“Trump” via Gage Skidmore is licensed with CC BY 2.0. This private meeting, however, suggested to the Trump campaign that Moscow intended to aid Trump on the sidelines, and it also signaled to the Kremlin that the Trump team did not object to Moscow’s covert interference in the election. The Trump supporters then stated that her information was insignificant.
As part of that attempt, a Russian agent allegedly bringing information to the Trumps was quickly sent to Trump Tower, where Trump Jr., campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner met with her. was notified in early June that the Kremlin intended to assist the Trump campaign in a clandestine manner. To view a copy of this license, visit ĭonald Trump Jr. Michael Cohen via is licensed with CC BY 2.0. Trump had been discreetly pursuing a skyscraper contract in Moscow that might have netted him hundreds of millions of dollars, and the Trump Organization (through Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen) had informally contacted Putin’s administration for assistance in getting the business. Here are some of the details that were concealed from the public at the time: They were rejecting the obvious while, as we subsequently discovered, concealing what they knew. The entire Trump-Russia situation was a shambles. Roger Stone via screenshot from YouTube at Roger Stone, a Trump associate who claimed to be a source, argued that the Russians’ flimsy cover story-that a Romanian hacker was to blame-was correct. Despite cybersecurity experts’ unanimity that the Kremlin was behind the assaults on America’s election, Trump and his closest advisers denied any Moscow involvement-even as Trump openly urged Russian hackers to target the Democrats. Weeks later, at the opening of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Wikileaks published papers stolen by Russian cyber-thieves.ĭumps aimed at undermining Democrats followed in the weeks that followed. In June 2016, it was revealed that Russian hackers had breached the Democratic National Committee’s systems. He often talked enthusiastically, even effusively, about Russia’s authoritarian leader. Image of Christopher Steele via Youtube screengrab…ĭuring the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump’s connection with Putin and Russia was a hot topic. The Steele dossier, and how it was presented by the media, is really a sideshow to the main event: how the Kremlin secretly assaulted the 2016 election to help Trump win, and how Trump and his team helped and abetted that assault on American democracy.
It is, in reality, a distraction and a diversion. (I’ve been chastised for being the first journalist to announce their existence more on that later.) However, the debate over these papers is apart from the dark and disturbing heart of the Trump-Russia scandal. Certainly, Steele’s memos’ reliability has been seriously questioned once again.
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