO of Rosneft.
After he stepped down from his role in the Trump campaign in fall 2016, the FBI obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to surveil Page's communications. They suspected him of being a foreign agent engaging in intelligence operations on behalf of the Russian government.
Page, however, was never charged with a crime.
Sources: Business Insider, New York Times
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安東尼·斯卡拉姆齊
January 17-20, 2017: Anthony Scaramucci, then a member of the Trump transition team's executive committee, met with Dmitriev.
Anthony Scaramucci. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Scaramucci, who later served a 10-day stint as White House communications director, spoke with Dmitriev at the Davos World Economic Forum.
After meeting with Dmitriev, Scaramucci gave an interview with a Russian news agency in which he criticized Obama's sanctions for increasing anti-American sentiment in Russia.
Sources: New York Times,Russia Beyond
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相關的俄羅斯人物
密斯福德
Alex van der Zwaan
Aras Agalarov和他的兒子
Emin Agalarov, Donald Trump, and Aras Agalarov at Miss America 2013
Maria Butina
Natalia Veselnitskaya
俄羅斯駐美國大使Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador
Yevgeny Prigozhin
Special counsel Robert Mueller submitted his final report into his nearly two-year-long investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia to Attorney General William Barr on March 22.
Mueller's probe into Russian election interference and possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia indicted three Russian companies and 34 people, including eight Americans affiliated with the Trump campaign or administration.
As it currently stands, there are now more than 101 known points of contact between the Trump campaign and Russian-government linked people or entities, including 23 meetings or calls.
Sixteen Trump campaign officials are known to have had direct contact with a Russian government official or a Russian-linked operative, and at least an additional nine campaign officials were aware of these contacts.
Trump campaign officials had meetings, calls, and digital correspondence with high-level Russian government officials, billionaires linked to Putin, an accused Russian spy, and hackers enlisted by Russian intelligence to meddle in the 2016 elections.
Here is a timeline of the Trump campaign's known contacts with Russia, compiled with the help of resources from the Moscow Project and the Washington Post.
下面是我在推特上就通俄門事件的部分評論。
國會要求川普的一些競選助手遞交電子郵件，班農和伊萬卡頓時嚇尿了。班農遞交了幾千頁的相關文件。班農是否將「法制基金」的文件也上交給國會去調查了？
The Mueller report is out — here's everyone who has been charged and convicted in the Russia probe so far
https://www.businessinsider.com/who-has-been-charged-in-russia-investigation-mueller-trump-2017-12
Mueller has submitted his final report — here are all the known contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian government-linked people or entities
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-russia-government-contact-timeline-2018-7
穆勒的報告應該很快就會遞交給司法部長。
且不說穆勒報告的內容，單隻看穆勒調查過程中已經起訴的人：
Paul Manafort馬納福特，川普競選委員會主席
Rick Gates，馬納福特的副手，川普競選委員會副主席
科恩：擔任川普私人律師12年
George Papadopoulos川普競選顧問
Roger Stone 羅傑·斯通， 川普的競選顧問
Michael Flynn川普的首任國家安全顧問，是基辛格在尼克松曾經擔任的角色。
上面的這些人都是川普競選團隊的核心成員，除了斯通正在等待審判外，其他人都已經承認有罪甚至已經判刑。
另外，包括川普的大兒子小川普，女婿庫什納等人都有確鑿證據在川普競選期間以各種方式同俄羅斯間諜有各種聯繫。
川普團隊的前十為核心成員，至少有八人同俄羅斯間諜私下勾結。
這些人如果是沒有大老闆的同意甚至授意，會私自同俄羅斯間諜勾結嗎？如果有一或二人私下勾結外國間諜，或許有可能。
但是，川普競選團隊的核心成員幾乎有八成同俄羅斯間諜暗地裡勾結，狼狽為奸，沒有大老闆的授意和統一指揮，幾乎就是不可能發生的事件。
上述被起訴的或判刑的人，幾乎都有一條罪狀是撒謊，他們都拚命掩蓋他們同俄羅斯間諜的各種聯繫。
他們為什麼要拚命掩蓋同俄羅斯人的聯繫？這必定是有見不得人的勾當，而且必定是曾經有攻守同盟，要統一口徑地掩蓋同俄羅斯人的聯繫和各種交易，他們都明知道這是叛國罪。
這些人冒著叛國罪的風險，去同俄羅斯間諜秘密勾結，而得到的結果就是為了幫助川普成功當上總統，所承擔的風險則是被判刑入獄。有哪個人會愚蠢到這種程度去干這種蠢事嗎？除非是受到川普的指使並且得到川普的某種承諾才會去干這種有巨大風險的賣國勾當。
川粉支持川普的理由之一是川普高智商，會作生意。可一張照片就能證明川普的智商歸零了！
前天，3月21日，川普舉著這張照片，向記者反覆說，上面的紅點標的是恐怖組織ISIS在敘利亞的佔領區域。下面的圖形表示ISIS被統統消滅。
川普將剿滅ISIS完全歸功於自己。
可是，剿滅ISIS同川普有一毛錢關係嗎？
剿滅ISIS的美軍都是奧巴馬總統就任期間派去的，川普唯一做的就是反覆不斷地指責奧巴馬總統派遣這些美軍，以及下令撤回這些美軍。
川普的這種伎倆，就如同將世界上所有死亡的人都歸功於他川普一樣地弱智，將希特勒、薩達姆、卡扎菲的死亡都說成是他川普派美軍予以消滅的同樣地顛倒是非、貪天功為己有！真是滑天下之大稽！
3月20日，川普在白宮有又一次攻擊特別檢察官穆勒，聲稱他川普獲得了很多選票，而穆勒不曾獲得一張選票，一個沒獲得過選票的人居然來調查活動上千萬選票的人。
川普還不如乾脆說，所有的足球、籃球裁判都不曾進過一個球，有什麼權力對場上球員給紅牌，將參賽隊員罰下場啊？
穆勒調查川普團隊通俄門的報告終於完成了。可是，尚未看到穆勒報告之前，一些川粉就開始歡呼勝利了，說川普又贏了。
陸東自稱是當今世界最最超前的預言家、陰謀家，居然就閉著眼睛宣布川普勝利了。陸東能將自己混成一個鐵桿郭粉加鐵桿川粉，那就是雙倍的鐵桿腦殘嘛。
現在人們爭論的焦點是通俄門事件究竟是否存在。
穆勒報告中已經匯總了7名川普競選團隊重要成員被起訴、被判刑，分別是上面列出的科恩、馬納福特、菲林、斯通、Gates、Papadopoulos等人，這些人都被坐實秘密勾結俄羅斯間諜來干涉美國大選，幫助川普成功競選總統。他們還都有一條罪名：撒謊！
他們為什麼撒謊？撒了哪些謊？
他們首先是否認同俄羅斯間諜有聯繫，這是被證明撒謊。
其實，他們最最主要的撒謊是拒不講出受誰指使去勾結俄羅斯間諜。
另外，川普的兒子、女婿庫什納都在川普大廈同俄羅斯間諜有秘密會晤。科恩在國會作證時已經交待了川普兒子同川普低聲耳語：一切都安排好了。
川普當時就對他兒子說：隨時向我彙報。
川普競選團隊中除了被起訴的七人外，其他的重要成員就是川普、彭斯、班農、康維、庫什納、小川普、伊萬卡。在這14人中，只有彭斯和康維不曾同俄羅斯間諜勾結，能夠坐實同俄羅斯間諜有勾結的有9人，占川普團隊核心成員的6成。
另外，穆勒已經起訴的俄羅斯方面同川普團隊聯絡的間諜或滲透美國大選的俄羅斯黑客有25人，俄羅斯公司三家。
捉賊捉雙。穆勒調查的通俄門事件，已經抓捕的川普團隊成員7人，俄羅斯方面多達30人，這豈止是捉賊捉雙，簡直就是捉姦在床了嘛！
就僅僅根據穆勒已經起訴的37人和公司，說川普團隊串通俄羅斯間諜干預美國大選，這是板上釘釘，任何人都無法否認的了。
現在的問題就是：
1. 那些俄羅斯間諜是受誰指使？普廷是否直接給這些間諜下令？
2. 川普團隊的那些被起訴、被判刑的人，究竟是受誰指使去勾結俄羅斯間諜？
3. 他們為何要撒謊？要掩蓋的真相是什麼？
4. 川普團隊同俄羅斯間諜勾結的目的是什麼？最後使誰受益？
5. 今後是否要起訴川普的兒子小川普以及女婿庫什納？
6. 以何種方式追究川普和普京的責任？
7. 川普是否是服務於俄羅斯的利益？
8. 今後如何防範外國間諜干涉美國大選？
這些問題都是不言自明的。
劉剛
2019年3月23日
川普競選委員會主席馬納福特
U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives for a hearing at U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S., November 2, 2017.
馬納福特（Paul Manafort），川普競選委員會主席。2016年4月，馬納福特同俄羅斯及烏克蘭雙料間諜康斯坦丁·基里姆尼克（Konstantin Kilimnik）多次共享俄羅斯的間諜信息和數據。
April 2016: Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort shares polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian-Ukrainian political operative.
Konstantin Kilimnk, a political operative and former member of Russian intelligence, had been a long-time associate of Manafort, who worked for several years in Ukraine and Eastern Europe as a political consultant and financier.
According to a court filing submitted by Manafort's lawyers, Manafort shared campaign polling data with Kilimnik. The New York Times reported the data was then passed onto Ukrainian oligarchs Serhiy Lyovochkin and Rinat Akhmetov, who reportedly owed Manafort money.
Source:New York Times
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April 2016: Manafort and Kilimnik discuss briefing Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska on the campaign's operations
Manafort inquired if Russian billionaire oligarch Oleg Deripaska knew about Manafort joining the campaign, to which Kilimnik replied, "absolutely." Manafort then asked, "How do we use to get to whole?"
The emails between Manafort and Kilimnik suggest that Manafort sought to take advantage of the influence he had from his role on Trump's campaign, which was unpaid, to make up for a significant financial debt he owed to Deripaska.
Deripaska gave Manafort almost $19 million dollars in 2008 for use of the purchase of a Ukrainian company, but the investment fell through and their relationship went south. It was later revealed in June 2018 that Manafort owed Deripaska another $10 million on top of the previously known $19 million.
Sources:Business Insider,The Atlantic,
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July 7, 2016: Manafort offers "private briefings" on the campaign to the Kremlin-linked oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
The Washington Post reported in September 2017 that Paul Manafort had, over a period of months, corresponded with Kilmnik on the subject of giving "private briefings" on the Trump campaign to Deripaska, the oligarch to whom Manafort owed tens of millions of dollars.
The emails, which were subsequently turned over to both Special Counsel Mueller's office and to congressional investigators, don't show proof that Deripaska was made aware of the offer or that any private meetings or briefings actually occurred.
Manafort was sentenced to a total of seven and a half years in federal prison earlier this month after facing two multi-count federal indictments charging him with numerous crimes related to fraud and obstruction of justice.
Neither set of charges were explicitly related to the Trump's campaign's communications with Russia, and revolve mostly around Manafort's decades of working on behalf of Eastern European governments.
Manafort went to trial and was convicted on 8 charges of tax and bank fraud in the Eastern District of Virginia in August 2018. He entered into a plea agreement with Mueller ahead of his second trial - but the deal fell apart when Mueller accused Manafort of lying in his conversations with investigators.
Source:Business Insider, Washington Post,Business Insider
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August 2016: Manafort and Kilimnik have more meetings.
Manafort and Kilimnik agreed to meet in New York twice, and they reportedly did so in early August. The meeting became a subject of interest to investigators, but Kilimnik maintained it was to discuss private matters and had nothing to do with politics or the campaign.
On August 14th, The New York Times published a story revealing Manafort had been secretly paid millions of dollars off the books by Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovych's party.
Soon after, the Associated Press reported that Manafort's political consulting firm had carried out lobbying on behalf of Yanukovych's party in the US, but hadn't registered as a foreign agent with the State Department.
Manafort formally resigned from the Trump campaign on August 19th. His close aide and deputy Rick Gates remained on staff.
Sources: Associated Press, New York Times,Washington Post
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Michael Flynn川普的首任國家安全顧問，是基辛格在尼克松曾經擔任的角色。
December 22, 2016: Gen. Michael Flynn, a national security advisor on Trump's campaign, reached out to Kislyak regarding a vote at the UN.
An indictment filed by Mueller's office in December 2017 revealed that Flynn contacted Kislyak requesting that Russia "vote against or delay" against a UN resolution regarding Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory.
Flynn struck a plea deal with Mueller to plead guilty on one count of making false statements to the FBI (regarding his communications with Russia) in exchange for cooperation with the special counsel investigation.
Flynn has cooperated with the Mueller probe since December 2017, and has not yet been sentenced. In a December 2018 sentencing memo, Mueller's team recommended a shorter sentence for Flynn, saying he had met with the special counsel's office 19 times and provided early — and invaluable — assistance.
The memo said Flynn "provided firsthand information about the content and interactions between [Trump's] transition team and Russian government officials."
Sources: Washington Post,Business Insider
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December 29, 2016: Flynn and Kislyak continue to communicate on the subject of US sanctions on Russia.
Flynn and Kislyak called eachother multiple times on December 29th, the day President Obama announced sanctions against Russia and the expulsion of Russian intelligence operatives from the US in response to Russian hacking and interference in the 2016 election.
The calls "occurred between the time the Russian embassy was told about U.S. sanctions and the announcement by Russian President Vladimir Putin that he had decided against reprisals," according to Reuters.
The charges filed against Flynn by the special counsel's office say that Kislyak contacted Flynn on December 31st to inform him that the Kremlin had decided not to impose retaliatory sanctions against the US "at the Trump team's request."
Sources: The Washington Post,Reuters, The New York Times
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科恩：擔任川普私人律師12年
November 2015: Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen reaches out to Russian weight-lifter Dmitry Klokov in an attempt to secure a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
Ivanka Trump, daughter of President Donald Trump, reportedly first put Cohen and Klokov in contact, according to emails Buzzfeed News reviewed.
In one email, Klokov claimed "he could arrange a meeting between Donald Trump and Putin to help pave the way for the tower."
Cohen then refused the offer, telling Klokov there was an existing agreement to build a Trump Tower between Russia and the Trump Organization.
The nature of Klokov's relationship to Putin is unclear, but he and Cohen exchanged several emails in the fall of 2015.
In December 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty in the special counsel probe for lying about the timing during which the Trump Organization pursued the Trump Tower deal to the House Intelligence Committee in his 2017 congressional testimony.
Mueller's sentencing memo said that "in or around November 2015, Cohen received the contact information for, and spoke with, a Russian national who claimed to be a "trusted person" in the Russian Federation who could offer the campaign "political synergy" and "synergy on a government level," with the Russian national believed to be Klokov.
Source: BuzzFeed, Business Insider
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January 2016: Cohen reaches out to Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov asking about the Trump Tower deal.
The Kremlin has since confirmed that they received Cohen's email, but did not reply. Cohen then called Peskov's assistant on or around Jan. 20, describing to her his position at the Trump Organization and how the Kremlin could help arrange the Trump Tower deal.
Cohen "requested assistance in moving the project forward, both in securing land to build the proposed tower and financing the construction," prosecutors say.
The Trump Tower deal is coming under renewed scrutiny in light of a recent bombshell Buzzfeed News report claiming that Trump personally directed Cohen to lie about the deal in his September 2017 testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Sources: Washington Post,US Department of Justice,Buzzfeed News
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January 9, 2017: Michael Cohen met with a Russian oligarch in Trump Tower.
Cohen and Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian billionaire with ties to the Kremlin, talked about "a mutual desire to strengthen Russia's relations with the United States under President Trump," according to the New York Times.
Andrew Intrater, an American business associate of Vekselberg's who attended the meeting, gave Cohen a $1 million contract for his consulting services shortly after the inauguration.
Source:New York Times
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瑞克·蓋茨（Rick Gates），川普競選委員會副主席
September 2016: Trump campaign aide Rick Gates makes contact with an unidentified person with ties to Russian intelligence.
A court filing released in March 2018 from special counsel Mueller's office revealed that Rick Gates — Manafort's former deputy — had contacts with an unidentified person connected to Russian intelligence while Gates worked on the Trump campaign.
Those contacts took place during September and October of 2016, according to the special counsel's office.
Gates, along with Manafort, was indicted by a grand jury on 12 counts of conspiracy, money laundering, making false statements to investigators, and failing to register as a foreign agent in October 2017.
In February 2018, Gates made an agreement to plead guilty to one count of making false statements and one count of conspiracy against the United States in exchange for cooperating with Mueller's investigation.
Sources:CNN,Business Insider
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帕帕多普洛斯（George Papadopoulos）, 川普競選顧問。在2016年3月24日，帕帕多普洛斯和米夫蘇德在倫敦同俄羅斯女諜見面商討安排川普競選團隊同俄羅斯人見面開會的相關事宜。2016年4月18日，通過米夫蘇德的引薦，帕帕多普洛斯同俄羅斯外事委員會主席Ivan Timofeev私下見面，此後，雙方多次通過電子郵件和網路視頻商討如何安排川普競選團隊同俄羅斯政府機構建立聯繫。
2016年4月26日，在倫敦見面時，米夫蘇德告知帕帕多普洛斯，俄羅斯間諜機構已經盜取了關於希拉里的醜聞，聲稱掌握了數千關於希拉里的電子郵件。這比維基解密泄漏希拉里團隊的電子郵件要早整整三個月！
Papadopoulos, 29, joined the Trump campaign as an unpaid adviser in March 2016.
But from his low-level position, Papadopoulos took on an outsize role in trying to facilitate communications and set up meetings between the Trump campaign and Russia.
One of his main contacts was Joseph Mifsud, the director of the London Academy of Diplomacy, a for-profit college program that was later shut down. Mifsud boasted of having "substantial connections to Russian officials," according to court documents.
Despite having scant credentials or expertise on Russia, Mifsud became active in elite Russian political circles after one of his interns, a 24-year-old Russian woman, introduced him to several high-level diplomats and scholars, The New York Times reported.
Mifsud even gained admission into the prestigious Valdai Discussion Club, a group of foreign policy scholars who host an annual meeting with Putin.
Sources: The New York Times, Lawfare, Washington Post
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April 18, 2016: Mifsud introduced Papadopoulos over email to Ivan Timofeev, a Director at the Kremlin-linked Russian International Affairs Council who claimed to have ties to Russia's foreign ministry.
Papadopoulos and Timofeev exchanged several emails during that period and had at least two Skype conversations, discussing the logistics of setting up a meeting between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
Sources: The New York Times, US District Court for the District of Columbia
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April 26, 2016: During a meeting in London, Mifsud told Papadopoulos that the Russians had "dirt" on Hillary Clinton.
In the meeting, Mifsud reportedly claimed the "dirt" on Clinton came in the form of "thousands of emails."
The April meeting took place three months before Wikileaks released approximately 20,000 emails hacked from the server of the Democratic National Committee, which revealed how DNC staffers sought to secure the nomination of Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders.
The next month, Papadopoulos told Australian intelligence official Alexander Downer about the Clinton emails over drinks at a swanky London bar. Downer then tipped off US authorities to the conversation, sparking the initial FBI investigation into the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia.
In December 2017, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI about his conversations with Mifsud. He served 14 days in prison in November 2018.
Source: The New York Times
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Ten days after Papadopoulos and Mifsud first made contact in Italy, the two met again — this time with a Russian woman who Papadopoulos described as "Putin's niece" in an email to Trump campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis.
The woman, later identified as Olga Polonskaya, has no relation to Putin.
In April, Papadopoulos and Polonskaya exchanged several emails discussing the possibility of the Trump campaign making a foreign policy trip to Russia.
"We are all very excited by the possibility of a good relationship with Mr. Trump. The Russian Federation would love to welcome him once his candidature would be officially announced," Polonskaya wrote in one email.
In October 2017, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI regarding his contacts with Russian-linked people, and became a cooperating witness in the Mueller probe.
Sources: The New York Times, US District Court for the District of Columbia
April 29-30, 2016: George Papadopoulos continues to communicate with Mifsud and Polonskaya.
On the 29th, he emailed Polonskaya again about a potential trip to Russia. On the 30th, he reached out to Mifsud to thank him "for his 'critical help' in arranging a meeting between the Campaign and the Russian government."
Source:US Department of Justice
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Timofeev emailed Papadopoulos again on May 8th to inquire about putting him in contact with the US desk at the MFA.
In the following weeks, Timofeev and Papadopoulos had at least one Skype call where Timofeev reported a "good reaction" to the idea of a visit from his colleagues in the foreign affairs ministry.
In a May 13th email to Papadopoulos, Mifsud wrote, "we will continue to liaise through you with the Russian counterparts in terms of what is needed for a high level meeting of Mr. Trump with the Russian federation."
Sources:US Department of Justice
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May 4, 2016: Timofeev emails Papadopoulos claiming his colleagues in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) were "open to cooperation."
Timofeev emailed Papadopoulos again on May 8th to inquire about putting him in contact with the US desk at the MFA.
In the following weeks, Timofeev and Papadopoulos had at least one Skype call where Timofeev reported a "good reaction" to the idea of a visit from his colleagues in the foreign affairs ministry.
In a May 13th email to Papadopoulos, Mifsud wrote, "we will continue to liaise through you with the Russian counterparts in terms of what is needed for a high level meeting of Mr. Trump with the Russian federation."
Sources:US Department of Justice
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斯通同俄羅斯及維基解密的勾結
羅傑·斯通（Roger Stone）
Early May 2016: Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone meets with a Russian offering him dirt on Hillary Clinton in exchange for $2 million. He declines.
The 2016 meeting between Stone and the Russian, Henry Greenberg, was not disclosed to congressional investigators and unknown until the Washington Post reported on it in June of 2018.
Stone reportedly told Greenberg that Trump "doesn't pay for anything."
In text messages between Stone and Trump campaign communications official Michael Caputo, Stone said Greenberg "wants big &$ for the info--waste of time."
Greenberg, who has also used the last name Oknyansky, has previously worked as an FBI informant but was not doing so at the time of the meeting.
Sources: Washington Post
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August 14, 2016: Roger Stone direct messages Guccifer 2.0, a persona created by Russian intelligence who claimed responsibility for the hack of the DNC's emails, on Twitter.
"Glad to see you are re-instated," Stone wrote to Guccifer after a previous suspension of his Twitter account had been lifted.
After the Washington Post reported that the DNC was hacked by Russian operatives, Stone responded by writing in Breitbart in July 2016 claiming that Guccifer, "a lone hacker," and not the Russian government carried out the hacking.
Over the following weeks, Stone and Guccifer exchanged several messages on Twitter in which Guccifer expressed admiration for Stone and offered to assist the Trump campaign.
"please tell me if i can help u anyhow," Guccifer wrote in one message.
US intelligence officials had long suspected that Guccifer was either a real person linked to Russian intelligence or a fake persona they had created. In March of 2018, that suspicion was confirmed when Guccifer accidentally revealed himself to be Russian security officer.
In July 2018, the Russian intelligence officers who had created the Guccifer profile were charged by the Special Counsel for conspiracy against the United States, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering in relation to the hacks of the DNC, DCCC, and Clinton campaign.
Sources: Business Insider,JustSecurity, Business Insider ,ABC
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September 9, 2016: Guccifer 2.0 contacts Stone again with data obtained through hacking.
Guccifer 2.0 direct messaged Stone a link to Florida political operative's blog, which published Florida voter turnout data obtained by Guccifer in a hack of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
Stone replied, deeming the information "pretty standard."
Source:Wall Street Journal, Business Insider
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October 13, 2016: Stone directly messages WikiLeaks over Twitter. They had previously communicated only through an intermediary.
Stone messaged WikiLeaks confronting them with his "defense of Assange and the organization" on Twitter after WikiLeaks put out a statement claiming to have never spoken with Stone.
Stone previously testified under oath before Congress in September 2016 that he had communicated with WikiLeaks through intermediaries, later revealed to be radio host Randy Credico and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi.
After asking Stone not to publicly affiliate himself with Wikileaks, Stone told them to "remember who their friends were."
Stone, who has worked as a political consultant for Trump since the 1980s, was arrested and charged with one count of obstruction of justice, five counts of false statements, and one count of witness tampering, in January. He plans to plead not guilty.
The indictment charging Stone alleges that Stone made "multiple false statements to [the House Intelligence Committee] about his interactions regarding Organization 1, and falsely denied possessing records that contained evidence of these interactions" in 2017 testimony. Organization 1 is believed to be WikiLeaks.
Not only is making false statements to Congress a crime, but the indictment said that Stone's misleading testimony deliberated obstructed ongoing investigations by the FBI, House Intelligence Committee, and Senate Intelligence Committee.
Source: The Washington Post, The Atlantic
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川普團隊其他成員同俄羅斯的秘密勾結：
賽辛斯（川普競選顧問、後來擔任司法部長）同俄羅斯的秘密勾結
April 27, 2016: Then-campaign advisors Jeff Sessions and Jared Kushner met with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak at a reception before Trump gave a speech on foreign policy at the Mayflower Hotel.
In the speech, which was edited by Papalodopous, Trump vowed to improve relations with Russia by collaborating on "shared interests."
Ambassador Kislyak said he and Sessions discussed policy matters related to Russia, which Sessions denied. US intelligence officials later described them as having had a "substantive conversation."
After the event, Papadopoulos emailed then-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski saying "Putin wants to host the Trump team when the time is right."
Source: Washington Post
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July 18-20, 2016: Jeff Sessions, J.D. Gordon, and Carter Page all spoke to Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
Trump campaign foreign policy advisors J.D. Gordon and Carter Page told congressional investigators they met Kislyak at an RNC event attended by other diplomats.
Gordon said his interaction with Kislyak wasn't lengthy, but Page told congressional investigators that when he spoke to Kislyak, the subject of American sanctions on Russia "may have briefly come up in some context."
Sessions, who spoke with Kislyak after speaking at a private luncheon, originally did not disclose the meeting to congressional investigators.
Just a day after Trump became the Republican nominee for President, Wikileaks released over 20,000 emails obtained through the hacking of the Democratic National Committee by Russia.
Source:Washington Post,Business Insider
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September 8, 2016: Sessions met with Ambassador Kislyak in his Washington, DC Senate office.
Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the US. Cliff Owen/AP
Sessions said the meeting, which was not originally disclosed during his January 2017 confirmation hearing, was also attended by two or three of his staffers. The Washington Post broke the story two months after the hearing.
In March of 2017, Sessions said they "listened to the ambassador and what his concerns might be," and discussed issues such as terrorism, travel to Russia, and Ukraine in the September 2016 meeting.
"I don't recall any specific political discussions," Sessions remarked.
When Sessions' previously undisclosed contacts with Russians were revealed, several top democrats called on him to resign, accusing him of perjury. Sessions later recused himself altogether from presiding over the Russia investigation, much to Trump's chagrin.
Source:Business Insider,Washington Post
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川普兒子小川普同俄羅斯的秘密勾結
Donald Trump Jr. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Alexander Torshin, a former Russian senator from Putin's party and a former senior official at Russia's central bank told Bloomberg he had dinner with Donald Trump Jr., the president's son, at the annual convention for the National Rifle Association.
The White House confirmed they had met, but denied that they dined together. Torshin also reportedly tried to meet with Trump, an offer turned down by Jared Kushner.
Torshin is now accused of directing an effort to infiltrate American conservative organizations including the National Rifle Association and the National Prayer Breakfast to promote Russian interests, traveling everywhere from Alaska to Tennessee in his efforts.
He has since been sanctioned from the US Treasury Department, meaning he can no longer travel to the US.
Source: The Washington Post,NPR
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June 3-7, 2016: The son of a prominent Russian real estate developer reaches out to Donald Trump Jr. promising incriminating information about Hillary Clinton.
Russian real estate developer Aras Agalarov (L) talks with his son, singer Emin Agalarov, during a news conference following the 2013 Miss USA pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada June 16, 2013. Thomson Reuters
Goldstone contacted Donald Jr. on behalf of one of this clients, musician Emin Agalarov, whose father is a real estate developer with close ties to Putin.
In an email, Goldstone said Agalarov could provide "very high level and sensitive information" that would "incriminate Hillary" and was a part in "Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump."
Donald Jr. quickly replied: "If it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer." Donald Jr. and Agalarov then spoke on the phone at least twice between June 6th and 7th.
On June 7th, Donald Trump promised "a major speech about Hillary Clinton's crimes."
Sources: Donald Trump Jr.,YouTube, The Washington Post
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September 20, 2016: Wikileaks and Donald Trump Jr. begin a month-long series of communications over Twitter.
Wikileaks reached out to Trump Jr. to send him the username and password for a website belonging to a "PAC run anti-Trump site."
The US intelligence community now believes "with high confidence" that the Russian government enlisted the help of Wikileaks in disseminating hacked emails from the DNC, according to a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
They published and distributed thousands of emails hacked from the DNC on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, and later released hacked emails from the email account of Clinton staffer John Podesta the day after the release of the Access Hollywood tape in which Trump bragged about groping women.
Trump Jr. responded the following day, thanking Wikileaks for the information, and telling them he would "ask around" about it. He then forwarded the tweet to several senior campaign officials.
A few weeks later, Wikileaks asked Trump Jr. to "comment/push" an article about Hillary Clinton, which he did. Trump Jr. then inquired about a unpublished leak referenced in one of of Stone's tweets.
On October 12th, Wikileaks requested that Trump Jr. tell his father to tweet out links to Wikileaks stories, which he did.
The messages between Trump Jr. and Wikileaks were turned over to congressional investigators.
Source:The Atlantic, The Office of the Director of National Intelligence
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JD 高丹
September-October 2016: Trump national security advisor JD Gordon communicates with Maria Butina, an accused Russian spy.
Maria Butina, 29, was charged in July 2018 with espionage on behalf of Russia. AP Photo
The Trump campaign's then-national security director JD Gordon had some social interactions with gun rights activist Maria Butina, who was indicted on charges of being a Russian spy in July 2018.
Gordon, a former Pentagon spokesman, met Butina at multiple Republican party events and communicated with her over email before Trump's election in September and October 2016, according to emails reviewed by the Washington Post.
The emails involved discussions of US-Russia relations and some social invitations, in which Gordon invited Butina to a Styx concert, and then to his birthday party.
Prosecutors in Washington, DC are alleging that Butina, 29, infiltrated American right-wing circles and organizations such as the National Rifle Association, to advance Russian government interests without registering as a foreign agent, as is required by US law.
In a statement to the Post, Gordon called the Butina story "sensationalized clickbait," and denied any wrongdoing, arguing that Butina was eager to network and discuss US-Russian relations with a number of Republican officials.
In December, Butina plead guilty to one count of conspiring to act as unregistered foreign agent on behalf of Russian interests.
Sources: Washington Post, Business Insider,New York Times
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November 10, 2016: Emin Agalarov contacts Trump Jr. again.
Emin Agalarov, Donald Trump, and Aras Agalarov at Miss America 2013 Victor Boyoko/Getty Images
Emin Agalarov sent Trump Jr. a text message shortly after the election which read,
"Don!!! Amazing run and a glorious victory!!!!! Congratulations to you and your dad, we are proud and happy for you !!!!!! Always at your disposal here in Russia [] Emin and Aras Agalarov@."
The close relationship between the Agalarov and Trump families is a subject of interest by both the Mueller probe and congressional investigations, which are both looking into the extent to which Aras and Emin Agalarov served as go-betweens for the Trump campaign and Putin.
In June 2018, Emin released a music video for a song titled "You Got Me Good," in which actors playing Trump, Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen, Hillary Clinton, Ivanka and Jared Kushner, and even Kim Jong-un reenact some of Trump's biggest scandals.
Sources:YouTube,US House of Representatives Select Committee on Intelligence
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川普兒子小川普同俄羅斯的秘密勾結
December 2016: Jared Kushner meets with Ambassador Kislyak to discuss setting up a communications back-channel between the Trump transition team and Russia.
Jared Kushner. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
A month after Trump's election, White House advisor Jared Kushner and Russian ambassador Kislyak met to discuss setting up a "secret and secure communications channel" between the Russian government and Trump's transition team.
According to intelligence briefings reported on by the Washington Post, Kushner suggested using Russian diplomatic equipment and resources to facilitate the communications.
The meeting, which was not disclosed until March of 2017, was also attended by General Michael Flynn.
Kushner also reportedly met with Sergey Gorkov, the President of Russian state-run bank VEB, as part of the transition's efforts to establish a back-channel.
Such a back-channel never materialized, but the meeting became a subject of the Mueller probe and congressional investigations.
Sources:The Washington Post ,CNN
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埃里克·普林斯（Erik Prince）
Erik Prince, 48, is one of America's most prominent defense contractors. Susan Walsh/AP
In January 2017, Erik Prince, the founder of private security firm Blackwater and the brother of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, met with Kirril Dmitriev, a Russian billionaire and the head of an investment firm sanctioned by the US Treasury Department.
Prince maintained that his meeting with Dmitriev was a chance encounter that only happened because they both happened to be at a luxury hotel in the Seychelles at the same time.
But George Nader, an American-Lebanese businessman who attended the meeting and is a cooperating witness in the Mueller probe, said the meeting was not only planned in advance, but was part of an effort to create an unmonitored back channel between the White House and the Kremlin.
In June 2018, Prince confirmed he "cooperated" with the Mueller probe, and allowed the special counsel's office to review communication records from his phone and computer.
Source: ABC News, Washington Post
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Russian real estate developer Aras Agalarov (L) talks with his son, singer Emin Agalarov, during a news conference following the 2013 Miss USA pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada June 16, 2013. Thomson Reuters
Goldstone contacted Donald Jr. on behalf of one of this clients, musician Emin Agalarov, whose father is a real estate developer with close ties to Putin.
In an email, Goldstone said Agalarov could provide "very high level and sensitive information" that would "incriminate Hillary" and was a part in "Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump."
Donald Jr. quickly replied: "If it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer." Donald Jr. and Agalarov then spoke on the phone at least twice between June 6th and 7th.
On June 7th, Donald Trump promised "a major speech about Hillary Clinton's crimes."
Sources: Donald Trump Jr.,YouTube, The Washington Post
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June 9, 2016: Trump campaign officials meet Russian lobbyists in Trump Tower.
Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia on April 22, 2018. AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov
In what is now known as the infamous "Trump Tower meeting," Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort met with Russian attorney and Kremlin affiliate Natalia Veselnitskaya, as well as a four other people affiliated with Russia in Trump Tower in Manhattan.
The Trump campaign attended the meeting under the impression that they would receive the damaging information about Clinton they were promised. But Veselnitskaya came with nothing on Hillary Clinton. Her mission was instead to prove that major Democratic donors were evading taxes, and to lobby against the Magnitsky Act.
The Magnitsky Act, passed in 2012, freezes the assets and real estate and bars entry to the US for high-level Russian officials suspected of committing human rights abuses. In retaliation for the Act, Russia banned US adoptions of Russian children.
Veselnitskaya later said Donald Jr. seemed receptive to re-visiting the Magnitsky Act if his father were elected. Donald claimed Veselnitskaya was there in an unofficial capacity.
Subsequent reporting, however, suggests Veselnitskaya was in fact working on behalf of the Kremlin at the time. A memo she brought with her to the meeting almost identically matched one written by Russia's chief prosecutor.
Sources: The New York Times,Bloomberg, Business Insider
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In this Friday, July 8, 2016, file photo, Carter Page, then adviser to U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaks at the graduation ceremony for the New Economic School in Moscow, Russia. Associated Press/Pavel Golovkin
Trump campaign foreign policy advisor Carter Page went on a trip to Russia to give a speech at the commencement ceremony for the New Economic School in Moscow, Russia.
While there, he met with Andrey Baranov, head of investor relations at Russian state oil company Rosneft, and with Russian deputy prime minister Arkady Dvorkovich.
Page became under investigation by the FBI in September 2016 for pursuing contacts with Russians under sanction by the Magnitsky Act, including the CEO of Rosneft.
After he stepped down from his role in the Trump campaign in fall 2016, the FBI obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to surveil Page's communications. They suspected him of being a foreign agent engaging in intelligence operations on behalf of the Russian government.
Page, however, was never charged with a crime.
Sources: Business Insider, New York Times
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安東尼·斯卡拉姆齊
January 17-20, 2017: Anthony Scaramucci, then a member of the Trump transition team's executive committee, met with Dmitriev.
Anthony Scaramucci. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Scaramucci, who later served a 10-day stint as White House communications director, spoke with Dmitriev at the Davos World Economic Forum.
After meeting with Dmitriev, Scaramucci gave an interview with a Russian news agency in which he criticized Obama's sanctions for increasing anti-American sentiment in Russia.
Sources: New York Times,Russia Beyond
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相關的俄羅斯人物
密斯福德
Alex van der Zwaan
Aras Agalarov和他的兒子
Emin Agalarov, Donald Trump, and Aras Agalarov at Miss America 2013
Maria Butina
Natalia Veselnitskaya
俄羅斯駐美國大使Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador
Yevgeny Prigozhin
Special counsel Robert Mueller submitted his final report into his nearly two-year-long investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia to Attorney General William Barr on March 22.
Mueller's probe into Russian election interference and possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia indicted three Russian companies and 34 people, including eight Americans affiliated with the Trump campaign or administration.
As it currently stands, there are now more than 101 known points of contact between the Trump campaign and Russian-government linked people or entities, including 23 meetings or calls.
Sixteen Trump campaign officials are known to have had direct contact with a Russian government official or a Russian-linked operative, and at least an additional nine campaign officials were aware of these contacts.
Trump campaign officials had meetings, calls, and digital correspondence with high-level Russian government officials, billionaires linked to Putin, an accused Russian spy, and hackers enlisted by Russian intelligence to meddle in the 2016 elections.
Here is a timeline of the Trump campaign's known contacts with Russia, compiled with the help of resources from the Moscow Project and the Washington Post.
